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Lychee

If you want to love, you must learn to be patient. If you are not patient, you cannot help the other

About Me



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- - Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. —Jelaluddin Rumi

My Interests

Reading, Yoga, Travel, Writing, Philosophy and Spirituality, Teaching, Learning, Hiking, People (preferably sincere ones), Baking, Coffee, Wine, Words (writing and reading them), Salsa Dancing or Any Rhythmic Movment, New Adventures, Sensual Experiences, Intellectual Experiences, Change and Evolution

I'd like to meet:

People who challenge me to see life differently and go beyond any illusions of limitations in embracing all of life's joys and possibilities. People with heart and soul and aren't afraid of sharing that.

Music:

Love listening to it and dancing to it. Sing it sometimes (though not well). Willing to hear new things. It is food for the soul, so watch what you eat and variety is key.

Movies:

Brazil, About a Boy, Metropolis, The Big Sleep, Cleo 5 to 7, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, What the Bleep do We Know?, Vanity Fair, The Sea Inside, The Pillow Book, Bladerunner, The Princess and the Warrior, The Science of Sleep

Television:

Heroes

Books:

The Alchemist, Letters to a Young Poet, The Kite Runner, Siddhartha, Catcher in the Rye, many by Alice Walker or Ursula LeGuin, Maus, Night, Huck Finn, almost anything by bell hooks, T.S. Eliot, Adrienne Rich, e.e. cummings, Invisible Man, Rumi, Yoga Sutras, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Langston Hughes, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, Nick Hornby, The New Earth, Anatomy of the Spirit, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, He She It, History of Love, The Watchmen, Paul Auster . . .

My Blog

The choice

She is not good at the game, at playing coy. Despite all their complaining of golddiggers and husband hunters, men really don't like strong women. They don't like that she never had to depend on anyo...
Posted by Lychee on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:27:00 PST

Beautiful Chaos

On one hand, sleep, beautiful, deep sleep, is all I can think about.   It is just a thought as this roller coaster jolts me awake just as I fall into a dream.   Or wakes me into th...
Posted by Lychee on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:41:00 PST

My Writer Strikes

My inner writer's strikeAs the writer's of LA picket the studios, so my muse pickets my brain, as if the halting of writing has seeped like a virus into the already weak circulatory system of my writi...
Posted by Lychee on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:23:00 PST

Why dog is man’s best friend . . .

Downward Facing Dog (thanks Roberta!)
Posted by Lychee on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:46:00 PST

Happy New Year!

The last day of the year.  Usually, she doesn't really get the ritualization of what amounts to just another day moving into another day.  Like birthdays, it is not as if we are all suddenly...
Posted by Lychee on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 06:40:00 PST

The value of two cents

"It's about 2% movie making and 98% hustling.  It's no way to spend a life."-- Orson WellesThe fact that out of the entire two hour documentary about Citizen Kane this is the quote that most stan...
Posted by Lychee on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:46:00 PST

Joy, joy, joy

I will admit I have been singing along with Christmas carols whenever I am home for the past week. I started my season with a lovely Thanksgiving at with the wonderful family of Erica, one of the fri...
Posted by Lychee on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:09:00 PST

streram of consciousness from little juliet

Another emotional road-trip, another unexpected landmark piping through my car speakers as I reluctantly drive in the pitch black night, only 6:30 p.m..  My body feels it should be curling up in ...
Posted by Lychee on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:47:00 PST

Meeting myself

Somewhere in the chaos, through the intermittent back pain, through the fantasies of wishing to quit my job, through the incessant feeling of failure, there is the hope, the promise that it is all cha...
Posted by Lychee on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:08:00 PST

addendum to thankfulness

For a good dancer telling you dancing with you is like kissing the sky (even if he continued to rave after dancing bachata, which you do not dance well at all). For huevos ala Colombia with French Ro...
Posted by Lychee on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:37:00 PST