CURRENT MISSION

Getting the most out of this life. Seizing this day.

PHILOSOPHY

The following quotes pretty much sum up my worldview:

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
--Howard Thurman

"There's no need to hurry. You are exactly where you're meant to be."

Joy is in the ears that hear.

Remember God so much that you are forgotten.
Let the caller and the called disappear;
be lost in the Call.
--Rumi, 'Be Lost in the Call'

I have listened
And I have looked
With open eyes.
I have poured my soul
Into the world
Seeking the unknown
Within the known.
And I sing out loud
In amazement.

"Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely and easily into the private property of the speaker's intentions; it is populated--overpopulated--with the intentions of others. Expropriating it, forcing it to submit to one's own intentions and accents, is a difficult and complicated process."
--Bakhtin

“If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.”
--George Eliot

Interests

Languages!: Spanish, French, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Toki Pona, Tsalagi; music, travel, romance, Judaism

• singing
• traveling
• music
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Cursive, Bright Eyes, Il Divo, Shakira, Pitbull, Malice Mizer, Asian Kung Fu Generation, Iron &; Wine, Trampled By Turtles, Pedro the Lion, Jim's Big Ego, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Xavier Naidoo, The Decemberists, The Beatles, Foreigner, The Cure, Styx, Louis Armstrong, Garbage, Rilo Kiley, Starlight Mints, Dolour, India Arie, Jack Off Jill, Obie Bermudez, Damien Rice, Reik

Cinema:
The Price of Milk, The Fifth Element, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Closer, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, Melvin Goes to Dinner, The Neverending Story, Amelie, Labyrinth, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Love Actually, Secret Window, I Am Sam, I Heart Huckabees, Pan's Labyrinth

Literature:
Sabriel, Stinger, Swan Song, Call Me By Your Name, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, graphic novels

Television:
Pushing Daisies, Law & Order: SVU, Wonderfalls, Big Love, Carnivale

Countries I’ve Visited

China

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Israel, Japan, Morocco