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Kim

Your true self can be known only by systematic experimentation, and controlled only by being known.

About Me


Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is
within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
-Marianne Williamson

I've learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.
I've learned that no matter how much I care, some people just don't care back.
I've learned that it takes years to build up trust and only seconds to destroy it.
I've learned that it's not what you have in your life, but who you have in your life that counts.
I've learned that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes, after that, you'd better know something.
I've learned that you shouldn't compare yourself to the best others can do, but to the best you can do.
I've learned that it's not what happens to people, it's what they do about it.
I've learned that no matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides.
I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you'll see them.
I've learned that you can keep going long after you think you can't.
I've learned that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
I've learned that there are people, who love you dearly, but just don't know how to show it.
I've learned that sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
I've learned that true friendship continues to grow even over the longest distance-- same goes for true love.
I've learned that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
I've learned that it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others, sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.
I've learned that no matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.
I've learned that just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other and just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.
I've learned that sometimes you have to put the individual ahead of their actions.
I've learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.
I've learned that no matter the consequences, those who are honest with themselves get farther in life.
I've learned that your life can be changed in a matter of hours when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.
I've learned that writing, as well as talking, can ease emotional pains.
I've learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon.
I've learned that it's hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice and not hurting people's feelings and standing up for what you believe.
I've learned to love and be loved.
I've learned.
- Omer Washington


Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within, by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. - Swami Vivekananda
"Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?" -Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"No...try not. Do or do not. There is no try." Yoda

My Interests

hiking, kayaking, photography, travel, sports
Animals I am crazy about pugs, especially my pug princess, Ebbets. I love all animals in a normal, vegan, non-PETA sort of way!

I'd like to meet:

Senators Boxer, Obama, and Feingold. Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, and people that are genuine.

Music:

I like most music with notable exceptions. I will change songs on here often, and that will give you a sampling of what I like. I dislike with a passion (hate is such a strong word) Celine Dion, Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, and Boy Bands.

Movies:

Crash, Finding Nemo, The Color Purple, The Incredibles, Monsters, Inc., Shawshank Redemption, Schindler's List, My Cousin Vinny, Moonstruck, X, Farenheit 9/11, Hoop Dreams, The Red Violin, Pollack, Frida, Ararat, Prefontaine, Iron Jawed Angels, Milo and Otis, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Secret, Conversations with God
Artists Jackson Pollack, Arshile Gorky, Ansel Adams, Frida Kahlo, Albert Bierstadt, Ansel Adams, Vincent Van Gogh, and many more

Television:

I don't really watch TV. However, I do watch The L Word, The Simpsons, South Park, CSI, Six Feet Under, and Friends on DVD when I get a chance.

Books:

Too many to mention...but some I like are: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, Conduct Unbecoming by Randy Shilts, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Undaunted Courage by Stephen E Ambrose, and anything by Michael Connelly

Heroes:

Eleanor Roosevelt, Anne Sullivan, and my great-grandmother

My Blog

White walls

What on earth possessed me to paint my walls cobalt blue.  Not just any cobalt blue, cobalt blue with sand in it to give it texture and glitter to make it sparkly. Ooooh, shiny. Think Van Gogh's ...
Posted by Kim on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:00:00 PST

Egrets

Today we helped rescue a great white egret that was injured.  Elizabeth volunteers with a wildlife rescue organization, and well, I was a birdie driver. Poor thing just wasn't feeling well, woul...
Posted by Kim on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:25:00 PST