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About Me

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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master, If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling

My Interests

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget." - Arundhati Roy

I'd like to meet:

Discalimer: I stole this slide of my niece/goddaughter/most beautiful and wonderful little girl in the world from Monique, her Godmother, who will still probobly be upset for the theft but cannot accuse of plagerizing or sue for copyright infringement because of formerly stated disclaimer.
"There is no Beauty but in relationships. Nothing cut off by itself is beautiful. Never can things in destructive relationship be beautiful. All beauty is in the creative purpose of our relationships."--Ayi Kwei Armah, Two Thousand Seasons
"Our lives are ruled by impermanence. but simply realizing that changes nothing. There is no value in bleak pessimism. The Challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives." -Daisaku IkedaI want to meet anybody who is cool, grounded, fun to be around, and who knows that what little time we do have here on this planet should be spent with loved ones and doing the things that make us most happy. Why wait 'til you die when you can make your heaven on earth. I'm just looking for people to vibe and build with. If you can dig it...Holla.

Music:

All the time...it keeps me sane.

Movies:

So many to watch, so little time...Friday, Life as a House, Batman Begins, Braveheart, SLAM, Identity, Pirates of the Caribbean, American History X, Million Dollar Baby, Goonies, and so many others...

Television:

Def Poetry Jam, Football and basketball games, Rescue Me, CSI Miami, Two and a Half Men, The George Lopez Show, The Shield, Family Guy, Simpsons, That 70's Show...What the hell happened? I went from not watching tv at all to this. I knew I should have never gotten cable!

Books:

The Stand, Said the Shotgun to the Head, She, The Dead Emcee Scrolls, the Improtance of being Earnest, A MidSummer Night's Dream, A Time to Kill, God's Go Begging, Angels and Demons, Da Vinci Code, Living in the Light, Pierced by the Sword, Misery, Hamlet, The Relic, Education and the Significance of Life, the Art of War, The Inferno, The Prince, Things fall Apart...

Heroes:

My father for being the first of his family to graduate from college, law school and provide his family with the type of life that he could only dream of as a child. My mother for loving me and never giving up on me no matter what. My Brother for being the only constant in my life, my best friend, and for stepping up as a man and taking care of this beautiful early Christmas blessing he recieved, his daughter. He's grown up so much this past year.

My Blog

The Sands of Time (an oldie but goodie)

The Sands of Time I grasp the sands of time trying to hold every grain, Absorbing all of its nutrients, soaking up all of the game. The unbearable lightness of being, should not be endured in vai...
Posted by G-TO-THE A-B-E on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:31:00 PST

A case of the Mondays...but a lil' different

For so long, a large part of my identity was intermingled with the rec. I was Bear. Some of the kids and even the parents had no idea who the fuck Gabe was but they knew and loved bear for the way he ...
Posted by G-TO-THE A-B-E on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:40:00 PST

There is no time like the present...

...the future is NOW when it's THEN in all essence." -as told to me by the man himself, CONTRADICTION
Posted by G-TO-THE A-B-E on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:11:00 PST

Sharing my blessings

So I am leaving Waikiki in about 8 hours. It's been a crazy two weeks. Between turning 25 and coming out to Hawaii, I feel like everything is gonna be alright. I was kind of uneasy about reaching the ...
Posted by G-TO-THE A-B-E on Sun, 18 Sep 2005 04:33:00 PST

"Good things may come to those who wait...

But only what is left by those who hustle." -Abraham Lincoln Get on the grind, keep it movin, stay upwards! "It's mine, it's mine, it's mine- Who's world is this? The world is yours!"...
Posted by G-TO-THE A-B-E on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

While I'm here

When I am no longer on this earth, How will IT remember ME? Will those to whom I have fathered and given birth, Carry on on this righteous sinner's legacy? Although you may only live one life, I plan ...
Posted by G-TO-THE A-B-E on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The World is a Cliff

There come points in our lives when we are faced with a cliff, And either you should jump, but don't Want to jump, but can't Or do jump, and plunge. But Sometimes, A gust of wind, the breath of life ...
Posted by G-TO-THE A-B-E on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

?????!!!!!!!!

The power of change, to adapt, to evolve is the greatest gift God gave us. It is through the mastery of this gift that success will come. Resilliance and Perseverance are inherent tools within us but ...
Posted by G-TO-THE A-B-E on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

This is weird, but kinda on point.

Your Birthdate: September 7 Born on the 7th day of month gives you a tendency to be something of a perfectionist and makes you more individualistic in many ways. Your mind is good at de...
Posted by G-TO-THE A-B-E on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Grace

Grace To be in a State of Grace is To humbly accept the knowledge But more importantly the responsibility of knowing That you are capable of overcoming, accomplishing, and surpassing ...
Posted by G-TO-THE A-B-E on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST