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Speaks: love, English, Urban slang, Rusty French with a pocket dictionary, body language, some cat
Joined Aug 9, 2007

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Chenrezig, The Buddha of Compassion

"Humans are now exploiting 20% more renewable resources than can be replaced each year...
It would require the natural resources equivalent to 4 more Planet Earths to sustain the projected 2050 population of 9 billion people."

-- World Wildlife Fund and Worldwatch Institute in Washington

WAKEUP!WAKEUP!WAKEUP!WAKEUP!

3 biggest planetary problems!

1. Human overpoluation
2. A meat diet
3. Dependence and use of fossil fuels!

If actions are not taken to curb overpopulation, all of the environmentalism will not save us.

Support spay and neuter programs for humans!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=idiocracy

Every 4 days the population of Dallas or Detroit is added to the Earth and every 3 weeks the population of Los Angeles is added.

When the Shit Hits the Fan
Artist: Circle Jerks
Album: Golden Shower of Hits

in a sluggish economy
inflation,recession
hits the land of the free
standing in unemployment lines
blame the government for hard times

we just get by
however we can
we all gotta duck
when the shit hits the fan

10 kids in a Cadillac
stand in lines for welfare checks
let's all mooch off the state
gee!the money's really great!

we just get by
however we can
we all gotta duck
when the shit hits the fan

dooity doowapwap say what yeah?

soup lines
free loaves of bread
5lb blocks of cheese
bags of groceries
social security
has run out on you and me
we do whatever we can
gotta duck when the shit hits the fan...

Terminators having sex.

Human overpopulation='s
the death of birth of other species!

Flying f*ck:
When you don't care at all about something.
Not caring or giving a shit at all.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flying+fuck

World Population Counter
The word DUH comes to mind.
http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

"Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we posses. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the billions who are its victim."
--Martin Luther King Jr.

Who are you going to believe MLK or the Pope?

Stop us already!
http://www.populationconnection.org/
http://www.npg.org/
http://www.stopoverpopulation.org/
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
http://www.popinfo.org/

This is the way to enlightenment!

Seriously, take a chill pill!

FREE BIRTH CONTROL IN ALL COUNTRIES!
FREE STERILIZATION!
1 CHILD HOUSEHOLDS IN ALL COUNTRIES!
ADOPTION AS AN OPTION!
ADOPT ALL UNWANTED CHILDREN!

Can't afford condoms, the pill or being snipped? "Birth Control Glasses!"

The U.N.'s panel of Scientists have stated the world
has between 3-5 years to curb global warming in order to to avoid a major crisis.

Eating meat is more damaging to the ecosystem than driving a car.
It creates more global warming, consumes large amounts of water and creates more pollution.

Want to conserve water? Stop eating beef!
The water stat above is low.
Every pound of beef requires 5,000+ gallons of water to produce it!
--The Food Revolution and http://www.monolake.org/waterconservation/

Without fossil fuels we can only support 1/4 to 1/2 a billion people.

Buckle up kids, daddy’s puttin the hammer down!

Get out there and vote for solar power, alternative fuels, the electric car, the air car and hydrogen conversion!

As the oil runs dry it becomes more expensive.
With the current cost we are now seeing the following results....
Haiti ... Somalia ... Bangladesh ... Afghanistan...

Soaring prices and food shortages have resulted in deadly riots – and forced families to go hungry. As usual, women and children are the most vulnerable. The New York Times reports from Haiti.

WAKEUP!WAKEUP!WAKEUP!WAKEUP!

We are now in the 6th largest extinction of plant and and animal life!

We are imploding the ecosytem!

This is the situation peeps....

We are losing species at a rate 17,000 to 100,000 a year (depending on whose numbers are used); a worldwide implosion of plant and animal life that has only been equaled 5 times in the past 5 billion years, the last time being the death of the dinosaurs. Animal farming for human consumption is the #1 cause.

We consume more than 50% of the planet’s available fresh water leaving all other species of plants and animals to compete for what is left. Read about how the meat industry is destroying the water supply!
http://www.goveg.com/environment.asp

70% of ocean fish stocks are “fully exploited”--DEAD or “overfished.”
---dead dude, as in no more, ceased to be.
The world’s oceans have lost over 90% of large predatory fish.
--U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization

So what you're saying is birth control is bad?

More than 75% of the topsoil that existed world-wide when Europeans first colonized America is now gone. It takes, on average, 400 years for a forest to create a foot of topsoil that is capable of sustaining crops. --People will go hungry if we cut down the forests? uh huh.

