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I am very interested in learning. I like studying the beginnings and endings of things. I love to read (mostly non-fiction). I love to write poetry and fiction. I also woodburn ... a lost and forgotten art form. I like to play pool too.
I'd love to meet His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, A Great Man of Peace and Compassion.Update: I saw His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in 2006 at UB!! It was wonderful looking into the man's eyes and seeing his strength, wisdom, and compassion shine through.Not the Daily $how - Some Write
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All types (except gangsta rap crap and country). My favorites are Irish music, anything by Ani Difranco and Melissa Ferrick. I like the Chili Peppers, Live, and Beck.
Stranger Than Fiction, The Matrix trilogy, The Wind That Shakes the Barley.
It kills the creative process...but I do watch it. I like 24, Lost, Meerkat Manor, and anything on the Discovery Channel about Science and History.
I have over 500 books. The basic genres I have are: Science, Biology, Math, Physics (text books are not included in any of these categories), Philosophy, Spirituality, 18th-20th century Literature, Ancient History, Ancient Sumarian, Roman, and Greek Literature, General History, Irish History with emphasis on the struggle for Irish Freedom, Writer References, and Animal Reference books, and then I have a few fiction books, my top 5 are the Life of Pi (I can't remember authors name), The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue, The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho, A Widow for One Year by John Irving, Roma by Steven Saylor, The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery...ok, so thats 6, but those are my favorite fiction books. Another book in my 'Top five list' of favorites is called Buddha by Deepak Chopra. It is a pseudo-fiction book. It is a dramatized account of The Buddha and how he became Enlightened. He filled in some of the blanks of Buddha's life in telling His story. Its a great book and I recommend it to anyone who wants an interesting book to read. ************ I think reading is one of the most important tools we have as humans. It opens up whole new worlds and ideas to us. Life would be dry without books.
Lately the word 'Hero' has been tossed around too much and over-used. It seems all you have to do now-a-days is get killed and you're a hero. To me a hero is much more than getting killed, it is much more than doing a job and unfortunately dying while performing your duties. Being a Hero should be determined by what the person does rather than what's been done TO that person. Being a hero is doing something extraordinary, something no one else in your line of work, and/or in you situation would do if given the same exact situation. Well, I shouldn't say no one else ... maybe, "no one else, but maybe 1 or 2 percent, not more than that." ** I say this because if a significant amount of people would do the same thing if given the same situation then what makes it so heroic? What makes it stand out? If we give too many people that title of 'Hero' it will lose its significance and power. *** And too often the decision to call someone a hero comes from emotion rather than an analysis of the facts.