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kate

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I love photography, music, travel, and beautiful people who can find compassion for those who are least lovable. These days I don't have the strength to do much photography, and my music is a savior, travel.... a far off dream to escape to. People fascinate me and I am an ardent observer of those around me. I am so blessed, blessed with the strength of mind and soul to heal my body, to fight this disease and to reclaim me life, even if it isn't the same life. Every day I dream, wonder, imagine what wonders and unknown pleasures and friends and love this new life will bring, I struggle with a newly diagnosed intense medical condition that is the most painful of all the chronic pain conditions. (Google the disease... RSD or Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy for more info if you care to) I am working to regain the ability to walk, working to release the tears of pain and disappointment and build on the positive healing energy that surrounds me. When I lose sight of that healing energy, my friends hold onto it and remind me its always there... all I have to do is remember what I have known all along (thanks Nydia- love you!) and know that I have the strength for this. I am a survivor!!! And I have survived more difficult things than this, so I will get past this and it will be a memory and lessons learned in patience and compassion someday. But my mind can't let go of the possibility that this may ruin my life forever. It is summer time and the power of life is blooming all around in the the trees blowing in the wind, the flowers opening their delicate petals to the world. I still know that this is a wonderful life. I used to say here: If you havent seen the trees blowing and bending, or a flower brave enough to blossom, or a young child's smile today take a look around and take in some of the beauty around you. This is still true and I work each day to overcome the pain of my physical body to find my way back to the beauty of a sensual flower growing silently, unnoticed on a vine just outside my front door. Please don't feel sorry for me, or worry.... This is meant to be and I will find the beauty in it, the lessons to learn, and the wonders of the new life, the new adventure I am embarking on.

My Interests

Music, Dancing, Permaculture, Gardening, Harm Reduction in America's Drug Policy (ASK ME MORE!!!), advocating for chronic pain patients to get adequate, compassionate treatment.

I'd like to meet:

Who would I like to meet I dont know. I have so many wonderful people in my life I am sure I have met all those I would like to meet... but in the spirit of the question: Thich Nhat Hanh, Jesus,and everyone who has survived their own life crashing down around them, and rebuilt a new and more beautiful one in its place once the tears and pain of the loss eased. I have done this and now I will do it again. I would love to have companions walking this same difficult but beautiful road. Who knows what lies around the next corner

Music:

in no particular order: Pink Floyd, the Dead, Social Distortion, Janis Joplin, Amos Lee, Bob Dylan, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Panic, Bob Marley, Guns n Roses, Taj Mahal, Sublime, Blind Melon, Warren Haynes, Tom Petty, SCI, Tool, APC, Velvet Underground, Carole King, Joan Baez, Jones, Ben Harper, Black Crowes, Billie Holiday, Rebirth Brass, Papa Grows Funk, Ani DiFranco, Tori Amos, Rage, Willie Nelson, Distempered.

Movies:

Requiem For a Dream, a Beautiful Mind, Pi, Maria Full of Grace, City of God, What the Bleep?, and Contact.

Television:

Well, after a few months without TV I have detoxed from this mind numbing drug. I actually find it difficult to watch TV now, even though it is available.

Books:

Stranger in A Strange Land, Peace is Every Step, Mists of Avalon.

Heroes:

All those working to save the lives of those who are addicted to drugs, anyone with chronic pain who chooses not to give up, and most of all- MY MOM.

My Blog

women rock!

For all the people who have asked if there is anything they can for me, I have a favor to ask. Music is so healing and soothing for me, and I am embarking a mission to heal myself physically and emoti...
Posted by kate on Mon, 12 May 2008 07:33:00 PST

The future is in New Orleans (maybe)

I have decided it is time to start looking to the future again. I will be brave enough to start planning my life again, even if I have NO idea what that life will be like. In the end, does it really m...
Posted by kate on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:28:00 PST

Passion flowers and healing

Hope is not of the future, or the present, it is a gift of the past. Of knowing what we have survived, what we have been through. This knowledge gives us the faith to hope for a better future.Well.......
Posted by kate on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:44:00 PST

watching life as i know it fall apart....

Im too tired to write much... but watching my life fall apart before my very eyes is killing my soul. lost my job, my apartment, my life in DC, my boyfriend, the ability to drive, my memory...... my a...
Posted by kate on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:40:00 PST

what the doctor didnt tell me

Argh. 6:12 am again :-) Hello from the early morning me that I wasnt sure existed until RSD became a reality for me. But I do exist at 6:00am!!! Who knew? So this morning I learned that maybe the doct...
Posted by kate on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:11:00 PST

Another RSD Day

I have RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) Google it please or wait for other blogs about the specifics of it. Forgive me... its 6:35 am and I have not gotten any sleep yet. The burning in my foot and ...
Posted by kate on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:37:00 PST

Losing our children: Round 3 of the Dallas heroin tragedy

18 dead in the latest wave of heroin addiction in the Dallas area. All were under 18. This is the third "epidemic" in 10 years. The news reports on "cheese" the snortable form of heroin are wrong. The...
Posted by kate on Sun, 06 May 2007 06:18:00 PST

100 about my Top 8

your top eight:1. Jamie2. Sean3. Hunter4. Jon5. Mom6. Hoss7. Sarah8. JonesNUMBER 8: Jones1. HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN 8?Hmm... 2 years maybe?2. HAVE YOU EVER DATED 8?No but he is definitely hot. and tak...
Posted by kate on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:28:00 PST

Learning to Dance to the Music Life Plays

The beauty of this life is that it is full of joy, and pain, and alot of grey in between. I am trying to explore the extremes, without losing all that fits in somewhere in the middle. Thats the beauty...
Posted by kate on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 04:32:00 PST

working woman!

OK, I have been meaning to post a new blog for the last couple days and havent gotten around to it. I have been working for almost 2 weeks now. I move into my place in one week and a day! My new roomi...
Posted by kate on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:05:00 PST