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Adina

We design our lives through the power of choices

About Me



That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.- from "The Bridge Across Forever"

My Interests

Web/Graphic Design, Photography, Travelling, Reading, People, Nature, Sports (Soccer, Basketball, Badminton), Ballroom Dancing, Philosophy, Europe, History, Arts

Music:

classical, rock and roll, rock, jazz/blues, world...pretty much everything except hip hop, rap and hard rockEnya, Enigma, Era, Yanni...so new age music as well.

Movies:

Forrest Gump, The Sixth Sense, Pay It Forward, The Forgotten, The Band of Brothers...love war movies (WWII especially)

Television:

HGTV, Discovery

Books:

Siddartha (Herman Hesse) Illusions (Richard Bach) The Alchemist (Paolo Coelho)

My Blog

Oregon Trip Photos

Oregon Coasthttp://picasaweb.google.com/adinax99/OregonCoast_Sep200 7Columbia River Gorgehttp://picasaweb.google.com/adinax99/OregonColumbiaRive rGorge_Sep2007Mt. Hoodhttp://picasaweb.google.com/adinax9...
Posted by Adina on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:24:00 PST

Spectrum of Love - by Walter Rinder

Someone introduced me to this "essay"....and I very much like it...------------------------------------------------------- --------------------There is a much greater motivation than simply my spoken w...
Posted by Adina on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:50:00 PST

My naturalization/citizenship oath ceremony

800 sworn in as citizens in huge Chandler ceremony[...] Nearly 800 people from more than 80 countries sworn in as citizens in Arizona's largest naturalization ceremony ever.http://www.azcentral.com/co...
Posted by Adina on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:20:00 PST

A Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime

A Reason, a Season, or a LifetimePeople come into your life for a reason, a season, ora lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, youwill know what to do for each person.When someone is in your l...
Posted by Adina on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:44:00 PST

ROmanian Poem - Translated

Mihai Eminescu And If... And if the branches tap my pane And the poplars whisper nightly, It is to make me dream again I hold you to me tightly. And if the stars shine on the pond ...
Posted by Adina on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:05:00 PST

Thoughts on Friendship

If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome t...
Posted by Adina on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:09:00 PST

What Is Essential Is Invisible to the Eye

"I am a fox," said the fox."Come and play with me," proposed the little prince. "I am so unhappy." "I cannot play with you," the fox said. "I am not tamed." "Ah! Please excuse me," said the little pri...
Posted by Adina on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 02:22:00 PST

Ideas on Love

"At that moment it seemed to him that the time stood still [...]. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and a silence, he learned the most important par...
Posted by Adina on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:42:00 PST

The Secret of Happiness

A certain shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happiness from the wisest man in the world. The lad wandered through the desert for forty days, and finally came upon a beautiful castle,...
Posted by Adina on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:02:00 PST