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clara

life is once, and forever

About Me

" ...a day of great rendering thoughts that twist one back to face sudden realities heretofore avoided--and there you are, facing them, like looking into the sun, blinking, admitting the truth."

My Interests

Art, especially Photography, Music, Literature, Traveling, Running, Outdoors, Friends, Family, the Color Blue, the Number 3, Tofu, Fruits and Veggies, Salt, Bourbon, Adventures, Interesting Intelligent People, Always Learning More

Music:

Variety is the spice of life. Jazz, Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Jam, Reggae, Hip Hop, Classical...

Movies:

Really Enjoyed: Breathless, Usual Suspects, Fight Club, Motorcycle Diaries, 25th Hour, Momento, High Fidelity, Sliding Doors, Amelie, When Harry Met Sally, Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Princess Bride

Television:

Try to avoid it...

Books:

Some Favorites: Siddhartha by Hesse, Dharma Bums (and really everything) by Kerouac, Love in the Time of Cholera (and 100 Years of Solitude) by Marquez, Nine Stories by Salinger, the Tao te Ching translated by Stephen Mitchell, House of Spirits by Allende, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

Heroes:

The Dalai Lama. FDR. Also greatly admire/am influenced by: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Georgia O'Keefe, Walker Evans, Michelangelo, Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac.