Greetings and salutations!

My World
People often ask me what my passion is. I'm not really sure how to respond to such inquiries; not entirely sure what qualifies something as a passion but, to the best of my knowledge, these are the things I would consider to be my passions (in no particular order):

• travel
• writing
• dreaming/exploring
• relationships
• Israel

I've been having some annoying tech troubles lately. Just before Christmas my MP3 player freaked out and I lost close to 3000 MP3s. Around the same time my monitor bit the dust. I managed to recover most of the music, and I picked myself up a new Samsung 913v 19" LCD monitor - so that's cool at least.

A friend of mine recently commented, "while I find your writing to be undeniably open, honest, and daring, I can't escape the feeling that you're hiding something from me, and the entire world." I found that comment to be quite provocative.

Quotes
"I was outside of faith; I was lost. The vampire was a perfect metaphor for that. Christ was looking for me. I read myself into belief, and then found the gift of faith."It's not a matter of following doctrine; it's a matter of believing that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."
- Anne Rice

Links
Wicked funny beer commercial http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1176059812985535666

A stablized, distubingly revealing, copy of the Zapruder film of the JFK assasination
http://newswire.indymedia.org/media/2005/09/824904.mov

Fictional Dreams
In the luring hours
Those first and frigid of the day
I leave behind my dreaming
A rending more than words can say
They miss me there as I do them
Yet sad as I might be
I know that come the evening
They'll be waiting there for me
A comfort in a daylight world
Of those who come and go
My refuge is a place of solace
A peace the earth can never know
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In truth I lost her long before the falling
And in the many now quiet moments
I have come to know the heart of longing
Caught up in memories held in her arms
And waking alone in realization
That even gone, I am held captive by her charms

With Hope,
Joseph