So what you are saying is I should keep wiping my butt with virgin forest toilet paper?

72 acres of rainforest are destroyed every minute, mostly by impoverished people working for multinational corporations, who are cutting and burning the forest to create agricultural or pasturelands to grow beef for export to the United States.
This 38-million-acres-per-year loss will wipe out the entire world’s rainforest in our children’s lifetimes if it continues at its current pace.--The rainforest supplies our oxygen and we will have NO OXYGEN SUPPLY if we do not stop the fast food industry from destroying the rainforest!

But the 99 cent burgers are so good!
---Here have some of this poison Kool-Aid....

What I'm saying is...
It's just not on man...aka...no go.

Oxygen good. Deforestation bad.

Stop eating beef and KFC---#1 destroyer of the Brazilian Rainforest. They suck! Do not eat them!

50 billion animals are killed for food each year. The suffering this represents is staggering.
90% of the animals humans are consuming live in horrible factory farms where they never go outside, live in crowded conditions and have no quality of life. Almost all of them are slaughtered while fully conscious.

Humans need to get a grip!

MEET YOUR MEAT!

Enlightenment the easy way...
or the hard way grasshopper?

We are in the age of consequences...
It's time for the human race to grow the hell up!

You can't eat money!

Sustainabiility:
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs--add to this definition plants and animals and their future generations!

Live Earth/SOS/7.7.07
Campaign for a Climate in Crisis

http://www.liveearth.org/

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ZERO EMISSIONS AND FREEDOM FROM OIL! WE CAN SWITCH TO AIR COMPRESSION, FUEL CELL, HYDROGEN, AND ELECTRIC CARS!

Hydrogen Conversion
Complete hydrogen conversion kits will soon be available for various late-model cars and trucks as well as individual system components for those who choose to assemble their own kits!

http://webmail.west.cox.net/do/mail/message/view?msgId=carsDELIM1005

Air car
http://www.theaircar.com/acf/

Fuel Cell
http://www.fuelcells.org/?gclid=CNui0e22-ZECFR37iAodk2g4rA

What are you doing on the 4th of July?
We're building a human chain to fight against Global Warming. We are declaring our independence from oil!
Put the word "ZERO" in large letters in the window of your car, your home or wear it on your person.

PLease sign the ZEV (Zero Emission Vehicles) Independence from Oil Petition and tell your family, co-workers, and friends about the July 4th Rally!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/zev-independence-day-rally

We are lining up on the following Interstates and we will be marching in the streets! US interstates...
I-5,I-15, I-25, I-35, I-55, I-75, I-95, I-90, I-94, I-80, I-40, and I-10.
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Earthlab
What is your Earth impact?
Find out today by taking the EarthLab Earth Conservation Plan Calculator, then learn ways to reduce your impact on the environment.
http://www.earthlab.com/signupprofile/

Earthships; Passive solar heated homes.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=L9jdIm7grCY

100% Replanted; Replant what you use.
http://www.replanttrees.org/

Save trees and reduce C02 emissions.
Reclaim your mailbox.
100+ million trees destroyed annually for junk mail.
http://www.41pounds.org/

How to recycle everything.
Just go to the link, click on the type of item you want to recycle and it will tell you how.
http://www.lime.com/features/limes_guide_to_recycling/story/11485/

how_to_recycle_everything?utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=plm&utm
_campaign=additions &utm_term=recycling

Buddha praying for the animals.

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace." - Dr. Albert Schweitzer

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." - Mohandas K. Gandhi

Free Vegetarian Starter Kit!

Vegan Action!

Stop in the name of love...

Environmental reasons to go vegan or vegetarian!
http://vegetarian.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/
XJ&sdn=vegetarian&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fgoveg.com%2F
veganism _environment.asp

http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianvegan101/f/environment.htm
http://www.goveg.com/feat/chewonthis/index.asp

Buy Local Harvest;
Real food, real farmers, real community.
http://www.localharvest.org/

Buy organic! Support natural foods!
http://www.truefoodnow.org/

Animal liberation until every cage is empty!

Animal liberation until every cage is empty!

Respect life. End factory farming!
http://www.factoryfarm.org/

Boycott KFC. They are not only cruel to animals, they are the #1 destroyer of the Amazon rainforest!

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/releases/kfc-exposed-for-trashing-the-a
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/kentucky-fried-chickenskfc-does-cruelty

They have no voice.
They can't organize.
They need our help for their freedom.

