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Journal Entry: Fri Oct 23, 2009, 4:35 PM
i could spend hours going through the dictionary. i love hitting on random pages, and looking for interesting, unknown words...finding them is like the salient pleasure of finding the particular puzzle piece you need.

some words are so satisfying, like quondam, pelagic, fumarole, eidolon, effete, austral, helix, pinnace, etcetera. mmmmm.

  • Mood: Zest

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  • Current Residence: grand haven, michigan
  • Interests: color
  • Favourite band or musician: u2, muse, cat power, radiohead, tori amos, regina spektor, lots more
  • Favourite genre of music: alternative/indie/90's
  • Favourite poet or writer: gary snyder, robert creeley, charles bukowski, e.e. cummings, kurt vonnegut, jonathan safran foer
  • Favourite style of art: abstract
  • Favourite game: i play "never use capitalization"...i always win.
  • Personal Quote: "beauty is its own excuse for being" --From "The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Tools of the Trade: notebook and pen

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i am a poet.
i got my b.a. in english from grand valley state university in allendale, michigan.

quotes

"I am still a long way from myself,
but I want to become Me!"
--From "The Young Hebbel" by Gottfried Benn

"Whatever the sky says the river throws it back."
--from "River Town Equations" by Carl Sandburg

"Only the poet can validate him- or herself. There is no other reference or judgment that can give more than an opinion. Opinions are rightly and generously the response an art may depend upon, but they do not determine what it is or can be."
--From "Reflections on Whitman in Age" by Robert Creeley

"Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances"
--From "Meditation at Lagunitas" by Robert Hass

From the novel "The Chosen"

"Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?...I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, THAT is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, HE is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. It is hard work to fill one's life with meaning."

Novel is by Chaim Potok

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Thank you :hug:

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My favorite pictures:
The machine: [link]
Industry: [link]
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You are awesome...thank you so much!! :tighthug:

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"De profundas clamo at te domine..."
-"Out of the Depths, I cry to you, oh Lord..."
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"De profundas clamo at te domine..."
-"Out of the Depths, I cry to you, oh Lord..."

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