? Life and Love
? Family and Friends
? Spirit,Mind,Body
? Laughter
? Big Bear Hugs
? Knowledge & Truth
? Angels
? Art
? Photography
? Writing
? Poetry/Books/Words
? History/Times Past
? Nature and Outdoors
? Animals and Birds
? Gardens and Trees
? Change of Seasons
? Singing/Music
? Dance
? Movies/Film
? Antiques
? Vintage
? Old Victorian Houses
? Windchimes
? Clean bedsheets
? Breezy overcast days
? Candlelight
? Hot Baths
? Massages
? Travel
? Getting letters
? The Moon
? Star Gazing
? Yoga
? Coffee and Tea
? Green Tea Ice cream
? Home-cooking
? Sushi
? World of Warcraft
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"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
-David Viscott
"It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." -Michelangelo
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"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."
-John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me." - Edgar Allan Poe
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." - Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."
-Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
"Respect yourself and others will respect you."
-Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
"What you risk reveals what you value." -Jeanette Winterson
“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
-Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
"I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none."
-Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969)
"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." -Albert Camus
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." -Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
"Some things have to be believed to be seen."-Ralph Hodgson
"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us." -Max Frisch
"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."
-Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
Music
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."-Nelson Mandela (1918 - )
"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."
-Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD).
"Man is what he believes." -Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body." -Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
"A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards." -Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
I love all sorts of music. It really depends on my mood. If you visit my page often then you probably have gotten a taste of what I like and noticed how diverse my taste in music really is. If you want specifics just ask. Music is a passion, there are no limits...except for elevator music. ;)
"There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." - James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." -Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."-Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
"The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession."-Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Movies
I like many movies. Too many to name, in fact. I love Horror movies, but not the cheesy kind!!! I like old b&w classics, musicals like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers or Calamity Jane, to modern day movies like the Harry Potter flicks or the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I like comedies and romantic comedies. I like Sci-Fi movies as well and Drama. As you can see, my taste in films as well as music is pretty broad. It just depends on my mood.
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know." -Diane Arbus (1923 - 1971)
"Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education." -Burk Hudson
"What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better."
-Wendell Phillips (1811 - 1884)
Television
I have all seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD. I loved that damn show and still do! I am really loving Ghost Whisperer. I also enjoy CSI and Bones. I watch Smallville as well and Supernatural. It is hard to find a free moment to watch them though. Free time is hard to find lately. Thanks to DVR, I can watch them later though and forward through commercials. ;)
"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart." -Rumi
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."-Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
-Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." -William Blake
Books
I love to read. I read many types of books from Metaphysics, Fiction and Non-Fiction, Poetry, Historical Romance, and Mystery. I am even known to read books of reference. I have a dictionary and thesaurus handy a lot of the time, because I love words and it excites me to be introduced to a new beautiful word, so long as they mean something wonderful of course. ;)~
The Harry Potter series rocks. The Twilight Saga, The Host. Tuesday's With Morrie was a wonderful book (a must read). Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen will always be one my favorites....I absolutely adore her. My favorite poet is Robert Frost and I also have a special place for Emily Dickinson, Poe, Keats, Blake, and Alexander Pope. As for historical romance I think Julie Garwood is my girl, although there are many underestimated authors in my opinion.
I collect very old books from 1800's and older (the older the better)...I guess you can call it a hobby. I love the look, the feel, and the smell of them. I can't help to wonder who owned them, who held them. Was it a gift to them from their lover? Did he carry it in the breast pocket of his jacket or did she hold it in delicate silk gloved hands? :) I love to wonder about times past, I can't seem to help myself.
"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage."
-Charles De Secondat (1689 - 1755)
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." -Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
-Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." -Luciano de Crescenzo
"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
-Henry Van Dyke
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."-Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility."
-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."
-William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879)
"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
-J. K. Rowling, (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
I have the best little model.
