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About Me

Kimberly.
I eat cookies in bed and hog all the covers. To sum me up my life is made up of: Aspirations of Peruvian Potato farming. Archeology. Wildfires. South America. Laughing. Animals. Craig. Working out. Mountain hikes. Drinks with friends. Nature. Indigenous Peoples of the New World. Prehistoric fiction novels.
This is all true.
I took this picture at the edge of the world.

"I'm not a Communist, I don't have to be. I just listen to the old country. A man's worth is told by his memory of the ancients, and not just by his modern mechanisms." -Arguedas
You don't understand the sierra. It's another world. Among the towering mountains, beside the rivers which tumble through the abysses, a man grows up with the most profound sensibilities. That's the source of his power. In the mountains, Peru is very ancient. They haven't rooted out its marrow. . . ." -Arguedas
"One may overpower and conquer in battle a thousand times, a thousand men, but yet he remains the greatest conqueror who conquers and overpowers himself."-Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha)
Earth Poems
"I want two geraniums to sprout from my eyes
Two white roses from my forehead,
And from my mouth, a strong perennial cedar
That'll shade me when I burn inside and out,
That'll give me a breeze when the rain drenches my bones.
Pour water on me every morning, fresh from the nearby river,
So that when I die, I'll be fertilizer for my own vegetables."
-Javier Heraud, Peru: The New Poetry
"Of course it must be understood that, where everything else is equal, a man does not perform the same actions if he gives his consent to obedience as if he does not;just as a plant, where everything else is equal, does not grow in the same way in the light as in the dark. The plant does not have any control or choice in the matter of its own growth. As for us, we are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light."-Simone Weil
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My Interests

Peru : ), working out, jogging, reading,wild fire fighting, Osteology, PaleoAnthropology, Archaeology, Osteoarchaeology, genetics, hiking, canoeing, camping, evolution, Giganticapithecus, Shovelbumming, napping, Music, Apes, violin, painting, primatology, anthropology, new age, metaphysics, religion, tattoos, piercings, photography, hominids, horse back riding, snorkeling, laying out at the beach, tan lines, ceviche, aji, good coffee, Smokey Bear, Craig...

I'd like to meet:

Darwin. Raffi. Atahuallpa. Tupac Amaru (1 and 2). Che Guevara. Jose Maria Arguedas

Music:

Voxtrot, Phantom Planet, Johnny Cash, Piebald, Bright Eyes, Chuck Nash, Big Sky,Taking Back Sunday, Elvis Perkins, Ashton Allen,The Get Up Kids, Sublime,Saves the Day, Motion City Soundtrack, Alkaline trio, Weezer,Wilco, Dresden Dolls, most Classic Rock.

Movies:

Planet of the Apes (the original), Amelie, Donnie Darko, Emperor's New Groove, Shawshank Redemption, the Green Mile, Nacho Libre, The Motorcycle Diaries.

Television:

Survivor, Rome, ER, Law and Order SVU, Simpsons, Aqua Teen, Home Movies, Sealab, Futurama, Family Guy, Unsolved Mysteries, Twilight Zone, History and discovery channel documentaries, Animal Cops, American Justice, A Haunting

Books:

Planet of the Apes, Selected Writings of Emerson, Clan of the Cave Bear, Valley of the Horses,Deep Rivers, the Early writings of Karl Marx, She Who Remembers, Animal Farm, 1984, the Visitant, the Lorax

Heroes:

The Lorax, Smokey Bear, Kanzi

The Real Smokey Bear, 1950-1976

The real Smokey in the Washington DC Zoo.

My Blog

Great Timing.

Today was the annual pack test, to get re-fire fighter certified. Its 3 miles, 45 minutes with a 45 pound pack on. No running. I just wanted to pat myself on the back, and say I finished it, in 38:45 ...
Posted by Miss Kimberly. on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:46:00 PST

Crossroads...

Crossroads is a show on PBS...the "Florida Station" This past Thursday I was taped by them for a documentary on Ft Gadsden. It's a Fort on our Forest dating to 1814, built by the British during the wa...
Posted by Miss Kimberly. on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:52:00 PST

She'll melt your face off.

I wrote this months ago...right after the Big Snag Wildfire on the Apalach...I just took forever to type it up. Here goes, my memoirs of a firefighter. "Greg and I continued to patrol the fireli...
Posted by Miss Kimberly. on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:09:00 PST

Bear with me

I know just yesterday I posted a blog saying I saw my first bear ever in the wild...BUT...today I saw my second bear ever! It was in the same area as yesterday, within a mile, but this time I wasn't i...
Posted by Miss Kimberly. on Wed, 09 May 2007 04:58:00 PST

An awesome surprise.

While I was leaving work today...I saw a big black bear in my rear view. He was lumbering across the forest road behind me...It was pretty awesome. 2 1/2 years working in the forest and I finally saw ...
Posted by Miss Kimberly. on Tue, 08 May 2007 07:36:00 PST

Archaeology Adventure Pictures

Pictures from Craig and my Archaeology adventure. Mesa Verde (CO), Aztec Ruins (NM), and Chaco Canyon (NM) http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v231/AmnlCrckr/New%20Mexic o/...
Posted by Miss Kimberly. on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:09:00 PST

Cows dont live in caves...

Probably my most favorite Smokey Bear ad ever. Thank you youtube. ...
Posted by Miss Kimberly. on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:56:00 PST

Jack.

Last week I rescued a cat from the forest, he was scrawny, bony, whiney, and smelled like rotting chicken. I named him Clark, but Lorenzo named him "Blackie", so we compromised with the name "Mr Clark...
Posted by Miss Kimberly. on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:33:00 PST

Take a bite out of crime.

I have been having trouble sleeping, only getting 2-3 hours a night for the past week. I had a makeup exam this morning and got to campus early enough to get the best parking spot I think I have...
Posted by Miss Kimberly. on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:42:00 PST

39:40

Wednesday I took my pack test and passed it with a time of 39:40, where we needed 45:00 minutes to pass. It was 3 miles, with 45 pounds on, no running. Last year my time was 41:31, but I never stopped...
Posted by Miss Kimberly. on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:28:00 PST