I celebrate self-expression in whatever medium, sculpture, photography, music, cinema, painting, textiles, dance, word crafting...
Marcia, my friend in the UK does amazing, dazzling work in textiles. This is one of my favorites: "Renaissance Woman"
Yaxche, Mayan tree of life and our sphere (by moi).
My interests go from macro to micro, from space to the genome. I am into free style martial arts and racquetball. I've traveled throughout Europe and South America. I am partial to red wines, appassionata di Brunello di Montalcino, especially vintage 1990, and also Lambrusco, on account of Pavarotti. I believe that a well-cooked meal (I'm thinking Minestra di Pane) is particularly good reheated the following day (rebollita). Also, as with any good meal, it ought to be served with a Tuscan red wine, like Sassicaia. Long-standing passions are: antique roses, Paganini, Paso Fino horses, and Milan Kundera. I am intrigued by Giacometti, dazzled by Kurosawa.
I am enticed by red Ferraris. After being at Hockenheimring I can say that life *does* begin at 200 mph.
Tesoro mio ha vinto - Barrichello ti amo!
"I don't have to be what you want me to be; I'm free to be what I want" - Muhammed Ali
Music
Rage Against The Machine...so fierce
I am into all kinds of music and I'm constantly immersed in it. From MIDI controlled, propane powered explosion organ sounds to opera and most anything in between if it agrees with my sense of genuine. Off the top of my head: Vladimir Visotsky, Pantera (Cowboys from hell, gotta love 'em. RIP Dimebag), blues (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, BB King, Jimmy Reed, Stevie Ray Vaughn), Waldemar Bastos, Vladimir Horowitz, Ali Farka Toure, Gilberto Gil, Dinu Lipatti, Callas (la divina), Mario Pacheco (Um outro olhar), Carlos Paredes (fado music from the end of the world), Jeff Buckley, Ibrahim Ferrer...
Psychic Tribal Orchestra's "Lizard" tickles my psyche with undulating galactic contrails and disturbed solar winds.
As for live: Kelly Hatcher tears it up!
Hot blues from the heart of Big D
Havana NRG (New Rhythm Generation)
"La fusión es su credo. El trabajo es su fe. Y el ritmo es su milagro." Goes through the soul straight to the feet!
"Don't play what's there, play what's not there." Miles Davis
Movies
Television
Books
Anything by Kundera, Exupery, and my aunt, Irma Prego. But also, and not in any specific order, rhyme or reason: Kesey, Robert Graves, Dan Brown, Vargas Llosa, Tolkien, Frank Herbert (Muad'Dib! Muad'Dib!), Brendan Kennelly, JK Rowling (love Harry Potter and Quidditch), Brautigan, Neal Stephenson, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Vladimir Nabokov (gotta love Luzhin), Faulkner (how could I not like a writer who whipped out most of his books for booze?), Hemingway (writing so clean, pure and simple), Daniel Keyes (Algernon!), Alexander Pushkin, William Gibson, Chekhov (Ward #6), Kafka, Orwell, Asimov, Heinlein (I grok!), Suskind, Anne Rice, Hesse, Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Steven Pressfield, Viktor Frankl, Cavafy (Ithaca!), Sartre (being is becoming), Seutonius, and of course, Thomas Hardy's "The Return of the Native." :)
Heroes
My grandmother, a woman of gentility and grace. She taught me to love words and languages. Continues to teach me to show kindness. I miss her.
Eusthacia's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Texas
Body type:
5' 2" / Athletic
Ethnicity:
Latino / Hispanic
Religion:
Christian - other
Zodiac Sign:
Aquarius
Smoke / Drink:
Yes / Yes
Children:
Proud parent
Education:
College graduate
Eusthacia Finally Friday. Everyone have a great weekend. sending love and hugs. Posted at 12:41 PM Oct 23 view more
"La source de la peur est dans l'avenir, et qui est libéré de l'avenir n'a rien à craindre." Kundera
"You can say anything you want, yessir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend...I bow to them...I love them, I cling to them, I run them down, I bite into them, I melt them down...I love words so much...The unexpected ones...The ones I wait for greedily or stalk until, suddenly, they drop... --" Pablo Neruda
I have an easy laugh and expansive body language. I'm easy going, believe in looking out for the next person and passing good things along. The glass isn't half full, half empty or over designed. It simply is.
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In SOLIOQUIES FROM A HIGH WALL HIDDEN CEMETERY, Duane Locke continues the momentum of his exploration in "Voices from a Grave: Homage to Edgar Lee Masters." He delves in the quest for identity in a complex and thought-provoking way. It strikes both a personal and a universal chord, because it is about one of the most basic desires of human existence: self-discovery. For a book to have such power goes beyond pure accomplishment into the realm of life affecting. After experiencing the soliloquies, the reader is sure to be poised on a rich inward journey. SOLIOQUIES FROM A HIGH WALL HIDDEN CEMETERY is definitely another pinnacle in Duane Locke's staggeringly amazing literary career.
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In "Voices from a Grave: Homage to Edgar Lee Masters" Duane Locke mines a rich vein to a haunting, intensely personal depth. While Masters offers a collection of voices, Locke zeroes in on the exploration of one voice. The revealed verses unfold into a monumental work of truly uncommon power and monolithic proportions. A definite must-read.
I recently had the privilege of reading Pinckney Benedict's story, "Mercy." It will stay with me for a long time. It made me feel that the world stopped being separate from me and as if what I've lost to war and death was graciously given back to me. Thanks Pinckney.
A book that took me on an amazing mythical journey, both absorbing and intense. The descriptions are vivid, the pace never slows down but lingers to draw the characters. It was a most satisfying read that called strongly with echoes of my ancestry.
A book that made me feel deeply and find unique resonance in a character with many parallels to my own experiences:
Pure, mesmerizing intensity. Thanks Paul.
Another book that made an impression:
Surprised me that I could still respond to something beautiful. Reminded me that I could still relinquish control - amazed that it could still be possible, amazed at having been made innocent for a while.
Lately I've been delving into anime. It's new to me and I find it enchanting in an odd sort of way. I watched as many episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion as I could find. When I finished watching the last one, I felt like a child, asking, "is that it? nooo, there should be more." Others I enjoy are "Akira," "The Avatar," and "Inuyasha." So far, nothing tops "Ghost in the Shell."
Hi Eusthacia, thanks so much for all your support on my writing...My new site is up and my first book released, check it out....Today it became available on Amazon....so exciting!! xox Lynda
" A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away." - Arabian Proverb
Hi Eusthacia, I have just released my new poetry/photography book, hope you can take a moment to visit my new author's page and drop some love. Thanks for your support always. You have inspired me to be better and better. xoxo Lynda
There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday with all its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back Yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed; we cannot erase a single word we said. Yesterday is gone forever. The other day we should not worry about is Tomorrow with all its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise and its poor performance; Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control. Tomorrow's sun will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise. Until it does, we have no stake in Tomorrow, for it is yet to be born. This leaves only one day, Today. Any person can fight the battle of just one day. It is when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternity's Yesterday and Tomorrow that we break down.
It is not the experience of Today that drives a person mad, it is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened Yesterday and the dread of what Tomorrow may bring.
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