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Grace

just love

About Me

I love being in different places in the world.

I love watching movies, reading nonfiction, enjoying a cup of tea with pleasant company, and supporting good causes. I'm very sensitive and love to help people.

I'm a pretty well-balanced, happy person and I try to create a strong network of neural pathways for positive goals.

I grow kombucha in my kitchen. It just grows and grows layer upon layer upon layer upon layer. If you'd like some, give me a holler.Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

My Interests

I enjoy relaxing in places of peace and beauty, floating in warm water, catching UV rays, traveling, eating healthy food, skiing, kayaking, hiking, biking, reading, listening to music, dancing, looking at and feeling art, exercising, singing, smiling, laughing, being with other beings, and a plethora of other pleasurable activities that cultivate and release positive energy.

Santa Elena, Costa Rica

I'd like to meet:

Positive people with good taste.

Music:

Any danceable or groovable music; hip hop, world, Brazilian, jazz, Latin jazz, salsa, Indian, classical, folk, ethereal, electronica, classic rock, brass, blues, rock, bluegrass, American, reggae, 60's ska, punk, postpunk...the best music, of course, is live music.

Movies:

Short Bus, The Family Stone, I HEART Huckabees, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Barefoot Gen, City of God, The Graduate, Grave of the Fireflies, documentaries, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, What the Bleep?, Harold and Maude, Iron Monkey, Amelie, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind, King of Masks, Once Upon a Time in China I and II, The Princess Bride, South Park, Tampopo, Woody Allen flicks, Kurosawa movies, Gong Li movies.

Television:

I sometimes watch My Name is Earl, The Office, and Dancing with the Stars. Mostly I watch TV shows on DVD (Northern Exposure (great show, but poor finale), Six Feet Under (excellent finale), Sex and the City, Chapelle's Show, Family Guy)

Books:

First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung, Stay Alive, My Son by Pin Yathay, The Little Prince, Goodbye Chunky Rice (comic book), The Good Earth, Jitterbug Perfume, Bless Me, Ultima, Dr. Seuss' art/writings, Chris Van Allsburg's stories, Oscar Wilde's short stories, Autobiography of a Yogi, Dr. Thomas Gordon, Thich Nhat Hanh, Khalil Gibran, The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller, Tao of Health Sex and Longevity, The Tao of Nutrition, Enhancing your Relationship with Yourself and Others (Satir Network book), Vegan Planet (a great cookbook)

Heroes:

People who are well-balanced and level-headed, people who are motivated to act or move, people who get up and dance, people who speak up, speak out, or sing out loud, people who are infinitely generous and loving without putting themselves out, people who are ever-present, people who are patient and let others be, people who actively try to do their best, parents who raise their children conscientiously, particularly those who also work at a job and/or do it single-handedly, people who reflect and examine life every now and then, people with physical limitations who don't make excuses or room for mental limitations, people who don't limit others by judging them, and people who love themselves and others.

My Blog

finally leaving

I've been inside my apartment for six days straight. I didn't even go out to check the mail or take out the trash, nope. Didn't cross that threshold during those six days. And at Mom's house last w...
Posted by Grace on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:46:00 PST

seven days of sickness

I've had the full-blown flu with fever, sweating, chills, everything, for the last seven days! It all started with a minor throat irritation last Friday which progressed into the weekend. Come Monday...
Posted by Grace on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:29:00 PST

Pussy music

The music of men just irritates me these days!These last few days I've felt this way...I've been listening to different music on MySpace, and lots of it just sounds so masculine and it's really irrita...
Posted by Grace on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:05:00 PST

Death Valley "haiku"

Haiku material in unconventional non-5-7-5 format sans any real depth of meaning:Along Death Valley,Bright yellow petals of the desert gold flowerFlourish all along the hot desert valley-encased roads...
Posted by Grace on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:06:00 PST

Self-Realization in Sedona

We head out to experience the power of Red Rock country,aeons of packed sedimentary red earth.Drawn by its balance of clean energy,fresh air, red earth, green trees, and pure Oak Creek,the path to Cat...
Posted by Grace on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:29:00 PST

Spring Break gone

Instead of putting my home in order or traveling for spring break, I spent spring break mourning the loss of that little boy who was in my first grade class last year. The day we returned to school, ...
Posted by Grace on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:48:00 PST

Married, and free to eat and write

After planning our very own perfect wedding in December, after the big day finally arrived and the glory of our two beings melded into one life together forever and ever, and after our weeklong blissf...
Posted by Grace on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:41:00 PST

Capoeira

Last week, I joined Capoeira Centro Sul once again for ginga, meia lua, negativa, queixada, and other fun, body-bending activities. Being in Brasil a few years ago gave me a better appreciation for c...
Posted by Grace on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:03:00 PST

Delta Nove show 6/2/06

Hola!Delta Nove jammed out the ska (I skanked), funk (I did the crazy funky dancing stuff), samba (I samba'ed), batucada (I samba'ed), and soul (I slid) at Vault 350 for their CD release party tonight...
Posted by Grace on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:04:00 PST

My favorite dream

I had this dream a few years ago while I was going through some emotional detox and major life changes. In the dream, I was driving a car in a mountain in Brazil (this was before I even knew I was goi...
Posted by Grace on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 09:53:00 PST