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About Me

The following is based on actual events. Only the names, locations and events have been changed.
About me? What shall I say and what is important? If it is not here and you want to know, just ask. It is my impression that I am just an average guy, mostly predictable however often complicated. I love life and feel like I learn how to live it better daily. I am Messianic Jew and love HaShem - He is my life. But me, I am a normal guy who does normal things, I like everyone must answer to a Higher Authority (like the hot dogs ). All in all, He is most important in my life and I am willing to drop anything and everything to follow what He has for me.
My mind wonders and strays in to every which direction, always thinking about something - actually to the point that I often have difficulty relaxing. Maybe I have issues or maybe I am brilliant ? I love my friends and family to no end and believe I am blessed with some of the greatest friends a person can have. My family and friends are a huge part of how I live my life, next to G-d who of course is number one.For work I have a pretty cool job I run the Marketing, and Communications department for a scientific instrumentation firm - it is a good gig and well a nice paycheck does not hurt to sweeten the deal. The job keeps me traveling and busy but enjoying the works makes it much better.
Something huge happened in my life almost about 2 years ago which has re-defined and changed my perception of what life is. Unaware of the of how much I could be pushed, pulled and stretched, the passing away of my mother has taught me many great and priceless lessons. I hope others too will learn from what I went through as I believe is His will. Here are some links to some blogs I wrote which I trust will impact and affect you. Update 08/22/05 Update 08/30/05 A glimpse into our relationship Leading up to When she passed .
Leonard Shelby - Momento: "I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there?... Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different."
Will write more later, for now an ellipse...

Verse of the Day

My Interests

God, my family and friends, graphic design and communication, great quotes, movies, new clothes, Dr. Pepper w/ lemon or Diet Coke with lime, marketing, business development and non-profit orgs who do good stuff.

Pleasant scents, white roses, interior design, pop art - well art of most any sort, Lacoste and Polo, women with a heart for God (I am a guy this is OK to like no?), Jewish food and most any food including in a major way sushi and Thai.

Fall clothes and cold weather, weimaraner dogs because they are so beautiful, getting to know people - I mean really getting to know someones heart, hearing people speak about things they are passionate about, inside jokes, movie quotes and good stories.

I am a proponent in the fight to rid the world of change. Though I sometimes adjust to change well, I do not mean that sort of change. I mean the jingly sort. Coins. I am a big fan of rounding up or down the partial dollar to only use paper money or maybe quarters or half-dollars - even if it means I am shorted a little. I loathe change.

I'd like to meet:

People just like you. It is people who love life and live with passion who I enjoy most. But seriously there are few people who I do not get a long with so say hi, seriously. Do it, what are you waiting for?

Zidane and Materrazzi remix...

I like meeting famous people too...
Photo of Borat and me!

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Samuel L. Jackson and me.

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I really do have some great friends...

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Music:

Music of all sorts from classical and jazz to rap and rock - whatever fits or adjusts my mood.

Movies:

The Big Lebowski is great stuff and well most anything from the Coen brothers... I love most movies but I am also picky at the same time. Movies that are easy to figure out had better have great character development or else the movie is a dud. Movies that can be quoted between friends are great too. Stupid comedy is good stuff (Tommy Boy, Anchor Man, Zoolander and the likes)... oh and sometimes guy comedy finds favor in my book, but only so much toilet humor before is goes flush. Wedding Crashers was good stuff as was Anchor Man, love Shrek, Elizabethtown, Snatch, Rounders and Swingers. Lost in Yonkers is great and as is Gatica (though I am not a huge fan of Sci-Fi). I am a big fan of Thank You For Smoking, Everything Is Illuminated and RKO 281 - if you have not seen these 3 definitely look into them...
My favorite all time movie is A Bronx Tale.
Love the God Father series, Karate Kid is classic and another classic I love is Flight of the Navigator (used to watch that all the time - think I wore out the video - oh good ole 1985 good things came that year).
If you have yet to see it check out The Frisco Kid - Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford is a classic. Check it out... Also Everything is Illuminated was a great movie as well.

Television:

Don't really watch much TV. But when I do it is often CNN or mindless stuff to kill time. The Office is great as is Scrubs. I have a love hate relationship with Big Love and find myself watching Entourage as of recent. Also a huge Sopranos but that is basically gone now. Hmm... yeah that is about it.

Books:

Anything I can get on DVD or audio. Aside from the bible, my daily read, there is not much I read aside from work stuff. But actually, is this question really relevant who reads books anymore? Okay, actually I am trying to read more now, I still find myself not wanting to sit down with a book after spending hours each day reading miscellaneous work junk - but I am making progress.

Heroes:

My mom.

On October 2, 2005 my mother went to be with the L-rd . Her legacy lives through her ministry, work and family. Bless the L-rd for His children and how He cares for them. She will remain my hero and inspiration.

My Blog

Learning the difficult way...

...is sometimes the only way I learn. Have you ever questioned G-d? Ever second guessed Him? What about choosing that you know better than Him? One of the stresses of my job is knowing that when I mak...
Posted by Joshua Isaac Walters on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:01:00 PST

Karate Kid...

So am sitting in the office and see an Outlook mail pop-up from a guy in the office. "Josh, I am trying to answer some question for Howie, can you get me an update on some projects?" I ...
Posted by Joshua Isaac Walters on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:43:00 PST

Olive Oil and My Fathers Blessings...

Kneeling on one knee I sat before him as he spoke blessings over my life. It was necessary and it was awesome. This past weekend I was up in Jacksonville to hang out with some friends for the weekend...
Posted by Joshua Isaac Walters on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:25:00 PST

"The Other Holiday"

So it is Chanukah time. The first night is tonight and I am looking forward to lighting the menorah in my new condo. As an FYI to all of you with XM Radio do check out channel 108 this week which is t...
Posted by Joshua Isaac Walters on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:56:00 PST

To my Messianic Jewish Friends...

So I have been debating about heading to Israel with the Birthright program. This evening I was on the AIPAC website and saw a link to the Birthright website. While looking it over for anything new I ...
Posted by Joshua Isaac Walters on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:22:00 PST

Mother's Day when Mom isn't around...

Today was not the easiest day for me, matter of fact it was rather challenging. I didn't really expect it to be, last year was okay and for the most part other events which remind me of my mom have be...
Posted by Joshua Isaac Walters on Mon, 14 May 2007 10:06:00 PST

What's in your head... not zombie!

So yesterday, the last song I heard in the morning was Psalm 131 by Waterdeep. The remainder of the day, attempts to change which song was stuck in my head were in vein as, I kept singing an...
Posted by Joshua Isaac Walters on Fri, 11 May 2007 06:20:00 PST

Everything is Illuminated

Tonight while unpacking some boxes which have sat since I moved in to this condo over a year ago, I flipped through and found a movie which I highly recommend watching. The movie was called Every...
Posted by Joshua Isaac Walters on Fri, 04 May 2007 08:26:00 PST

What I do not understand...

This evening I pulled a late night at the office and left at about 10 - however why in the world was there so much traffic? Seriously took me just as long to get home at 10 PM as it does at 5-6ish! Cr...
Posted by Joshua Isaac Walters on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:25:00 PST

Have problems?

Your problems, like anything else, are simply an excuse to take our eyes off of Him. JIW...
Posted by Joshua Isaac Walters on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:48:00 PST