Happiness Is

My passions are my family, music and currently politics. I have a love/hate relationship with politics, I love our democracy, but I hate the way it has been trampled the past 7 years. My family goes without saying. I've been married to the same woman for 20 years and I love her more today than then. I have a beautiful son who just turned 7 yesterday who is my life.
Music, well, my mom swears I was keeping a beat in-utero, so that began very early. I took up drums at age 7 and trumpet some years later. I love to talk about all three of these things as well as sports. My wife asks me how I can spout out all the statistics of every player in the NFL, NBA and Major League baseball, but forget to pick up milk at the grocery store. It's just the way I'm wired.

I like to "discuss" these things with people and NOT argue. You can have differing perspectives on things, be passionate about it, but also be flexible enough to respect the other person's point of view. Even if we don't agree, we should allow the other person's passion to flow into us.

As for Ken Burns, as I said, I watched his film "The War" and when I saw him talking about/promoting it, you could literally see the tears well up in his eyes when he talked about the vets with which they talked. He literally becomes what he is producing. We need more filmmakers like him, Spike Lee, Andrew, Michael Moore, etc...

As for music, even thought I'm not, I've been listening to and dissecting my favorite jazz recording "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis. It's simplicity with complexity at it's enigmatic best.

Peace, Love and Happiness,
Greg

Posted by G's Joint on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 7:33 AM

Well greg, I can say that I really relate to you. while rading Paz's blog, i was thinking also about my family. My husband and I have been together for 23 years, married for 18. He has been in the hospital all weekend and his fight with cancer has become a major battle. but with each day I love him more and more. my kids are also the best. whether they are doing good or bad, it does not matter. I am passionately involved either way, in their lives because I always want the best for them.

I also watched Ken Burns, "the war". Excellent!!! Not only did I learn more about war especially WWII but, I found that my beliefs about war were reinstilled by listening to soldiers from the past. Differnet war but the same effects on those who serve, regardless of the reason we are fighting for. I am passionately against war!!!

Good music is also so passionate to me. My husband dedicated a song to me and printed out the words before he went to the hospital. It was Climax Blues Band "I love You" I have listened to it every day since when I come home from the hospital, and even though someone else wrote the words, with passion, I assume, they are now my words from the love of my life. I never knew someone would feel that strongly about me, and I jsut want to say, with time love and my passion for the person I chose to marry gets stronger.

I am passionate about helping others but it is also a change as life evolves. I used to be passionate about saving the world, now I am passionate about saving my family and am good about other people saving the world.

It is sad to see how many people walk through life numb, with no passion for anything they do. I think we all need to learn to live with passion and do whatever we do passionatley.

Peace,
Teresa

Posted by Hart Relations on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 1:42 PM

HI Teresa, it's me Greg contacting you from my other site, my Tribute to Tony Williams page. I just wanted to let you know you and your family are in my prayers. I'm going through something similar in my family and it's unbelievably hard. It's our passion for the people we love that defines how we handle these situations. Our pursuit of happiness is often interrupted by much sadness, strife and challenges, but we continue to persevere.

God Bless,
Greg

Posted by Tony Williams on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 7:08 AM

I am also passionate about animals and nature. Stopping the abuse of both would be nice...
Peace,
Greg

Posted by G's Joint on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 9:51 AM

I have always had a passion for working with clay. As a child, I had a 25 pound bag of clay under my bed that I would pull out daily and build things. Over the years it has been a part of my life, but I took a break when I had kids. I find myself wanting to make things again and have decided that a class will be my gift to myself for my birthday.

I recently met someone that has a passion for history, a subject I was never very interested in. I find myself looking forward to hearing him talk about it. He has such a spark in his voice when he talks of what it must have been like for people to have lived through different events. I even find myself looking forward to things like "history night" on TV.

I enjoy meeting people with a passion for different things. There is an energy in it and it often inspires me to explore new things and discover what new passions I may have waiting to be discovered.

Posted by Laura on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 7:38 AM

My passions?

TRUTH.
FAIRNESS.
SCIENCE.
LOGIC.

