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JenJen

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About Me

Some quotes to share: *** **A mind, stretched by a new experience, can never go back to it's old dimensions.-Oliver Wendell Holmes**"You can't just say I love you, you have to live I love you.~Ben Harper** "Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." ~Doris Mortman ***"Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need." -J.K. Jerome***"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." -Les Brown ***"Don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice." -Steve Jobs***"Be who you are, live what you love!"***"Life isn't about finding yourself- it's about creating yourself." -unknown***"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet." -Roger Miller***"Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that." -Rumi***"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." -Joseph Campbell***"Those with open arms have open hands." -Rumi **"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character." -Emerson*****"Tell me what you plan to do with your one wild and precious life." -Mary Oliver ***"It's not what you do, but where you are inside yourself when you're doing it."***"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity of a worthy purpose.**“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” –Maya Angelou** **"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events;small minds discuss people. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. -Eleanor Roosevelt****“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want” –Lao Tzu** **To love someone is to learn the song in their heart and to sing it back to them when they have forgotten the words."** **"Don't hide your heart but reveal it, So that mine might be revealed, and I might accept what I am capable of."-Rumi **"One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful, even if it is only a floating ash." -- Norman Maclean** *"Happiness is a butterfly, when pursued it will flutter about, yet when you sit quietly it will alight upon you."***"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail." **"Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around you in awareness." -Ross Hersey ***"It's not what you are looking at, it's how you see it."-Henry David Thoreau *** ***"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. -Edgar Degas***"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Ghandi***"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure." -Joseph Campbell***"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."-Henry Van Dyke **"We don't stop hiking because we grow old, we grow old because we stop hiking." ~Finis Mitchell **“There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few that will catch your heart. Pursue these.” –Michael Nolan**“You are alive, and that is the only place you need to be to start.” –Carrie Rainey** **“First ponder, then dare.” –Helmuth Von Moltke****“I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.” –Pablo Neruda***"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." -Van Gogh**

My Interests

Spending time with my dog Vada, Surfing, backpacking, biking, kayaking, canoeing, spelunking, skiing, white water sports, fishing, crabbing, shrimping, Art, Drawing, photography, painting, creating something, writing, bookstores, critique a good painting or photograph, studying art forms, discovering new music and artists, traveling, good Quotes, history and ruins, museums, galleries, reading,an everlasting impression, some good quality time with my family and friends, a long walk on the beach, a soothing solo hike, Sleeping under the stars surrounded by mountains, spiritual accomplishments and aspirations that move me artistically and make my heart sing!
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Myspace Zodiac GraphicsDESIDERATA Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. ~Max Ehrmann

Music:

This is going to be long...Alice In Chains, Otis Redding, Prince, David Bowie, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Van Morrison, Bare Naked ladies, Sublime, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Phil Collins, Velvet Underground, Peter Tosh, Bob-Ziggy-Damien Marley, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, The Band, Allman Bros., Led Zeppelin, JJ Cale, Will Hoge, Eric Clapton, Doors, Weezer, Smashing Pumpkins, Zero 7, Sia, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Stateless, NIN, Deftones,Maroon 5, The Fray, Les Claypool, Primus, NOFX, Jamiroqaui, Jack Johnson, John Mayer (yes.. especially now), Mazzy Star, Beth Orton, Stevie Nicks, Dido, Ani Difranco, Melissa Ferrick, Liz Phair, K's Choice,Indigo Girls, Tracy Chapman, Cassandra Wilson, Nina Simone, Sonya Kitchell, Kinnie Starr, Coldplay, Postal Service, DMB, Tim Reynolds, Ben Harper, Kelly Sweet, Joss Stone, Sara Evans, Everything But The Girl, STS9, Portishead, Beth Gibbons, SCI, Morcheeba, Bjork, Gnarls Barkley, Chemical Brothers, Sigur Ros, Syren, Cowboy Junkies, Sneaker Pimps,Citizen Cope, Garbage, Poe, Jude, Frou Frou, Sarah McLachlan, White Stripes, Beck, Natalie Merchant, Paula Cole, Acoustic Syndicate, North Mississippi Allstars, U2, Cake, Bill Withers, Nickel Creek, Enya, Alison Krauss, LeeAnn Womack, Rusted Root, Karl Denson, Jill Scott, Talking Heads, Perpetual Groove, Moe., Gorillaz, Toad and the Wet Sprocket, Land Squid, The Killers, Alicia Keys, The Roots, Robert Randolph, Zach Deputy, Beth Hart, Barbara Gehlman, Jennifer Nettles, Jen Bertaiux, Red Moon, Rosanne Cash, Victor Wooten, Peter Rowan, Keller Williams, Joseph Arthur, Leslie Feist, Dar Williams, Ginny Wilder, Nadia Ali, Sarah Harmer, Jenny Owen Youngs, Yeah yeah yeahs, Scissor Sisters, Bone Pony, Patty Griffin, Michael Franti, Band of Horses, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Bela Fleck, Angie Aparo, Colbie Caillat, Breck Alan, Violent Femmes,Morning Jacket, Black Crowes, String Cheese Incident, WSP, Flaming Lips, Peter Gabriel, Trey Anastasio, Sting

Movies:

Love Pixar and Disney! Anything with great cinematography and story behind it. I love a movie that keeps you thinking and causes you to want to study it further. Some good ones I've seen recently are: Memoirs of a Geisha, The Family Stone, V for Vendetta, Click, Accepted, Little Miss Sunshine, Stranger Than Fiction, Everything is Illuminated, The Prestige, Blood Diamond...

Television:

Not much for the tube... but I do like to watch Nip Tuck, Bones, Adult Swim, The L Word, Weeds, and The Closer whenever I get the chance

Books:

Jack Kerouac, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Mark Twain, Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Paulo Coelho, Walt Whitman, Anne Rice, Dan Brown, F Scott Fitzgerald, E E Cummings, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Dalai Lama, Rumi, E B White, George Eliot, Miguel de Ruiz, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Moriah Mountain Dreamer... "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran...WOW! Right now I am reading "The Power of Now" a book on spiritual enlightenment.

Heroes:

My Grandma & Terry. Artistically thru the eyes of a photographer, Ansel Adams & Stephen Johnson.