"I am my brothers keeper, and I will fight his fights, and speak the words for beast and bird, till the world shall set things right."
--Animal Voice

Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. ~Charles R. Magel

Who Is and Who Isn't Testing on Animals?
Determining whether a company or product is or is not tested on animals is easy! Simply type in the name of the company or product in the search bar and press "Search" http://www.navs.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ain_pt_whois

STOP Animal Testing!Procter and Gamble is one of the worlds largest companies who test on animals with products such as Cover Girl, Max factor, Oil of Olay, Secret Deodarant, Clairol, Head & Shoulders, Herbal Essences, Pantene, Pert Plus, Physique, Vidal Sassoon, DayQuil, NyQuil, Pepto-Bismol, PUR Water Filtration System, Crest Toothpaste, Noxzema, Ohm, Ivory and Zest.

Over 20,000,000 animals suffer and die in U.S. laboratories every year. These innocent victims are subjected to addictive drugs, caustic chemicals, ionizing radiation, chemical and biological weapons, electric shock, deprivation of food and/or water, psychological torture and many other horrors. .

For info go to this link: http://www.all-creatures.org/saen/index.html

NAVS: National Anti-Vivisection Society
Help end the suffering of animals.
Stop the use of animals for scientific research.
http://www.navs.org/site/PageServer?pagename=index

"The fight is not for us, not for our personal wants and needs. It is for every animal that has ever suffered and died in the vivisection labs, and for every animal that will suffer and die in those same labs unless we end this evil business now. The souls of the tortured dead cry out for justice, the cry of the living is for freedom. We can create that justice and we can deliver that freedom. The animals have no one but us. We will not fail them."
- Barry Horne (1951 - 2001)

The US had 126 live animal labs in US universities. 118 have been shut down!
Activist petitions, phone calls and demonstrations have been successful!
We are now down to only 8!

This link gives the name, email and phone #s of the labs and letters you can just copy/paste into the body of your message!
http://support.pcrm.org/site/DocServer/PCRM_Wanted
_Poster.pdf?docID=461&autologin=true&AddInterest
=1781

Ban the use of all fur products!
They are skinning animals alive...don't believe it? Watch the video!
http://www.strasbourgcurieux.com/fourrure
*Ban Chinese goods until this is stopped.
Most fur is imported from China and they have no laws protecting animals!

Here's a list of designers and fashion houses that torture animals! Boycott!
http://www.nycanimalrights.com/Designers%20That%20
Use%20Fur.htm
http://www.tonglen.oceandrop.org/Ban_Fur.htm
http://www.furisdead.com/?c=fidbanner05

Ask Gucci to go fur-free today!
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/gucci_fur

Boycott wool, leather and fur!
Video footage of them skinning animals alive and slitting their throats while they are fully conscious.
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=skins062&Player=wm

Stop the baby seal clubbing!
CARE2 PETITIONS!
Just do a search "seals" , "Seal hunt"
or use the link below and go down the list.
http://www.google.com/cse?q=seal&cx=000818287483724297494%3
Al03djeg20wm&cof=FORID%3A0

Please sign the petition!
http://www.hsus.org/about_us/humane_society_international_hsi/
protect_seals_actions.html

Boycott Canadian seafood!
Print out the pocket guide to avoid buying Canadian seafood or better yet go vegan or vegetarian so it's never an issue!
http://www.hsus.org/web-files/PDF/pocket_guide_to_boycotting_canadian_seafood.pdf

Boycott Outback Steakhouse!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/603100535
They sell Canadian seafood and therefore
contribute to the slaughter of baby seals!

Boycott Red Lobster!
Red Lobster restaurants are a huge contributer to the Annual Canadian Seal Hunt (they serve Canadian sea food). If you buy food at Red Lobster, you support the Canadian Seal Hunt. So if you aren't vegetarian/vegan yet and you must have seafood, go somewhere else.

Compassion is Always in Fashion.
http://www.peta.org/living/clothingguide.asp
http://www.crueltyfreeshop.com/html/shop_entrance.html
http://www.compassionateconsumer.com/
https://secure2.convio.net/navs/site/Ecommerce?
VIEW_PRODUCT=true&product_id=1081&store_id=1241&J
ServSessionIdr007=ntnz8vg681.app14a

Ban Cruel Traps!
http://www.bancrueltraps.com/
http://www.banlegholdtraps.com/traps.html

Rarely are trapped animals killed remotely quickly. The majority of trapped animals die desperate, agonizing deaths.

