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| User: | crosstherubicon (1596315)
Two Roads
Life is for the Living
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| Name: | David |
| Bio: | What to say, where to start.
Humour is central to my life, friendships, family...my world revolves around hearty laughter.
Great believer that life is what you make it and that perspective is the key - if you think the world is awful then it will be, if you think it's worth fighting for then it will be.
Life is more than posessions and essentially what counts is to be true to oneself but not at the expense of others. Selflessness is a much underrated virtue, and gravely so. "No man is an island, entire of itself".....Kindness is far more important than being wise.
My Greatest Hero is (as any one of my friends will tell you with a sigh) Robert F Kennedy. More than anyone else who has lived (and that I've not known in person) he is the man I aspire to be.
"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest wall of oppression and resistance."
Robert F. Kennedy, South Africa, 1966
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/rfk.htm
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| Memories:: | 12 entries |
| Interests: | 135: 20th century verse, altruism, american history, andres segovia, anglo-catholic, architecture, art, bach, backgammon, beat generation, beer, bill hicks, bobby kennedy, buddhism, cafod, carl jung, catholicism, christianity, classical guitar, clifden, comedy, communism, connemara, cremona, cs lewis, dalai lama, dead poets society, debate, denys the areopagyte, desert fathers, donegal, dr lecter, dylan thomas, edgar allen poe, edith piaf, f. scott fitzgerald, family, fern hill, foo fighters., france, friends, galway, giorgione, gothic, gothic catholic, gothic london, green day, guillermo gomez, guitar, hampstead, hampstead heath, hannibal, hannibal lecter, heidegger, hesychasm, history, incense, inspector morse, ireland, ischia, italy, jack kerouac, james joyce, japan, japanese art, john clare, john donne, john fitzgerald kennedy, john xxiii, johnny cash, josemaria escriva, joseph conrad, kabbalah, kathleen madigan, kierkegaard, kundun, little britain, london, london life, martin luther king, meditation, michael moore, mozart, my kid brothers, mysticism, new port south, north london, ok go, opus dei, oscar wilde, peace, peter licht, politics, pope john xxiii, psychology, rainer maria rilke, rfk, robert f. kennedy, robert frost, rossini, rugby, saint francis, sax cantor riff, scent of a woman, solanus casey, sound of music, st dominic, st francis, st johns wood, stephen fry, streetcar named desire, t s eliot, talented mr ripley, tarrega, tennyson, the rasmus, theology, thomas harris, thomas merton, thoreau, tibet, tolkien, truman capote, u2, urban exploration, vatican, vicar of dibley, vienna, w b yeats, walden, west hampstead, will and grace, woody allen, wordsworth, writing |
| Friends: |  | 21: | amergina, andrewwyld, aramis307, byzantinespy, crosstherubicon, darkpigeon, ginnyblack, jrdn, lazy_mans_magic, loobie, lysistrata314, markredmond, megglesmcgoo, merelydanny, quietgladness, sistermeg, soliano, spoonu, stcecemd, thomryng, two_headed_lady |  | 10: | catholicism, christianity, desolatelondon, fiddle, judgedchristian, lj_maintenance, london_others, london_uk, mere_christian, news |
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| Account type: | Basic Account |
