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Mercedes

a man of few words, afternoon tea by the ocean, a secret, a sunflower, genuinely good news for all o

About Me

Gratitude for the splendor of life, for the peaks and the valleys that have been carved into my heart by a brilliantly disguised Love...Rather than compile an inventory of adjectives that form the boundaries through which I experience you, I would much prefer to discover you and in turn be rediscovered every day, to roam freely in your heart and not the fickle and at times hostile terrain of words and ideas.

My Interests

the flow of life...the present moment as home

I'd like to meet:

In no particular order...

Music:

the Beatles, the Prix, Leonard Cohen, Chopin, Miles Davis, The Sounds of Music, the Ocean Blue, Bruce Springsteen, John Legend, The Pixies, Jesus and Mary Chain, Ryde, Stone Roses, the Association, The Ronettes, Norah Jones, Brahms, The Doors, Ray Charles, Theloneous Monk, Mingus, India Ari, La Oreja de V.G., Ravi Shankar, Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, Jack Johnson, the Police, John Lennon, Van Morrison, Carly Simon, Manu Chao, Pulp, Elvis Costello, Jacques Dutronc...more...

Movies:

immortal beloved, ponette, trust, bleu, blanc, rouge, double vie de veronique, impromptu, top gun, tombstone, the godfather, apocalypse now, lost in translation, liberty heights, the english patient, its not that simple, the bourne ultimatum, the jackal, the karate kid, volver, braveheart, finding nemo, planet of the apes, sabrina, to catch a thief, etc...

Television:

yes

Books:

count of monte cristo, big sur and the oranges of heironymus bosch, experiments with truth, interior castles, the songs of milarepa, east of eden, sheltering sky, demian, siddhartha, the gita, the gospels...more...

Heroes:

Humanity...

My Blog

Courage...

Supernova From Wikipedia Multiwavelength X-ray image of the remnant of Kepler's Supernova, SN 1604. (Chandra X-ray Observatory) A supernova (plural: supernovae or supernovas) is a s...
Posted by Mercedes on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:50:00 PST

in a parallel universe, i am preparing dinner for my husband Leonard Cohen (blissful sigh...)

THE PRO  from the Nashville Notebooks of 1969: I leave my silence to a co-operative of poets who have already bruised their mouths against it. I leave my homesick charm to the scavengers of sp...
Posted by Mercedes on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:17:00 PST

for my new friend and former foes...

..> ..>   Your Laughter  ..> ..>   Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from ...
Posted by Mercedes on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:12:00 PST

Tuesday's Nourishment...

Kahlil Gibran On Love... When love beckons to you, follow him,Though his ways are hard and steep.And when his wings enfold you yield to him,Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.A...
Posted by Mercedes on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:59:00 PST

Tuesdays with Rilke

Memento And you are waiting, expecting that one thing, which infinitely enriches your life; the mighty,  tremendous, the awakening of the stones, depths, turned to you. Dawning in the bookshelves...
Posted by Mercedes on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:07:00 PST

gorgeous thoughts to travel through...

"No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith."J.B....
Posted by Mercedes on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:39:00 PST