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About Me

"About me:" if you want a real idea, be prepared to invest time. I believe that I strive for feminine elegance, but I simply cannot fit in this box. Verbs probably do me more justice than adjectives or nouns; I absorb, empathize, appreciate, love, feel with and for, reflect, seek resonance and reverberation, translate... It wouldn't be inaccurate to say that I am rather comfortable in the gray areas, to say nothing of working the gray matter. G-d is in the details, and I am in the subtleties, the parts that tickle and tingle. I'm still young, though I have always felt either timeless/ageless or old. While I've spent most of my life care-taking, pleasing, and attending to others, the last few years have blessed me with a greater revelation: taking care of, pleasing, and tending to myself (and in so doing am better able to give of myself to others). The greatest gift of my life has been learning to fall in love with myself, and the trip has been even greater than the fall. The road of progress is infinitely better than the road to perfection, and life is more pleasant when I continue along the former rather than the latter. And I *do* love to drive, just like my parents always promised me I would.
Life dreams... To live life fully, happily, and to enjoy it for all the glory it is. To develop, grow, love, bloom. Help others to shine. To be a stunning example of my aspirations to goodness. To be loved honestly, respectfully, selflessly, unconditionally; to be loved the way I love.

My Interests

LEARNING, reading, talking/connecting/relating, watching movies, traveling, walking, shopping, writing, riding my bike, photography, art... Children, development, psychology... Cats... The feminine, women, beauty... Language(s), translation, culture(s), psychology, science and technology, (international) politics, business, research, industrial supplies... Life and everything it has to offer!

I'd like to meet:

E V E R Y O N E ... At least once. People fascinate me. The spark of life is in each of us, and each person brings us closer to something greater. We all have so much to learn and share - and thus to grow...

Music:

Metal, alternative, rock as categories... G-dsmack, Metallica, Rob Thomas, Linkin Park, Dido, Stone Temple Pilots, Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews Band, Live, Carlos Jones, Aerosmith, Madonna, Staind, Bon Jovi, Matchbox Twenty, U2, Nickelback, Creed, Velvet Revolver... I like things that move, things you can dance and play to, have fun with.

Movies:

Comedy, drama, sci-fi, action-adventure... Well-written, entertaining, thought-provoking, fun, artfully directed... Pirates of the Caribbean, A River Runs Through It, Matrix, Legally Blonde, Walk The Line, Hitch, Big Fish, The Princess Bride, Dogma, The Thomas Crown Affair, Second-Hand Lions, Last of the Mohicans... There are so many...

Television:

I used to watch TV a lot, growing up, then was a huge fan of The X-Files, Law & Order, CSI, 24, Will & Grace, Malcolm in the Middle, Northern Exposure... Of course, I grew up watching quality classics like The A-Team, Knight Rider, MASH, AirWolf, MacGyver, The Muppet Show, The Smurfs, Nancy Drew, The Greatest American Hero, Inspector Gadget... But after I went to Russia, I was broken of television, having been deprived of it for four-and-a-half months. I've never turned on the TV that came with this apartment...

Books:

Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes!

Heroes:

When I am healthy in mind and spirit, I know that everyone has at least some hero in them and I try to find those nuggets. My maternal grandmother is one person I have always wanted to be like; as a person, a woman, she is strong, independent, and I love the way she thinks about, understands, and sees the world. She's amazing and beautiful. She has the most wonderful spark of life.

My Blog

The Heart of Our Faith (from UUWorld, Spring 2007)

The heart of our faith Gratitude should be the center of Unitarian Universalist theology.By Galen Guengerich Spring 2007 2.15.07 "My twelve-year-old was on the playground recently with her Jewish and...
Posted by Sweet Pea on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:54:00 PST

My Credo (A Continual Work in Progress), 22.06.07

I believe that life is the greatest and truest gift. Bliss can be known best in living, breathing, and feeling the moments, by being fully present... I believe that our lives are too sho...
Posted by Sweet Pea on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:07:00 PST

"Why Vegetarian?"

Yes, I stole this from Raynard... THE HUNGER ARGUMENT* Number of people worldwide who will die as a result of malnutrition this year: 20 million.* Number of people who could be adequately fed using la...
Posted by Sweet Pea on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:56:00 PST

Letter to my Grandfather

I wrote this about a year ago, in March 2006. But I haven't been posting much and because so much of my writing goes into my correspondence, I figured it would be just as well to post some of it& Thi...
Posted by Sweet Pea on Sat, 26 May 2007 03:32:00 PST

The Course of a Day [: She Says - in Response...]

(Nighttime...)Thank you for the comments on my blogs... Sort of been thinking about the Peace Corps or something. The one thing that holds me back from something like that is, and I almost hate to say...
Posted by Sweet Pea on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:41:00 PST

A Light through the Bluster

Silence. Ache. Tears.I hurt. It's been a long time since I have felt this way, and felt so completely helpless about my own state of being. The 'why' I have been struggling with for a few weeks now, ...
Posted by Sweet Pea on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:49:00 PST

Prayers for Those in Need

It's so cold outside. We know this, we see the weather forecast in the single (and sometimes even positive) digits, and we might even be strangely enthusiastic about the estimated wind chills, a...
Posted by Sweet Pea on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:24:00 PST

U what? [See also: Principles to Live By]

My spiritual path has been about as meandering as it could be, I think, and to explain a few things maybe about why I do the things I do and am the way I am, I'm going to tell my story...My life up un...
Posted by Sweet Pea on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:22:00 PST

To thine own self be true...

Yet here, Laertes! Aboard, aboard for shame! The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, And you are stay'd for. There ... my blessing with thee! And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou charact...
Posted by Sweet Pea on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 07:32:00 PST

LET YOUR LIFE SPEAK [A Work in Progress]

"The measure of love is to love without measure." St. Francis de Sales "Whatever you are, be a good one." Abraham Lincoln "Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, receives the impossible." ...
Posted by Sweet Pea on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 06:17:00 PST