Why? I honestly don't know.

Posted by Richard H. Clark on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 8:16 AM

We can not make the mistake of confusing passion with love.. Passion consumes us in ebbs and flows, dependant on many thing to stay alive. Love is constant, unconditional dependant on nothing. I love my family always, at times I feel passonate about them. I do not love politics, but I feel passionate about the next election. I love life, and at times I feel passionate about it.

I have known many different people "passionate" about many different issues. When I look back on my life, most of my bad choices have been the ones made in a moment of passion.(don't read this as sexual passion please) We can not let our passions lead our life, without first building a strong foundation of love and education.

Passion alone can not stand the test of time.

Posted by say_tay on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 8:33 AM

Besides my parents, who inspired me to be the best mom I can be and raise children with long thick roots and at the same time wings so they could someday fly, I had two teachers I really admired. I was never one of those straight A students. Just the average kid. Science and history were my least favorite. I liked doing math, but wished I understood the concepts better. Then in 10th grade I had Mr. Korp for Algebra. He stood up there and talked about algebra like it was his child. He related the different equations we solved to everyday life. He was so passionate about math – it made me love numbers more and from then on got A’s in math. History was usually a class where I caught up on sleep. I could never remember names or dates and I could never fit all those events in history together to mean something to me. Until my senior year. My history teacher stood up there telling stories. His eyeballs almost popping out of his sockets. He took on different voices for the different people he was talking about, he was so animated when he talked and he always threw in some funny comments, it was like watching a stand up show. He made me love history for the first time. I wish I had him earlier like 9th grade. I could have had A’s for four years in history instead of just senior year.

Posted by Wellness on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 8:37 AM

Wonderrfully put and inspiring. You've caused me to pause for a moment of self-reflection and helped me to remember what it was like to be young again.

If you're a interested in spectacular reviews of American history, then I urge you to read "To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of Our American Founders."

Posted by Matthew Marquis on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 9:34 AM

Already some very interesting comments on today's blof. Very cool.

Passion, love, lust... Three often confused terms. Passion burns and can be the spark for either of the other two. Lust is short lived. Love is long term and as say tay states, unconditional. But without passion they are often unfulfilling. The stuff of 70's movie-of-the-week... "She lived in a loveless marriage", which more truly equates to a passionless marriage. No fire, no spark....

I often feel passionate about several key things. My family, music (mine and more often others'), nature, mountain biking, politics/religion.

My family inspires me daily with the wonder in my childrens' eyes and the openess of my wife's mind and spirit.

Music is a passion simply because it provides joy, wonder and excitement when finding a new nuance in an old favorite or a new spark in an artist or tune just discovered.

Nature shows and inspires passion with the cycle of beginnings and endings which occur each moment. From clouds slowing making their way across a sunny sky to stars first light unfolding into a blanket of iridescent sparkles.

Mountain biking because of the feeling of being a child again, of adrenaline pushing you to the next part of the trail, of the wind whistling through the trees and your ears, of the sound of the tires humming over the trail and sometimes of the shared accomplishment of discovering a new trail with a friend.

Politics/religion... I assemble these together because they are both 'hot bed' topics which inspires passion in almost everyone who takes the time to speak of them. Also, extremism on these topics seem to be so infused with passion that no other dissenting opinion can be voiced without leading to anger or even violence. Which is truly unfortunately since open discussion and even debate are the tools that can build understanding. And that understanding can often be a bridge to common ground which is required to build community.

“What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.” - Robert Kennedy

Those people who inspire me are my parents, my wife, my kids. Artists who are not afraid to be themselves and not bend to the winds of dissonance that attack non-conformity. Leaders who stand for what is good and right for the majority of people and not the special interests and moneyed lobbyists.

Those who dream big dreams and follow their heart, regardless of the fears and doubts of those around them. That is the core of passion for me.

As for music, this morning it was Amos Lee, "Freedom"... 'Freedom is seldom found/ by beating someone to the ground/ telling him how everything/ is gonna be now...'

