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Vanessa

I'd like to say it's much simpler than that....but then I'd be lying.

About Me

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take, towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.
T. S. Eliot
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck


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My Interests

I love and enjoy many activities.

I'd like to meet:

anyone...There isn't a set personality that I want to meet. I don't fit any molds so I don't expect anyone else to. You can be anyone you want to on here. So go for it.

Music:

My taste in music is as diverse as my choice of hobbies.

Movies:

I am partial to the old black and whites.

Television:

I edited my profile at SpaceGravy.com , check out these Myspace Layouts!

Books:

Favorite authors....hmmm...Anne Rice, Terry Goodkind, Dean Koontz, Patricia Cromwell, Sidney Sheldon, Terry Brooks, John Grisham... a half dozen others I can't think of right now...LOL Those are the fiction authors.Others...(or at least my more cogent reading)Dante, Spinoza, Descartes, Jane Austen (for those of you who don't know she wrote Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey), Emerson, Dryden, Coleridge (I adore Samuel Coleridge), Francois Mauriac, Rafael Sabatini, Mark Twain, and Joseph Conrad.

Heroes:

I believe in everyday heroes...and they don't have names or faces, but you see them everyday in the grocery store, at the video store...sitting across from you at the laundromat. They are the people you call when your house is burning to the ground, or your car is flipped over on a highway and you can't get out, the people that fight and die every day so that you can sleep safely at night and take that liberty for granted...the people you call when there isn't anyone else left to call.

My Blog

Who lifted my books?

While packing my books...all eleven, heavy boxes of them...I noticed that someone, or a few someones, have been borrowing from the stash without telling me.  All of you know how much I love,...
Posted by Vanessa on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:21:00 PST

WANDERLUST

WANDERLUST And so he set himself to task,Looked west into the late afternoon sun,And saw-Hill shadows growing long,Fingering the asphalt ribbon of highway before him,The gate post moaning against the ...
Posted by Vanessa on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:08:00 PST

ABANDON

Abandon me- For why hold on to that Which suffers needlessly on a whim? Forsake me- For unworthy and dying loyalties Apparently you would claim. Rend me- For sins yet uncommitted And liasions which co...
Posted by Vanessa on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:12:00 PST

In response to your questions...

Okay....I've received like ten emails  "What's a seraph?" This is the best and most coherent explanation I could find and it was taken (copied and pasted) from a Wikipedia article.  And it's...
Posted by Vanessa on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:18:00 PST

MERCY AND THE SERAPH

MERCY AND THE SERAPH "Why do you love me?"She laid a hand against the foreheadResting on her knee."Because it is what I was meant to do.""Does that mean that you can choose not to?"Smiling, she feathe...
Posted by Vanessa on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:01:00 PST

BENEDICTION

BENEDICTION Unlock the door and greet the silence that waits within,Shadow remnants of sanctuary,The ghost of something not there.Once more stumble  langorously into the refuge, Settle myself in ...
Posted by Vanessa on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:42:00 PST

A CRY FOR PARDON

A CRY FOR PARDON If perhaps the sun risesAnd I see only twilightHovering densely before my eyes,Know this my angel, my darling, my love,That the eclipse in my soulWas a burden born before your ti...
Posted by Vanessa on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:00:00 PST

ECHOES

ECHOES And here I've come upon you,Setting silent and still,A spectator in your grayscale world.And I think perhaps you are somewhere else-Yours eyes watching shadows gatherIn the late day dusk alon...
Posted by Vanessa on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:38:00 PST

FOOLS AND LOVERS

Fools and Lovers What fools are lovers,That they may be blindedBy the weight of their own convictions,To be pierced by the thorns of their affections,And sacrificed on make-believe altarsThat disappea...
Posted by Vanessa on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:12:00 PST

A question about heartbreak

I spent some time last night on the phone with a friend.  No names.   And she asks me "Why do I always get hurt?"  My response offended her a bit I think.  "Your expectations are ...
Posted by Vanessa on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 07:54:00 PST