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Haiku

One may live as a conqueror, a king, a warrior, or a magistrate, but he must die as a man.

About Me

From Life of Pi- "I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. ...It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always... The matter is difficult to put into words. For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you."

My Interests

Lime and its green, thunderstorms and lightning, glass, bright shiny objects, far off places, home, weight lifting, triathalons, climbing, road biking, shamanism, astral projection, lucid/dreaming, buddhism, life, death,afterlife, past lives, yoga, meditation, natural/holistic living, glass blowing, welding, martial arts, restorations, revolutions, massage therapy, personal training, large bodies of water, mountains, places i can lose myself in- or find myself- come to think of it, fire dancing, conversations that last forever about nothing, philosophy, little critters

I'd like to meet:

The Undefeated. The Unstoppable.div

Music:

Plush, Global Lounge, Joe Satriani, Damien Rice, Sarah Mclachlan, Pink Floyd, Portishead, Delirium, Tom Waits, Natalie Merchant, Erykah Badu, David Gray, Blue October, A Perfect Circle, Audioslave, Coldplay, Remy Zero, Tchaikovsky, Dave Matthews Band, Social Distortion, Nightwish, Symphony X, Tori Amos, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Semisonic, Jack Johnson, Norah Jones, Counting Crows, The Shins, Seraphim Shock, Tool, Nick Drake, Wilco, Elliot Smith, Guster, Moby, Live, The Temptations, Duke Ellington, Aimee Mann, Tracy Chapman, Savatage, Lacuna Coil, The Cure, Trans Siberian Orchestra, Paul Oakenfold, Tonic, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Dispatch, The Flaming Lips, Cake, Gorillaz, Dar Williams, Soundgarden, Massive Attack, Ra, Keane, Johnny Cash, Aangun, Deftones, Guns n Roses, Dresden Dolls, Oingo Boingo, They Must Be Giants, Duran Duran, Vertigo Deluxe, Frou Frou, Rockapella, Miles Davis, etc

Movies:

Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, March of the Penguins, Happenstance, Ice Age, Garden State, Chicken Run, Lord of the Rings, Big Fish, What Dreams May Come, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Monsters Inc., Moulin Rouge, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Amelie, Finding Neverland, Fight Club, Primal Fear, Spirited Away, Vanilla Sky, Almost Famous, Edward Scissorhands, Beaches, Wizard of Oz, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Legends of the Fall, Sound of Music, weird canadian or british flicks....

Television:

Invader Zim, Family Guy ::mutters something about Will & Grace:: House.

Books:

The Agony and the Ecstasy, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Road Less Travelled, Way of the Shaman, The Art of Dreaming, Girlfriend in a Coma, Body Wars, What Matters Most is How you Walk Through the Fire, Love in the time of Cholera, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Life of Pi, Autobiography of a Yogi, A Confederacy of Dunces, Man for Himself, Escape from Freedom, Blue Eyes, Where the Red Fern Grows, To Kill A Mockingbird, Dreaming in the Lotus, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, The Tao of Pooh, The Te of Piglet, American Gods, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Oryx and Crake, 1984, The Stranger, The Meaning of Life, The God of Small Things, Frankenstein, The Bridge Across Forever, A Heartbreaking Tale of Staggering Genius

Heroes:

My adopted mom. I was lucky to have 13 years with her. My dearest friend Fran, who *lived* every day of his life. Those who accept responsibility for their lives.

My Blog

light shines in the dark

It's hard to stay positive when your body hurts more often than not.  I spent 6 hours in the ER Tuesday night/Wednesday morning.  Most of that time I was curled into a ball in agony.  ...
Posted by Haiku on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:29:00 PST

Musings

Maybe people are just trying not to be lonely.  Even the ones who swear they are entirely fine to be alone or single.  Maybe people really are that terrified of being, dying, alone that they...
Posted by Haiku on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:22:00 PST

Those who live deeply seem to have no fear of death.

Movements ethereal,Cause you to seem to operate outside this realm.Watching the pictures of the passing paradeShadows of a truthYou will find your own place. Acutely aware of the energy that flows thr...
Posted by Haiku on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:09:00 PST

This is the end.

Thoughts and thoughts- all twisting and convulsing in my head.                          ...
Posted by Haiku on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:54:00 PST

Change

For those of you who were not aware, my dad is getting married this Saturday.  It's odd that so many years have gone by since mom died.... I never thought I'd be ok with this, but almost 9 years ...
Posted by Haiku on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:39:00 PST

::adding to the quote book::

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.Author Unknown   When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?Bob Dylan   The ultimate m...
Posted by Haiku on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:56:00 PST

Mad Ones

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but bu...
Posted by Haiku on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:27:00 PST

300

We just saw the movie, if you did not gather from the subject line.  My thoughts, but not necessarily on the quality of the movie- excellent as it was... Maybe I'm masochistic, but the thought o...
Posted by Haiku on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:26:00 PST

f.a.m.i.l.y.

Have you ever realized that a relationship was never what you thought it was, never what you wanted it or needed it to be, and when you had that realization, was unsure of how to find your balance aga...
Posted by Haiku on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 02:44:00 PST

Inspiration.

When I started going to the gym 5 years ago, the women (it's an all women's gym) would, at least a couple times a week, come up to me and say, "Wow, you're so tiny."  ...ok.  great.  A ...
Posted by Haiku on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:17:00 PST