Passion speaks volumes when we are able to hear it.

peace

Posted by Lowell Rice on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 10:23 AM

Nature is my passion. As an inner-city youth my summers at day camp in Swope Park in Kansas City, MO, were some of the best times of my life. In fact, after I was a camper, I went on to be Junior Counselor and later a paid staffer. This totals 15 years of my early life...among the trees, creeks and caves of this piece of Earth. I consider it my Earthly Womb.

I currently live deep in the forest of the North Georgia Mountains. I am blessed to be be here despite the career and financial toll. In the balance it is worth it.

The Grand Canyon my favorite spot in the US, I have traveled there on many occasions. The first time I saw it it took my breath away. And when I camped there I had never seen the stars so clearly. In the vastness of the Universe, and the minuteness of my life, I feel I still have meaning in the connectivity of all things.

I enjoy the passion of Astronomers, Physicist, Geologist and any others who have devoted their lives in the quest to understand our place in the Universe. When I watch them on the Geek Channels (as we call them) they are so passionate it gives warm fuzzies. <smile>

Thank you for this great post...you managed to release me from the tyranny of the urgent.

Posted by Ferocious Kitten on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 10:34 AM

This is an interesting blog, and I responded in part , because I am passionate about being passionate! As a double dragon in Chinese astology, and a mars in scorpio, or if you're not astrologically oriented, well, just as myself, I am passionate about most things, and one of my life's challenges is just to be able to lighten up!
Truly my foremost passions, though, are music, and growing plants. The best memory of my childhood is the annual treck to the wholesale greenhouse in Waxahatchie, after which we would pick blackberries , then go home to the cobbler!Hooray fo my mom.I am in the proces of recieving a patent for a variety of peach grown originally from the seed of a wild
peach, and when I am driving or riding around in a car, what captures my attention the most are the plants, tees, etc., and I am known for stopping the car at frequent intervals to examine them more closely.I should have a bumper sticker that says"I brake for plants".

Posted by Deb E. Dee and The Kimamas on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 11:00 AM

Ha! Please make that bumper sticker!
There really is so much to be grateful for, I myself am not too good of a plant grower, but am so in Love with trees...their magnificence...Awed. No two the same, such personality.
Starlight, oh my, shooting stars and the movement of the cosmos. Meteor showers, Waterfalls, water in general, nothing compares to that!
Astrology and numerology, the living language, The wind-it is always so right now.
Love friend...xm

Posted by mardi on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 12:36 AM

Great topic!!!!! I believe that every human being has something that they are passionate about. I believe passion is one of those things that lets us know we are alive and helps push us forward. I also believe passion when kept in check, is that part of us that expressing our connection to God Source (whatever you choose to call it. Higher Power, Great Spirit, the Universe, the door knob, whatever).

I also feel that alot people lose sight or cannot find their passion due to life experiences and get so beaten down or wounded. And that is the great human tradegy or the great human blessing. And the cool part of that is that others can help us rediscover our passion, our light. That is why we need each other, despite, race, color, creed, or sexual orientation. One human helping another human, period!!! I think is the greatest passion of all.

I have passion when i find that light inside of me and allow it to shine and can just truely be and experience the present moment or when others find their light inside and let it shine brightly.

Posted by Bryan Herbert on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 11:26 AM

Fellow door knob! Super words my brother. I referenced my image of 'god' as a Disco ball...
Somewhere on this page.
Love and super you light!
or my fave greeting which is neither hello nor goodbye- In La'kesh.
Love yo sis Mardi

Posted by mardi on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 12:39 AM

My life is full of passion. As a Scorpio, I am very passionate by nature. Passionate for those I love and for the world around me. I hold great passion for the Arts, music and painting, but it is my passion for life that consumes me the most.

I have had many influences in my life guiding my passion in varied direction. As a child, I was inspired by natures beauty and appalled at the trash strewn across her. I would spend my luchtimes in third grade walking the school yard picking up the rubbish left behind by others more uncaring. My father inspired my zest for the Arts. His creativity and inventiveness fed my hunger to learn. But it would have to be my eigth grade teacher, Mrs. T I shall call her, who inspired my true passion... life. Not just my life, but the lives of those around me.