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it."-Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."-Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Heroes
My mom who was a single parent and raised my sister and I the best way she could. My two precious children who introduced me to a love beyond compare from the moment I first held them in my arms and as I watch them grow to the men they will some day be. Rob who is my best friend and loves me unconditionally. People who are brave enough to just be themselves! Anyone who cares enough to take action in their own lives and be the change they want to see in the world. Anyone who makes a positive difference and shows great compassion. People who use their voices for the things that matter. AND...
? Albert Einstein, because he was an amazing and brilliant person.
"All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree." -Albert Einstein
? Leonardo Da Vinci, because he is my favorite artist and he was brilliant, enlightened, and so very talented.
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."
-Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
"To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer."
-Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)
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"This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man." -Shakespeare (Hamlet)
"It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void."
-Jadelr and Cristina Cordova
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." -Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form."-Stephen Nachmanovitch
"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." -George Moore
My motto: "If you feel it, say it. If you care, show it. Life is too short to hold yourself back. You never know what tomorrow will bring or take away. Live for today...live and let live. Be real, Be true, Just be. " ~ALV.
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech." -Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
-Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
I am still becoming who ever I am going to be. I am kind, considerate, and very caring. I am a loyal friend and passionate in my beliefs. I am a lover of life, love, laughter, and nature. I am an artist, a Poet, and photographer. I love to draw, paint, and sculpt. I have also done ceramics and painted murals. I like to design and I love to write poetry, short stories, etc. You can read my poetry in my blogs. I read very often and love it(see the book section below. I have interest in Metaphysics as well. I am really open-minded, but my own person. I am who I am and I don't try to be anyone else. I love to have deep and intelligent conversations with like minds. I like to sing and dance. I enjoy Kickboxing my punching bag and Yoga. I also love to cook. I plan to teach myself how to play guitar. Music is a passion. I adore being outdoors, especially during the fall when the air is cool and crisp and it makes everything smell clean. Every breath is a sigh. I love nature and I try to be active in environmental and world issues as best as I can. I try to do what I can to spread awareness about these issues and do my best to take an active role in using my voice for the things that matter to me. You can be a part of this mission too by visiting my third myspace page at: http://www.myspace.com/Use_Your_Voice.
I love photography. I love to take photos, especially of simple things and everyday people so that people can see the world through my eyes. When you take a photograph you are freezing a moment in time and making a memory that is tangible and can be shared throughout time long after you are gone from this place. A photograph becomes art when you apply imagination and personal creativity to it. I currently shoot with a Canon EOS 30D. I also am currently building a webpage that will feature my many talents (grin) when available. Because of limited time it is coming along A LOT slower than I would like though, so please be patient with me.
I am very creative. I love to create something new and my hands are always doodling at something. I like variety and I like change, so my work can tend to be pretty random. I am always trying to grow spiritually. I like to learn about culture and love to travel. I enjoy going to art galleries and museums. I LOVE antiques and anything old with history. I love anything from the Victorian or Regency era especially. I collect antique books, and jewelry when I can afford them. ;) I love those old antique traveling trunks that lock with a skeleton key. I like to write letters the old fashioned way, with parchment paper and sealing wax. Email is so convenient and trust me I take advantage of it fully, but hand-writing a note or letter seems more personal sometimes.
If you would like to get to know me better or more personally as friends do, please go to my personal profile at http://www.myspace.com/nucha8 (it is also my first friend in my top friends list with the display name "Nu") and feel free to add me, but only if you want to keep in touch. If you only wish to network then please just add this profile. Thanks.
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
-Edgar Allan Poe
"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye -- it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."
- Edvard Munch
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing were a miracle. The other is as if everything is." - Albert Einstein
"Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual." -Nickolas Muray
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without words,
And never stops at all."
-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
-Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
-Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
-Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
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"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
An eternity in an hour." - William Blake (1757-1827)
"Charity begins at home."
-Terence (185 BC - 159 BC), Andria
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." -Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."
