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Linda

Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do - Bertrand Russell

About Me

"This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

Just another drifter floating through this time/space continuum - listening, listening, listening.

My Interests

current list:
animals
beachcombing
books
camping
candlelight
endorphins
exploration
garage art
gardening
knowledge
museums
music
movies
nature
philosophy
poetry
sailing
seduction
scents
science
scuba
sculpture
swimming
... and so it goes...

I'd like to meet:

Friendly, fun, outrageous, courageous people. People with passion.

Music:

The language of the soul

Movies:

Art School Confidential
Blood Diamond
Infamous
Phone Sex
Strangers with Candy

Period pieces

Books:

Keats
Byron
Shelley
Yeats
Shakespeare
Ballard
Suglia
Hemingway
T.S. Eliot
Wordsworth
Joyce
Burroughs
Beckett
Browning
Nin
Orwell
Poe
Vonnegut
Woolf
Browning
Perec
Steinbeck
Faulkner
Queneau

My Blog

Paradise

Gentle waves and calming breezes;The world so quiet;Smiling dolphins playing, carefreeI do some work to not feel guilty;My world so simple and yet complete;My possessions with me, the anchor stills us...
Posted by Linda on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:38:00 PST

Immutable mutability

words - words with powerpower with wordsresponsibilities not unknowncuts like a knifesmooths like butterwarm like lovestirs the imaginationimagination freeda perfect statetangible expressionexpression...
Posted by Linda on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:30:00 PST

Clinton's Global Initiative and damn the acronyms

I am psyched about Clinton's new global initiative. The initiative has four goals and they are to stop:- conflict- health woes- poverty- climate change.Clinton is appealing to the wealthiest and most ...
Posted by Linda on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:44:00 PST

Actually

Listen to how many times the word "actually" is used in conversation. What a versatile word!  Is it that our knowledge of subject matter isn't factual unless it's modified with this word?...
Posted by Linda on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:29:00 PST

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

We smile, we laughWe show the world our temporary sideThe smile fadesSlowly, insiduously the eclipse beginsLike standing on a crumbling ledgeThe self cannot be containedThe richness of life emergesBea...
Posted by Linda on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:16:00 PST

Molecular collision

it's more than a lookacross a crowded roomit's imperceptible energythe force that turns your headsteadies your gazedraws you closertime slows to haltthe room quiescespupils enlargeto absorb the presen...
Posted by Linda on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:25:00 PST

George W. and Paris in bed together

Poor, poor, rich Paris Hilton. She thought she could beat the system and maybe she will. But she will be setting a precedent that plenty of others will want to follow.Meanwhile, George W. Bush is maki...
Posted by Linda on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:27:00 PST

The Phantom

ubiquitous yet nonexistenthaunting shadowgentle naturereassuring presencephantom friendfleeting glimpsesmesmerizing facesculpted featurescomes and goestrailing dustin syncbut out of tunesanctity in st...
Posted by Linda on Wed, 16 May 2007 06:18:00 PST

What in the Sam Hill....

Possesses someone to randomly kill a bunch of people?  Broken heartBad gradePressure, pressure, pressure (oh please!)Twenty-one people were killed today on the Virginia Tech campus when a gunman ...
Posted by Linda on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:04:00 PST

The children cry

so much pain in this worldanguished criestears streamingcold, hard bedworn, torn clothingugly staresis there any reasonwe cry outwhy have you forsaken me?drink, drugsthe only outletwhen prayer failsta...
Posted by Linda on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:34:00 PST