Mrs. T showed me that how we all intertwine can make positive effects on someone we dont even know by small acts we perform. Mrs. T spent her winter breaks at an orphanage in Mexico, showing them love to help make their lives more enjoyable by going to see them and taking gifts and special food for them to relish. She taught me that if someone asks for food money on the side of a road, offer them a sandwich. If they are truly hungry they will take your offer, not buy any alcohol as so many do, and have a moment in their life they can be happy.

I have bought a cocoa and donut for a homeless gent during a cold morning and given a woman a ride from the bus stop on a dreary rainy day. It is through these small random acts of kindness, that I do my best to make life bearable for everyone around me. Holding a door for someone going out, or letting someone merge into the lane, small acts of kindess help make life easier for everyone around. Being carried by my passion and the hopes that the niceties will be forwarded, I continue to do what I can for whomever I can... the least I can do to make life a little nicer for us all.

As for music, Uncle John's Band is dancing through the air... a little Grateful Dead in honor of the upcoming Hallows Eve...

Posted by Scooterschik on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 1:48 PM

Sorry for hogging the page everyone! I am so passionate about passion, can't leave...
Lovely girl, I too picked up rubbish all my days, sometimes deliberately to show an example of how I thought we should live, but often privately, in the gravity of mine and mother's Love.

Quite possibly you might be interested in researching the medicine of the Spider? A most powerful, wonderful world creating spirit.

In Love xm

Posted by mardi on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 12:44 AM

again an awesome topic....
i agree with many of you and i believe my favorite explanations was lowell rice's. i agree with it alot.

my passion is nature, there is nothing better for me, then riding through the woods on horseback. it doesnt need to be fast, just taking the time and speed we enjoy.... all the bad unhappy thoughts, some of the worries stay behind.

working with clay is another passion, but i held back on it a long time...will start again in dezember, toghether with my son, who i not only love and adore, but also am quite passionate about.

my last great passion is yoga. i want to be much better in it and find the time to build it into my daily routine.

thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.
big hugs and a happy start into the new week.
xxx

Posted by der Bi(e)ber on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 2:46 PM

hmm, this is a good one for it has me turning my brain wheels!

I am an extremely passionate person. For the subjects I am interested in, my job and sometimes too passionate for people.
I am mainly interested in a few subjects-social issues, government and photography-but when someone talks with such energy and enthusiasm it lights up the entire room and I find it hard not to become enraptured in their hand gestures and jumpy eyebrows.

I chalk my father/mother and grandmother for my passions. All three have similar beliefs on the government and social/humanitarian work. It is not a rare event for my grandmother (Suema) to use a story from her 35 years as a social worker that will lead into a discussion that brings my father's attention away from the kitchen-where he escapes to from family dinners. I grew up watching their animated gestures and listened to the excitement and Passion for what should or could be done to alleviate the problems that plague the poeple of this country as well as foreign countries.

When I was ten my mother handed me her 35mm SLR Canon camera. It was heavy and bulky but I was finally able to showcase the world how I saw it. I never set out to make it my hobby, it is something that I do but I don't carry it around with me all the time (although I probably should). I know I'm passionate about it because now that I'm twenty and a college "drop-out", it is one of the two things that I find myself doing all the time (work being the first-ha!).
I see the act of photographing someone or something a way to share that concept and beauty, as many people do I hope but when an important issue to me comes up, it's a way to silenty tell the world what I see and wish to change or sometimes not change.
Recently I was sent an email from a Prof. that I had taken a profile of for the student paper I was briefly on. I was extremely surprised that she would take time out of her busy day (took me three days to find her and it was right before deadline) to send me an email that was so flattering and uplifting to me as a photographer.
I am starting to think that my passion for photography might have something to do with the amount of people telling me that it is what I do and how happy I look when I'm doing my thang. I know it does but for people to tell me that, it gives me just that little bit of confidence to shed the guard that inhibits my child like wonder for that tiny frame.