"Some…will wonder how such cruelty can have been permitted
to continue in these days of civilization." - Charles Darwin

Monsanto GMO foods and pesticides are linked to death of honey bees!
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_4557.cfm
Monsanto is also linked to the death of amphibians world wide.

Were going to try word association. I'll say a word and you tell me the first thing that comes to your mind.

MONSANTO
EVIL!!!
MONSANTO
POISON
MONSANTO
HATE

I think we've discovered the source of your repressed anger!

Millions against Monsanto petition!
http://www.geocities.com/arthurtesla/peoplespeak.html
http://www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.cfm

We are going to stop Monsanto!

Books:

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Hours-Ancient-Sunlight -Revised/dp 1400051576
While everything appears to be collapsing around us -- ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars -- we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio’s web movie Global Warning, The Last Hours of Ancient SunlightThe Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight helps us understand--and heal--our relationship to the world, to each other, and to our natural resources.
It details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture’s blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem. Thom Hartmann’s comprehensive book, originally published in 1998, has become one of the fundamental handbooks of the environmental activist movement. Now, with fresh, updated material and a focus on political activism and its effect on corporate behavior.

The Food Revolution:
How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World
What can we do to help stop global warming, feed the hungry, prevent cruelty to animals, avoid genetically modified foods, be healthier and live longer? Eat vegan or vegetarian foods!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573247022/
qid%3D993219486/sr%3D1-1/ref%3Dsc%5Fb%5F1/104-
2452989-9605549

Sunfood Diet Success System

http://www.amazon.com/Sunfood-Diet-Success-System-Transformation/dp/0965353362

http://www.dahnyoga.com/
http://www.bikramyoga.com/

The Enigmas by Pablo Neruda
http://www.poemhunter.com/bestpoems/pabloneruda/enigmas/

The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/poetry/
oriah-mountain-dreamer.html

Places of Peace and Power
http://www.sacredsites.com/

Movies:

An Inconvenient Truth

http://www.climatecrisis.net/
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. We can no longer view global warming as a political issue - rather, it is the biggest moral challenges facing our global civilization.

http://11thhouraction.com/signupgclid=CN2Cg4PUuo4 CFRcIYgod4iz8wA
Leonardo DiCaprio's "The 11th Hour" is a documentary concerning the environmental crises caused by human actions and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.

The mission of our community is to inspire action at every level: from individual action, up through our communities, to the state, national and international level. The actions are all shifting our civilization to a sustainable future. Let's work and take action together. The time is now. The hope is you. Let's begin.
http://www.leonardodicaprio.org/index.html

http://www.thecorporation.com/
This link provides an awesome set of links for political and environmental acitvism. Enjoy!
http://www.thecorporation.com/index.cfm?page_id=19
THE CORPORATION explores the nature of the dominant institution of our time. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics.

http://veg-tv.info/Earthlings
EARTHLINGS is a feature length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human providers." The film is narrated by Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR) and features music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby.

With an in-depth study into pet stores, puppy mills and animals shelters, as well as factory farms, the leather and fur trades, sports and entertainment industries, and finally the medical and scientific profession, EARTHLINGS uses hidden cameras and never before seen footage to chronicle the day-to-day practices of some of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit. Powerful, informative and thought-provoking, EARTHLINGS is by far the most comprehensive documentary ever produced on the correlation between nature, animals, and human economic interests. There are many worthy animal rights films available, but this one transcends the setting. EARTHLINGS cries to be seen.

