More About Me
Location: Dunedin, Otago
Occupation: "student"
My Philosophy On Life: Maintain your interest, your sense of humour, and your compassion for others and, thumb your nose at the grims, you'll always be young
My Interests: People, research, movies, self-improvement, supporting others
My Inspirations: Single mums who maintain a sense of humour, old folks who are still young, those who give a damn despite few having cared about them, or few caring about them now
Music I Love: eclectic -- blues, jazz, blues, jazz, oh and maybe a bit of easy listening blues and jazz
Movies I Love: Breakfast at Tiffany's, 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Quiet Man dir, John Ford, starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, On Golden Pond -- Henry and Jane Fonda, Katherine Hepburn (anything with Kate Hepburn!)
TV Shows I Love: American Idol, Two and a Half Men
Books I Love: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:, Edward FitzGerald version, albeit the most fatalistic of translations, I don't equate fatalism with nihilism, I believe we come this way but once:, "The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit, Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."
Places I Love: The Lakes Area in England, "Glasgow"'s Paisley Cathedral, Queensland's Noosa Hinterland, the churches around Montreal, the public gardens around Vancouver, South Australia's desert, the Canadian Niagara Falls, in foggy weather the Golden Gate, in fine weather, the Golden Gate, the campus of University British Columbia, Point Lookout, Stradbroke Island, rambling around the Yorkshire Dales
Quotes I Love: "Every day I learn something more" -- spoken by some famous thinker and inventory -- at the age of 82! (?da Vinci)
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. --Proust
"Justice will be secured in Athens when those who are not injured by injustice feel as indignant as those who are."
--Solon, 6th century, B.C.
also: "Learning never exhausts the mind."
Leonardo da Vinci
Life is hard. People struggle. Be kind.
(Felix Klein)
"It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.'"
--Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