Posted by lucid suzie on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 5:15 PM

Recently I've been very passionate about God. I used to not understand exactly what IS God, and I'll admit I still don't understand. I am also passionate about my novel-in-progress. This is where these two passions combine.
I've been writing this novel since the fifth grade assignment, "Write a five chapter novel." Well, it ended up being a lot longer than five chapters. I've been working on this book for five and a half years, and I often feel like that teacher in "Animal House" when they ask him "how long have you been working on it?" "Four and a half years." "Well it must be really good, then." "Piece of shit."
But all along the way, I've bumped into God. And when I mean bumped, I mean full, head-on collisions. The theme of the book, the characters, the setting, and the basic inspirations for the book have all changed countless times. In fact, everything save the title (and even this has gone under quite a few spelling alterations, as it is a made-up word) has changed.
For better? Oh yes. Although I'm still not happy with it (I suffer from Perfectionisticisism Syndrome) I'm very comfortable and I finally see where I'm going.
But anyway, back to passions. I'm passionate about this book. And, through that, about God. Because I've realized how writing and novel is a lot like being God. I choose who lives or dies, I design the characters to play an important role and give them the right sort of imperfections to make them play the role all the better, I inspire the characters by throwing words into their mouths, and strangely enough, at times I'd get carried away and the characters will speak for themselves. I now realize that everyone is like a novel character. They have been designed by God and God has an idea of the plot in his head already; He just has to type it out, if you will, and make it come alive. Or rather, we have but to live it.
This book makes me ALIVE, it makes me who I am. It occupies my daydreams, my time, and because I've been sitting at my computer for the past year (I was off and on until finding my direction) I have now developed an addiction for tea. If that's indeed possible.
But I will tell you that it's all worth it. And I am far from done. At first I didn't know what to write about for this blog, but I've realized in typing this that YES, I do have a passion. It is a passion so deeply-set in me, a passion that's been growing for five and a half years. And I hope I will one day finish it. Thank you for taking the time in reading this.
<3 Paula

Posted by Paula on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 10:42 PM

Firstly, I'm passionately listening to Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones...
I have found in my life that passion is the only thing I can relate to. When meeting someone first, I always bring the conversation to their passions, I believe they are the fuel of dreams, and I want so much to encourage the dreams of the human creature. In the sense that society has been trying to tell us that society makes the people, I believe that people make the society, and what a diverse, explosively colourful and constantly changing expansive society this one is! Tightly weaving the web of life with shared dreams.
Here, in this neighbourhood, passionate causes seem to be music, literature, deep thought and actually meeting the heart of the individuals.
I always go straight to the heart, apparently rather disconcerting, I always place a hand magnetically on the heart to which I am speaking, sometimes get a strange reaction!
Music absolutely fuels my passion. I can connect to the lyrical concepts and my body possesed by it's musical instruction. Quite romantic!
I'm Alive!
It is actually how I pray, dancing. Thankful for my life, expressing that and completely present in the song.
I believe God is a disco ball! Party on the inside, and reflections on the outside.

Ha!

I live my life (try to, of course) from passion to passion, I see it light up in others, I acknowledge, support and encourage iut, for I believe that is the soul purpose. That is what makes us grow as souls. To find out that what we Love is what we are. What was planted in our hearts.

I love language, cinema, the living language of cinematography that is present in every woman's sanctuary, the characters of our lives that bring Life to the stories of us, and most fun of all, it's most hard to predict the outcome of our lives, I have taken to changing my conditioning to that of: "I can make my Dreams come true". It's my movie.

Ramble on, by Led Zeppelin has popped into my head in regards to what I'm doing!

Love you and Leave you til next time hoodies.