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Hometown	Phoenix
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Birthday	Feb 01
Languages	love, English, Urban slang, Rusty French with a pocket dictionary, body language, some cat
About Me	I took the red pill, not the blue one... Advocate of co-housing to save resources and bring people together, committed to sustainability, libertarian regarding human relations and draw the line at animal/environment--then it's green party, stand up for those who cannot defend themselves, believe in ethical consumption, support green businesses, believe in religious tolerance and oppose fundamentalists/extremists of any religion… a bit of a spiritual maverick and have tried lots of stuff, eccentric, artistic, a sometimes dark sense of humor, rebellious, anarchist tendencies reigned in by a desire for results and what works, a deep compassion for animals. Regarding activism… Appreciate fellow activists, even when not necessarily aligned with their cause, love their intention to make a difference, love tree huggers and those guys from Sea Shepherd who go to Antarctica and would die to save a whale, inspired by international collaboration and global stewardship. Thank you to all of the Care2 members who are making the world a great place to be! *Leading by example is the most powerful form of social transformation "Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace--a soul generated by love." --Martin Luther King Jr.
	Introduce yourself to Laurel
Lifestyle
Pets	cats
Activist Aspirations	Rabid
Political Leaning
Religions	truth, love
Eating Habits	Acai, Juicing, fasting, lots of water, Still Love Chocolate Though!, Raw Foods, LOTS OF TEA, healthy
Wild Fact About Me	I play Andrew Bird's music for orphaned birds while we are on the way to the Liberty Wildlife shelter. They love whistling and the violin. I like to use the Jedi mind trick on bugs when they are stuck inside a building so I can catch them and put them outside! Lots of times if you think, "Don't move... I won't hurt you...I'll put you outside", they don't move.--That or they can't be bothered. Bugs are always on a bug mission so it's hard to stop them. :)
My Philosophy	I am responsible for the conditions around me. I will reincarnate on this Earth. There is no where to go--This is it. When I take care of the Earth I take care of myself. Earth is not a Motel 6 rental planet. Humans are not #1. We are part of a web of life.
What Gives Me Hope	People who believe in personal responsibility. Feeling centered in my heart.
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by	Free sterilization and I would give out contraceptives.
What/who changed my life and why	The Plague by Albert Camus. Dr. Rieux was an atheist doctor who lost his wife to the plague yet still worked to help others regardless. His morals were not based on fear or God. His morals were based on doing what he believed to be right. He had compassion. I would like to leave this Earth knowing I contributed more than what I took. Jinidra Jain, teacher--because he opened my eyes to global responsibility. I am responsible for every condition in my life and can expand my relationship to self as the world. I realized that I am committed to a future that works for many beings, not just myself.
What Bugs Me	Slaughterhouses, Baby seal hunts, GMO foods, child abuse/molesters, bull fighting, animal testing, People who are WILLFULLY ignorant, overpopulation, Littering and Polluting, Global Warming!!!!, breeders, animal abuse and neglect, The destruction of our environment
Passions	Art, Architecture, Music, humor, Body work/ healing, Expanding Consciousness, Green living, Nature, Books, Metaphysics
Inspirations	Unablashed expression, Vulnerability, The mysterious nature of the universe, Synchroncity, groups like Sea Shepherd, to fulfill my purpose on earth, the beauty of nature
What Scares Me	Kitty litter, Genital piercing gone wrong, Evil Clowns, Bad British Accents, Permanent heavy makeup eeps!, The world becoming a giant strip mall, Consumerism, Breeders, Newscasters, Kids having babies, Schools that look like prisons, Wallmart, Bad design
Favorites
Role Models	Jinindra Jain, My Grandmother, Jesus Christ, Buddha, Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mahatma Gandhi
Quotation	Tommy: Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour? Hedwig: No, but I love his work. Making gestures to a police official that had no connection with the Noble Eightfold Path. I didn't attend the funeral but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. - Mark Twain "When the government no longer trusts the people, it should dissolve them and elect a new people." Monty Python's Life of Brian... Brian: Excuse me. Are you the Judean People's Front? Reg: Fck off! We're the People's Front of Judea. Repo--Man Miller: A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate of shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness. Otto: You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days? ************* Matrin Luther King Jr. regarding his eulogy... Tell him not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize--that isn't important. Tell him not to mention that I have 300 or 400 other awards--that's not important. Tell him not to mention where I went to school... I'd like for somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King Jr. tried to love somebody. *************** Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.” --Erica