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| User: | andabusers (9175) 
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| Name: | hanjabanja |
| Location: | my own special world with butterflies and flowers and fireflies, United Kingdom |
| Bio: | 
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look. I beseech you to look!
Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.
Welcome it, grasp it, touch the angel's hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there, the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Our joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.
Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven.
Courage, then, to claim it, that is all. But courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.
And so, at this time, I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.
(24th December, 1513, from a letter to Countess Allagia Aldobrandeschi by Fra Giovanni)
If I've friended you and you're wondering who I am, I probably met you in the pub the other day.
http://odeo.com/sendmeamessage/Hanjabanja
Contacts post for the worthy. |
| Memories:: | 50 entries |
| Interests: | 140: a thousand clowns, adriana, adrianne, alias, amajuba, ani difranco, anne rice, anouk, anthropology, archaeopteryx, aretha franklin, bad movies, bad tv, baroque flute music, being kind, being logical, being super, being tied up, being worhsipped, benny & joon, billie holiday, books, botany, butterfly boucher, cake, cape cod, charity, cheese, christene ledoux, common mythologies, constriction, corrosion of conformity, corsets, csp, dar williams, deep blue sea, desperate housewives, dinghies, ecology, edinburgh, ella fitzgerald, erin mckeown, essence, estuaries, ethnobotany, flightless birds, folk songs, folk tales, goddesses, gods, google image search, handcuffs, hats, henry david thoreau, hotel rwanda, indigenous rights, jacques ibert, jess klein, jessica tandy, johann sebastian bach, kakapo, kiwi, kiwi the bird, kiwi the fruit, lake placid, lara croft, leadbelly, leather, legends, lost, louis armstrong, lucy kaplansky, mahalia jackson, marine biology, marine ecology, marsupials, michael gum, milla jovovich, money-making schemes, monotremes, moths, nellie mckay, new zealand, nirvana, old books, old wives' tales, oliver platt, oxford, piroshki, playing the guitar, poetry, polycystic ovarian syndrome, pvc, python, rajendra singh, rare birds, ratites, red hot chili peppers, resident evil, richard evans schultes, rize, rope, satin, scanning electron microscopy, shamanism, shark attack 3: megalodon, ship's knots, singing along to ballads, songwriting, spirits, stephen vincent benet, story telling, superheroes, superstition, the inside, the wizard of oz, tori amos, trace fury, tracy chapman, travel, travel literature, travelling, tribes, turlock, tying people up, vandana shiva, vin diesel, volunteering, wade davis, walter rothschild, waquoit, wartenberg wheels, water, whale rider, wilkie collins, witchcraft, women kicking ass, woolliness, your mother, zoeas |
| Schools: | Cherwell School - Oxford, England - Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Frideswide C of E Middle School - Oxford, England - Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh, Scotland - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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| Friends: |  | 210: | 0olong, __whitetrash__, accordingly, adrenalineanima, aliiis, andabusers, andlosers, andrewducker, andys, angelevie, anjylle, ascension_club, ashfae, atropinesulfate, averybadmum, babydyke_82, bassresistance, bastard, bespoke, bete_noire, birdonawire, bitospud, bitterlace, blackworx, boxninja, brainlag, broonie, bunnyphone, cairmen, casca, celiaka, cheekbones3, childlaborcheap, chuma, colours, concourse, coolestabi, cosmicdjester, cracker9, cybergnome, cybik, dalglir, dalglivk, damnitnicole, dangerouslysane, decomposingsoul, dee_, difazio, difranco_fan, diotina, dirtylaundry, djw, dopedolljunkie, dragal23, dreamaline, dreema, e_halmac, eastbayted, easytiger, edgar_web, eduard_green, emptyplace, euryleia_pics, eviljammy, faerycake, feorag, figg, fire_sermon, fizzyboot, fleurione, frozen_gold, furrywookie, galaxy_girl00, gareth_expoodle, gary_the_bigbad, gethrees, gingerfifer, girl_onthego, glass_bubblegum, gnomatron, guyinahat, hardcore_pixee, hayley, headinclouds, henriksdal, honestwaffle, hughe, hyzenflay, ibbs, ipotane, is_not_well, ishkhara, jahoel, jinxremoving, judestar, juliedawson, justbepatient, kangaroo, kimya_dawson_, kitaroh, kizeesh, kovo42, kyleminus2, kynon, lacuna, leila_child, lenses, leviathus, licoricelaces, like_a_lamb, likeneontubing, lizzie_and_ari, luckylove, lunanocte, magenta_wings, magsmanston, marrog, martling, meowpurrr, mirukux, missmetoxit, mlle_satine, mononitrate, moosedevil, moosical, mopani, moussaka_thief, neferet, negativecowgirl, neriedes, nickys, nightshade, nurseoi, oblivious, octopoid_horror, ophelia_complex, ophiuchus, phantom_wolfboy, pinkoi, pipistrelle, poggs, poisonduk, poplife, protocol_rain, pthime, pusscat, queen_of_ocd, rankenphile, raya, red_phil, redshira, reticentdream, rosaleen, ross_the_boss, scratchmeharder, selectnone, seren, sexy_sophia, shadowedtour, silverclear, simonchapman, sirlemonjello, smellslikecher, sneaks, snowberries, somaboy13, spacelem, sparkle, spudtater, squeeky_jane, steel_spine, stephaniewalker, stormclouds, stranger_daze, surliminal, svenno, sweet_innocent, tardigrada, teleute, thatcute, the_beast, the_hat, theauldhoose, thecakeblog, thechristophe, thedeathcrow, thelovebug, therealq, thewaternixie, theweaselking, thisismyorange, thorn11, time_for_tea, tisme, trukkle, typical, ultraviolet, undeadbydawn, vile_albert, vlen, vodafone_guy, welikegoats, whatbettertime, widowinparadise, wilmaring, wooha, writergrl, xanta, yaarg, zombywuf |  | 66: | adore_milla, alchemy_class, alchemylab, alt_edinburgh, anthropologist, audioeng, baaaaabyanimals, bad_movies, badtattoos_4, bibliographic, bibliophilia, bout_a_spoonful, capecodphotos, celtic_ogham, cinema_crappo, club_cyberia, corsetmakers, corsetry, crackhaussanta, cryptozoology, csp_support, depravitycake, dusty_pages, ecologists, ecologydiscuss, edgar_society, edin_students, edinburgers, edinburgh_pics, ethnobotanpharm, feminist, folkfans, freaksofnature, freeteens, fury_teareth_up, googleimage, healthyeaters, highcstofliving, i_lick_markers, i_like_carbs, inklings, leebaby, lostmarsupials, luthiers, marine_maniacs, oooooldanimals, pcos_journal, pcos_weightloss, photobooths, powerofmyth, righteousbabes, scotsactivist, so_very_doomed, steamfashion, symbols_archive, tell_herstory, temp_scotland, theoccult, turlocksucks, u_of_edinburgh, uk_makeup, ukbookswap, ultraviolet_art, used_books, vegrecipes, your_mom_daily |  | 11: | benblog, benphotoblog, bruce_schneier, cuteoverload, cyber_device, explodingdogrss, modchenblog, peeg, photodiary, redmeat_rss, roseadventures |
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| Friend of: | 223: 0olong, __whitetrash__, accordingly, adrenalineanima, aliiis, andabusers, andlosers, andrewducker, andys, angelevie, aruggs, ascension_club, ashfae, atropinesulfate, averybadmum, babydyke_82, balintuna, barbedwirehurts, bassresistance, bastard, bespoke, bete_noire, birdonawire, bitospud, bitterlace, blackworx, boxninja, brainlag, broonie, bunnyphone, casca, castle_grove, celiaka, cheekbones3, childlaborcheap, chuma, colours, concourse, concretediction, coolestabi, cosmicdjester, cracker9, cybergnome, cybik, da_hudsons, dalglir, dalglivk, damnitnicole, dangerouslysane, decomposingsoul, dee_, delphi23, difazio, difranco_fan, diotina, dirtylaundry, djw, dopedolljunkie, dragal23, dreamaline, dreema, e_halmac, easytiger, edgar_web, eduard_green, elysium, emptyplace, euryleia_pics, eviljammy, faerycake, feel_the_image, feorag, figg, fire_sermon, fizzyboot, fleurione, frozen_gold, furrywookie, galaxy_girl00, gareth_expoodle, gary_the_bigbad, gethrees, gif, gingerfifer, girl_onthego, gluebaby, gnomatron, greenghost, guyinahat, hardcore_pixee, hayley, headinclouds, henriksdal, honestwaffle, hughe, hustheone, hyzenflay, iamwearingahat, ibbs, icefacade, instigationplus, ipotane, is_not_well, ishkhara, jahoel, jinxremoving, judestar, justbepatient, justsophie, kangaroo, kitaroh, kizeesh, kovo42, kyleminus2, kynon, lacuna, leila_child, lenses, leviathus, licoricelaces, like_a_lamb, likeneontubing, lizzie_and_ari, luckylove, lunanocte, magenta_wings, magsmanston, marrog, martling, meowpurrr, mirukux, missmetoxit, mlle_satine, mollusc, mononitrate, moosedevil, moosical, mopani, moussaka_thief, neferet, negativecowgirl, neriedes, nickys, nightshade, nurseoi, oblivious, octopoid_horror, ophelia_complex, ophiuchus, oriongo, ... |
| Member of: | 81: adore_milla, alchemy_class, alchemylab, alt_edinburgh, anthropologist, arsenicfashions, art4sale, audioeng, baaaaabyanimals, bad_movies, badtattoos_4, bibliographic, bibliophilia, bout_a_spoonful, celtic_ogham, cinema_crappo, club_cyberia, corsetmakers, corsetry, crackhaussanta, cryptozoology, csp_support, daily_runway, depravitycake, dusty_pages, ecologists, ecologydiscuss, edgar_society, edin_students, edinburgers, edinburgh_pics, ethnobotanpharm, faeriefashion, fakehair, feminist, folkfans, freaksofnature, freeteens, fury_teareth_up, give_stuff_away, googleimage, healthyeaters, highcstofliving, i_lick_markers, i_like_carbs, inklings, jgarner_daily, leebaby, lostmarsupials, luthiers, marine_maniacs, menstrualhut, niceboots, oooooldanimals, paidmembers, pcos_journal, pcos_weightloss, pcosupport, photobooths, powerofmyth, recordingstudio, righteousbabes, scotsactivist, sewing, sewunderground, so_very_doomed, steamfashion, symbols_archive, tell_herstory, temp_scotland, theoccult, tsuk_feedback, turlocksucks, u_of_edinburgh, uk_lip_service, uk_makeup, ukbookswap, ultraviolet_art, used_books, vegrecipes, your_mom_daily |
| Account type: | Paid Account, previously an Early Adopter |