In Love, peace and creativity, Mardi

Posted by mardi on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 12:30 AM

I'm new to this blog, but I'm glad I found you. I am passionate about lots of things. First, living. I beat back a critical disease this past year with chemotherapy, and I'm well again. It could have taken my life, but I refused to die. Yes, the medicine was bad, but the journey was SO worth it. Life has a new urgency to me now.
I'm passionate about teaching. I know, the pay is horrible, the kids can be more so, and the parents...don't even get me started. Still, there are so many moments when I'm teaching and I feel something happening that's bigger than me or the lesson or the kids...a kind of force that flows THROUGH me, and I know I'm fulfilling some kind of purpose.
I'm passionate about football! My dad worked for Clint Murchison, the owner of the Cowboys back when Don Meredith was quarterback, and then through the Staubach years...when Tom Landry was next to God in my mind. Every Sunday, guess where we were? In the old Cotton Bowl, back before there was a Texas Stadium. I knew all the rules before I was 6.
Lastly, I'm passionate about writing. Where will my writing take me? I don't know. I only know that I must write.

Posted by KML on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 5:21 PM

I'm passionate about Process Improvement. It becomes a sickness, really...the transcendental application of process improvement. I have a corporate experience rich in process improvement to improve business and information systems applications...but lately, I've been passionate about improving our government's processes...after all, we're the client...right?

This will first require an understanding of the current processes...what is the process flow, the roles involved, etc. for how our government is currently operating.

The framers were passionate in their work and were careful with the language they chose...including Jefferson's notion of essentially "A little revolution now and again is a good thing." (Don't quote me!)

*Grin*

...but given the way my mind has been trained to approach the world, everything can be redesigned to work better. We have our goals...we know what we like and what we don't like...and quite honestly, many of the processes and roles need to be looked at in terms of what we NOW have available. I mean...given an internet...why do I need to pay taxes for someone else to speak for me?

So unless our politicians find some way to demonstrate their functionality...

Anyway, I'm passionate about NOT wasting tax dollars...about providing value and service...about being well-prepared and intelligent...about being better...

Life is a lesson in Process Improvement!

Much Love!

Posted by Kringle's Helper on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 5:35 PM

You are great, I love these topics, gets your mind working.
MY PASSION is life, and living it to its fullest.I am lucky to be here,having survived cancer twice , we are all lucky to be here. To be able to wake every morning and embrace what our day is going to bring us. My pasion is my family of course, being Italian, we were raised with family GENE. (lol) My dad comes from 13 brothers and sisters , my only 3 , but every Sunday we wou;d get together at Nonnie and Papa's for Pasta dinner and Bocci Balls, and of course Papa's home-made wine. As kids my cousins and I would sneak in the basement and drink wine from the barrels. The good old days, we all have them of course, When family was family. I have instilled in my 2 kids the same family morals and ethics. blood is always thicker than water. I am very proud of my kids they have done a lot with thier lives, I feel that I have brought 2 lives into the world that will carry on these passions.
Another passion of mine are the mountains , so majestic and regal. I lived in Northern Arizona for 15 years, 10 of them in Sedona. Arizona and the other 5 years in Flagstaff. The essences and spiritualness in this town just throws you back, it gives you no choice but to embrace the beauty and serenity it offers. I went back in 2005 Wow what happened to this little 4,000 strong town. I wept.. so commercialized . I did however get the chance to drive up schenbly Hill ( dirt road ) in time for one of the most gracious sunsets ever...It was just spectacular , made me forget what was back at the bottom of the hill...
Cooking is another passion of mine, ever since I was 4 years old, standing on a chair at my grandmothers stove, making scarmbled eggs with Blue Bonnet Margarine. ( lol ). I love to entertain so I can cook, I put all the love and energy I can into my cooking , and the best part is watching everyone indulge.
I've enjoyed reading all your comments,have a great night all
peace out, Laura

Posted by Laura on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 6:51 PM

Wow, glad I checked out your blog, it is great. What you wrote has inspired and rings true at least for me. Becoming...through Hope, Love, Exploration and Inspiration. The Freedom to roam without a set in stone course, to be completely open to energy as it passes or sticks around, but maintaining a focus on what one is trully passionate about and letting it act as a magnet attracting positive things, keeping in that + zone. Traveling, I've been influenced by many people. Cooking, I've been influences by my friend JP and watching my Father, his Mother and my Grandfather growing up, cooking up meals they were really excited to be preparing for friends and family to enjoy.

