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About Me

i like: contemplating my childhood dream of living one day beside a stream in the woods. . . . hot yoga, indoor climbing, hikes anywhere i can get company to travel, backcountry camping on the grand canyon's north rim, a sunny saturday at the waverly farmers' market, hopping on my bike and riding and riding along the NCR trail, the hirshorn in dc, bookstores, poetry, lit. . . the painting or drawing or printmaking studio, the darkroom, coffee shops for sitting reading on a quiet weekend afternoon, road trips, cooking for friends, indie films, live music, etc.i long to jump in the car and explore every little town in road-trippable distance. i want to drive across the country . . . all the way . . . and my latest aspiration is to visit every national park before i die!i'm working on finding a balance between making what i want happen and letting what needs to happen be. . . .a href="http://www.pimp-my-profile.com/"

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My Interests

art (making it, looking at it and deconstructing it. . . . currently finishing up my second photography course. . . . for the final project i'm binding my prints into a book!), hiking, yoga, rock climbing, backpacking, museums, roadtripping, veg. cooking, etc. . .

I'd like to meet:

folks who are up for exploring. ANYONE WILLING TO SPEND A DAY HIKING, especially if you're willing to travel to do it! people passionate about improving public education, who work hard on behalf of kids and who don't think i'm crazy for spending my spring break on the appalachian trail with a dozen fourteen year olds in the snow!BONUSES: big vocabularies, vegetarians and farmers' market aficionados, artists/writers/those who appreciate artists and writers, AT hikers and anti-war protesters. . . . i'd also love to reconnect myself with all of the amazing people i've known over the years but have been missing because i've been too hectic to slow down and write or call. . .

Music:

EcLeCtIc!! currently in rotation: brandi carlile, the wood brothers, amy winehouse, alexi murdoch, junior boys, cold war kids, yeah yeah yeahs, my brightest diamond, chris pureka, feist, kathleen edwards, the decemberists, missy elliott, kelis, alice smith, ben folds, son volt, old crow medicine show, the dixie chicks, the postal service, ryan adams, jenny lewis with the watson twins, common, jack johnson, gillian welch, jamie fox, melissa ferrick, tegan and sara, erin mckeown, k's choice, patty griffin, lauryn hill, erykah badu, nickel creek, luscious jackson, billie holiday. . . etc.

Movies:

the science of sleep (gorgeous!), walk the line, eulogy, big fish, napoleon dynamite, garden state, bad comedies that are so stupid they're hilarious (i.e. the wedding singer, my old school vhs copy of which is worn from marathon re-running!)

Television:

don't watch too much, but i do LOVE heroes and the L word. . . . sometimes the office and reno 911

Books:

i'm into nonfiction right now, especially jon krakauer and various tomes about buddhism. . . HOWEVER, my favorite book of all time is caramelo by sandra cisneros (the MOST DELICIOUS prose i've ever read, and the most perfect description of what it feels like to cross the border heading south!!!). . . also love rumi, atwood, whitman, walker, morrison, and MAGAZINES (esp. backpacker, paste, vegetarian times and utne reader!). . . .

Heroes:

folks who work hard for baltimore city's youth, and who do it tirelessly and without giving up. . . .

My Blog

peeping humping toads, brookside asana, blue herons and dinner on the terrace. . . .

could the day be more complete? hiked today with my bitches into the warm and sunny springtime, a carpet of green blanketing the forest floor and bluest blue sky above. . . . we passed a puddlef...
Posted by calledonia on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:53:00 PST

epiphanies about spirituality (a little too late)

a few crucial conversations of late have brought me to a point of serious realization about the nature of the universe and my place in it. growing up as a kid with a solid moral c...
Posted by calledonia on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:15:00 PST

spelling bees!!

earlier this week george, the ninth grade class president at my lovely baltimore city high school, asked me in the middle of the chaotic ninth grade hallway, between classes, if i would agre...
Posted by calledonia on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:38:00 PST

does objectivity exist? flashback to 9th grade english. . . .

driving this morning to the farmers' market i turned on WTMD and heard a snippet of an interview during which a really interesting statement was made about the nature of objectivity. sheri parks...
Posted by calledonia on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:50:00 PST

on being ellen. . . . the funny story is. . . .

having successfully avoided the stage since my bit part as a red butterfly in the second grade production of "goin' buggy," i signed myself up to get on stage as the fabulous lezzi...
Posted by calledonia on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:42:00 PST

i think i'm in love. . . . a haiku journey in three parts

1. i am in love withthe delicate crunch of youoh spicy tuna!2. your pink, fleshy foldsdripping with salty goodnessmaki in my mouth 3. round and firm on mytongue you are sugary sweetjapanese gumballs ....
Posted by calledonia on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:01:00 PST

headstand, forearm balance. . . . handstand?!

i feel the need to proclaim to the world that i'm FINALLY (after more than five years of yoga classes) working on tripod headstand, forearm balance and (drumroll please) handstand!! i did my fir...
Posted by calledonia on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:15:00 PST

mountains

sometimes, in the bustle of my city life, i forget how much i love trees and quiet, cicadas and crickets, the sharp green smell of the dewey woods in the morning. i've been visiting a friend in ...
Posted by calledonia on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:09:00 PST

a little bit of payoff. . .

so i'm driving home from a crazy-hard yoga class (phil just pushes the limits on handstands, elbowstands and etc.), all re-energized after a long day of trying to navigate my way through more than a t...
Posted by calledonia on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:30:00 PST

dragonfly mating season

in a kayak on the potomac river, d.c. visible down the way, i discovered the joys of dragonfly mating season. totally fascinating how they fly stuck together or sit on the end of a kayak wi...
Posted by calledonia on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:34:00 PST