-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
"The body is a sacred garment."
-Martha Graham (1893 - 1991)
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? " -Benjamin Franklin
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein, (Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium)
"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself." -Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"Everything you can imagine is real."
-Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion." -Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. -Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."-Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." -Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
" Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -Plato (427? BC-347 BC)
" A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." -Ovid (43 BC-18 AD)
"The best way out is always through." -Robert Frost
"He that can live alone, resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything." -Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658)
"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." -J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."-Voltaire (1694-1778)
"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." -Ben Stein
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."-Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."
-Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." -Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
"The most potent muse of all is our own inner child."-Stephen Nachmanovitch
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter." -Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
"Hope is a waking dream." -Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one." -Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
-Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"Keep true to the dreams of thy youth."-Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." -Charles Dickens
Who I'd like to meet: Friends :)~ Anyone who wants to get to know me for me. People who make me laugh! Creative people and fellow artists...any kind. Fellow Poets and Writers. Fellow Photographers. People with common interests. People who inspire me. You, him and her.
"The wisest men follow their own direction."-Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."-Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Many thanks to our Soldiers. Come home safely.
"Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery,
and today is a gift;
that's why they call it the present" --Eleanor Roosevelt
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11/16/2009 09:00 PM - OZONE HIPHOP ANONYMOUS @ 57 WEST 57 w Pine St OZONE, Florida 32801 US Cost:DOE NATIONS Description:OZONE HIPHOP ANONYMOUS @57 WEST If you are a Hip Hop Head and are fiending for a fix. Then you need to come down to Hip Hop Anonymous at 57 west. Hip Hop Anonymous specializes in the treatments of microphone fiends, needle junkies, graff heads, and break addicts. This is for anyone who has an addiction to Hip Hop. Remember the first step to recovery is admitting you need help. Special guest Phraydoe Peans, independent Hip Hop artist and microphone fiend, will be performing songs off his new EP called Extraterrestrial in collaboration with VJ Grand Master Treez. Phraydoe Peans has traveled all over the country producing music for artists like living legend "Scarface", underground King "Crooked I" and the late great "Revenue". One can find his work on DJ Drama’s Gangsta Grillz: Pimp Hop Introduction. For more information on Phraydoe Peans go to www.phraydoepeans.com. In addition there will be special performances by Hip Hop duo: needle junkie DJ Dizzle and microphone fiend D-Strange, as well as other microphone fiends such as Not Them, Kings Offspring, ShInobi Stalin, and Mygrane McNastee. VJ Varras Tower will also be blessing eyes with his visual show.
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works scent the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls; Historic buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields; Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum; Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way, It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?
Sigo muy preocupada con este tema, y ya han pasado meses...
No comprendo que pretende, ni cuales son sus verdaderas motivaciones, la verdad, cada dia entiendo menos todo esto, pero aunque no me llame y no sepa nada de él... siempre apoyaré a mi hijo incluso en una locura como esta.
Muchas gracias por estar ahí.
Arriba te dejo una img de mi hijo x si no sabes quien es.
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Prayer For A Friend
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I sent a prayer to God today
Because you are my friend.
I asked that He bring your problems
Abruptly to an end.
I prayed for resolution,
And for all your trials to cease.
But most of all, oh friend of mine,
I asked for God to bring you peace.
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 2 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN
Once drove an old sedan, up north, From a place in Sydney to Cairns; Then to Kuranda I went forth, By train, to look without set plans.
I browsed through the trendy market, With fresh fruits of tropical kind; Walked to the creek through lush thicket - Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.
I dined in a scenic cafe; Then, outside, as I wrote for yen, Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey, You go walkabout with your pen.”
Request or question, I don’t know - Assured voices, elderly men. That’s now several years ago, And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.
Video documentation of a performance piece by my friend Nate Kassel who rode around on his bike slapping high-fives to people who were trying to hail taxi cabs in NYC. Enjoy!
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