Posted by Weaver Highway on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 9:43 PM

P -persistence (my wife actually calls me "Mr. Persistent")
A- allegiance ( I am loyal to that which I have passion)
S-sensitivity ( If it touches my heart, I'm passionate about it.)
S-sacred (doesn't only pertain to religion...family, music, art)
I-invigorating (to be passionate is to be invigorated)
O-originality (Creative originality instills passion)
N-non-negotiable (When I am passionate, it is non-negotiable)

Words I relate to my passions. Try it yourself. :-)

Peace,
G

Posted by Tony Williams on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 1:18 PM

let's see...

music
people
learning

music because i've never found peace in anything like i do with music. MTV was my best friend while i was growing up, 80s <myspace>style</myspace> :)

people because i've never found so many differences in one type of "thing." People will NEVER cease to amaze me.

learning because i've never gotten more joy in anything that learning how or why. Even tho i'm not in school right now, but i plan to.

listening to?

elliot smith and mary lou lords - shake sugaree

Posted by mandiLee on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 6:51 PM

this blog is getting me all PASSIONATE!!! i love it!!!! and all of you!!!! xoxoxxo... it's hard to know how many xxx's and how many ooo's one should display to capture the moment of the feeling in a delayed response forever stamped on another's reality, in their book of passionate understandings, we fly. together. finally.

Posted by Willow on Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 2:16 AM

I believe that one's efforts are magnified expoentially by their passion.

Posted by Chili on Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 8:13 AM

I'm always intrigued by new things. Connecting with people through words, helping others and living are some of my passions.

Langston Hughes, a famous poet said:

Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
Life is a broken winged bird
that can not fly.


Today is Forgive Me Father, It's Friday @ my blog. Go on over to tell me what you are doing this weekend.

Posted by Erika-Nicole on Friday, October 19, 2007 at 8:16 AM

Another coincidence!

Passion flowing in NZ, doing a self study at the moment, VERY interesting..

Like attracts like, passion magnifies and speeds up the process.

Peace, love and don't look back :-D

Posted by Mel on Friday, October 19, 2007 at 8:18 AM

My passions have always been writing about life's situations and how people can turn bad things into good ones, I love meeting people who are ill or down and bring them hope and to realize they are not alone in the world, and I love growing things, seeing the beauty in everything around me and the appreciation that I have for every moment of life I have been blessed with.

Posted by W. Brian Moore on Friday, October 19, 2007 at 8:44 AM

I´ve been thinking of passion and my passion specially. My passion is my work. sounds boring maybe. it´s not everyday and everytime but sometime, when everything works and I forgett my self and just be in what i´m doing. Then I´m that closest to God I ever get and I live for these short and rare moments. I´m an artist.

Posted by Jenny on Friday, October 19, 2007 at 2:48 PM

I think say_tay has it right.... Love is constant and unconditional. Passions come and go, but love embodies all, through good and bad times, success, failure, disappointment. Love, mercy, compassion are innate, while passion is created through external influences, such as Ken Burns enthusiasm about his new series. I imagine he was just as passionate/enthusiastic about the other programs he has been involved with, but that passion has waned somewhat as he moves onto other projects. His excitement inspired his viewers to become enthusiastic - maybe some to become passionate about studying WWII.

Posted by On The Brink of Extinction on Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 2:13 AM

ok so this may seem a little corny but im really passionate about my boyfriend and my family. my boyfriend because i want to see him do the best that he can do and try instead of just sitting in the back seat and watching it all pass him by!...

my family becuase i know that they are always there for me no matter how many times i mess up they will be there to help me and support my decisions!...

someone that would inspire me.. that one is really hard but i think it would be my grandmother and my grandfather who both passed. but i think i would choose them becuase they had so much love in their lives and they shared it with everyone...

Much love

Posted by LOVED on Monday, October 29, 2007 at 4:24 PM