Jong (American writer and feminist, 1942) *************** "At last Yeshe Donden [Personal Physician to the Dalai Lama] takes her hand, raising it in both of his own . . . In a moment he has found the spot, and for the next half hour he remains thus, suspended above the patient like some exotic golden bird with folded wings, holding the pulse of the woman beneath his fingers, cradling her hand in his . . . all at once I am envious—not of him, not of Yeshe Donden for his gift of beauty and holiness, but of her. I want to be held like that, touched so, received." *************** At each step of the descent, a new person was disclosed within me of whose name I was no longer sure, and who no longer obeyed me. And when I had to stop my exploration because the path faded from beneath my steps, I found a bottomless abyss at my feet, and out of it came, arising from I know not where, the current I dare call my life. --Teilhard de Chardin *************** I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there; I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagoda, but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere. I searched the mountains and the valleys but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him. I went to the Kaaba in Mecca, but He was not there either. I questioned the scholars and philosophers, but He was beyond their understanding. I then looked into my heart and it was there where He dwelled that I saw him; He was nowhere else to be found. --Jalaluddin Rumi *************** Here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart) --ee cummings *************** "Commit random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty." **************
Interests	Enlightenment, Sacred sites, Spirituality/Philosophy, Art, Architecture/Design, reading, humor, music, recycling, fitness, ecology, Body/Personal Care, Anthropology
Books	Faith and Compassion, Mother Teresa, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, The Alchemist, Church of the Subgenius, Immortal Poems, The Biology of Transcendence, Cosmic Trigger, holy blood holy grail, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Prometheus Rising, Stalking the Wild Pendulum
Music	Bauhaus, Planet Drum, BMJ, Radiohead, Natasha Atlas, Loop Guru, Hotel Costes, Plants and Animals, The Shins, The Dandy Warhols, The Little Rabbits, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Sublime!, godspeed you black emperor!, The White Stripes, Modest Mouse, Buddha Bar
Movies	What the Bleep, I Heart Huckabees, Wes Anderson movies, Lost in Translation, Investigation into the Invisible World, Ed Wood, Jay and Silent Bob movies, Lock Stock, The Wings of Desire, Cinema paradiso, Eternal Sunshine, Office Space, Amelie, Secretary
TV Shows	Bill Maher Real Time, Black Adder, The Office (BBC), Chappelle's Show, The Green, John Stewart, Colbert Report, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What Not to Wear, jackass, Iconoclasts, Get Smart
Favorite Foods	RAW FOOD!, Organic Foods Rock!!!, juicing fruits, Cajun/Creole, Mediterranean/Greek, Vietnamese and Thai, japanese, indian, chocolate
Favorite Places	Lover's Arms, Buddhist temples and shrines, Dave Chappelle's Internet, Taliesin West, The sky, Sedona, the ocean, the mountains
Can't Live Without	silence, poetry, beauty, art, music, good food, love, sunshine
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Oct 18, 2008 7:46 PM
Laurel W. (20)	http://www.care2.com/c2c/people/profile.html?pid=387418497 Here's the link for my new profile. This page you are on is technically broken. Laurel
Sep 28, 2008 1:57 AM
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Aug 30, 2008 4:13 PM
Amber P. (4)	Have a wonderful week and keep fighting the great fight for animals!! -Amber- !
Jun 27, 2008 4:23 PM
Tiffany M. (58)
Jun 27, 2008 3:59 PM
Tiffany M. (58)	Hi, Laurel!
Jun 24, 2008 7:58 AM
Jo C. (170)	Girly Comments & Graphics
Jun 21, 2008 9:29 PM
Amber P. (4)	Have a wonderful week friend!
Jun 18, 2008 10:06 PM
ForestWald E. (8)	Your seal supersized hehehe Thanxxx for your email today.
Jun 17, 2008 2:29 AM
Adrianna M. (42)	Bunny (\__/) (+"."+) (")_(")Every one help him on his way to WORLD DOMINATION!
May 25, 2008 3:33 PM
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May 16, 2008 5:35 PM
ANIMALRIGHTS C. (44)
May 11, 2008 4:01 PM
ForestWald E. (8)	Yay-- what could be greater hit than a hug!! hazaaah!!
May 11, 2008 12:32 PM
White Wolf H. (467)	Laurel, May your special day be filled with all your hearts desires! Love&Peace, Kay
May 6, 2008 2:32 AM
White Wolf H. (467)	Hi there...yeah I am back at the site stopping the abuse of animals and helping any way I can!! Hugss to you my dear friend, Kay
May 3, 2008 4:18 PM
ANIMALRIGHTS C. (44)
May 2, 2008 8:31 PM
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May 1, 2008 1:24 AM
White Wolf H. (467)	My Dear Friend Laurel have a great day!! Hugs, Kay
Apr 28, 2008 11:26 AM
Sheila G. (235)	hey Laurel, great comment, I was pretty steamed after getting a warning about what I had to say on that page, did you read what Quisp posted?! They let that stand, pretty obvious that the editor has chosen sides, grrrr! thanks for being there xo sheila
Apr 27, 2008 12:28 AM
Darren T. (3104)	Thank You for being our friend! Namaste! Darren STOP TORTOISE IMPORTATION FOR THE PET TRADE!
Apr 22, 2008 2:13 PM
ForestWald E. (8)	This is the nicest greenest 'googalization' ever baby!! HAPPY EARTH DAY MY SUHSHINEY FRIEND OF ARIZONA.