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Name: Lia
Gender: Female
Interests: talking to strangers, having well-manicured feet, enjoying the outdoors, sunshine, dessert.
Expertise: practicing good oral hygiene, eating peanut butter out of the jar, showing off my scar.
Occupation: Other
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  LiaRager
Member Since:
8/27/2004
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| if i could find some well-balanced people to teach me about sustainable farming.
i'm not really interested in the radical, elitist types, or those who are fanatic political extremists. i don't want to belong to a ground which alienates itself from all but 3% of the population.
okay, i get it, you are "anti" whatever. it's everybody ELSE who is completely closed-minded and ignorant...
i usually don't talk in such generalities, and generally try to refrain from succumbing to such negativity... it's just i feel like what i'm seeking is simple. i just want to help inspire people to be conscientious, healthy and happy.
i thought i had found a balanced group of people (an intentional community that practices sustainability, but also has a netflix account and shops online at walmart - they must be grounded in reality, right?)... but then they pulled this "patriarchy is the root of warfare" bit on me, and starting preaching the evils of monogamy.
the important thing is, i found this out before going.
the frustrating thing is,
where are these nice, moderate, down to earth people who grow their own food and make their own cheese?
do i need to go live with the amish? at least then i wouldn't have to deal with the whole free love thing.
i don't know. i'm going to LA tomorrow to visit family, and to the mountains after to enjoy the air.
and i'm going to keep looking and trying and hope i find some intelligent, good-hearted folks with a lot of knowledge to impart.
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| so i want to have my fulltime blog on livejournal, because it's far more interactive than this xanga thing.
what i like best about livejournal is: you don't have to be a member to leave feedback on journal entries.
and i want everybody to be able to access and provide funny comments as
i chronicle my experiences in this new place to which i will be
relocating shortly.
so go check it out:
http://lia-mendez.livejournal.com/
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| i treated myself to a new book today. and a copy of the new yorker. the "food issue."
these are presents to myself, and they play an integral role in helping to keep my brain and energy focused on what i want to achieve.
all throughout my career as a student of narrative writing, i remember barry siegel remarking time and time again how writers - especially writers of nonfiction who devote years of their lives to researching and reporting a single event, topic, individual, etc. - are usually (and entirely necessarily) exceptionally obsessive by nature.
at the time, i couldn't picture in my head any specific thing over which i might obsess to the point of wanting to make a career out of it - whether that meant something i might consistently do for a living or something about which i would consistently research and write.
but i've had quite a few new experiences and learned a bit more about myself in these past 2 years.
i now recognize my obsessions as the following:
1. the human condition as a joyful, experiential learning environment in which the main areas of study are reciprocity, cooperation, and kindness.
2. food as one of the most universally significant aspects of human culture.
3. the human need to (respectfully) cultivate nature in order to produce food and culturally thrive.
i want to live it. and i want to write it.
and it's going to happen. when the timing and opportunity are right.
i've been trying very hard to put myself in a place to make my passions a reality. it just seems that so far, neither the moment nor the opportunity has been in alignment with my purpose...
so i keep my head up, keep looking, and keep telling myself that for very effort that doesn't work out, it just means something greater lies ahead for which i am better suited.
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