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About Me
Even though Kelly N Patterson is the current Alternative Recreation reporter for the San Francisco Examiner (http://www.examiner.com/san_... she currently resides in Nosara, Costa Rica. Kelly has worked and lived on four continents thus far, serving in the fields of international development (with special focus on primary health care, rural development, income-generation, and education reform), journalism, and teaching. Kelly is a learning-whore; loves dogs; and has to live by a beach (or she gets cranky.)
My current blogs/social media networks:
http://www.examiner.com/x-245...
http://thenonprofitguru.wordp...
http://nosaracoconuttelegraph...
http://www.2camels.com/travel...
www.trazzler.com/kellykarma
FACEBOOK: Kelly N Patterson
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ke...
www.myspace.com/kellykarma
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/KellyK...
Couchsurfing.com: KellyKarma
Tribe: KellyKarma
My current blogs/social media networks:
http://www.examiner.com/x-245...
http://thenonprofitguru.wordp...
http://nosaracoconuttelegraph...
http://www.2camels.com/travel...
www.trazzler.com/kellykarma
FACEBOOK: Kelly N Patterson
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ke...
www.myspace.com/kellykarma
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/KellyK...
Couchsurfing.com: KellyKarma
Tribe: KellyKarma
I'd like to meet
In general, anyone (male and female) who thinks they can teach me something positive and new....or at least share in this great experiment we call life...PEOPLE WHO CAN KEEP UP WITH ME...
But more specifically, I SEEK to meet the following (not in any specific order):
People with boats!
NSO Conductor Emil de Cou
Generous people with lots of frequent flyer miles
People whom have not only read the Kama Sutra, but practice Tantra (teach me!)
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Economists (I have a lot of questions for you!)
Artists (of all media)
Activists (and I learn just as much from my opposition, as I do my peers!)
Musicians
Writers/Poets/Book Lovers
Noam Chomsky
People who work in the non-profit, philanthropic and international development fields
Spiritual People
Comedians
Exceptionally brilliant and/or happy people
People who dance!
Peter Gabriel
Dalai Lama
People who seek to make a positive difference in this world--basically, three-digit numbers in a four-letter world
People seeking to change current US Foreign (and Domestic) Policies
But more specifically, I SEEK to meet the following (not in any specific order):
People with boats!
NSO Conductor Emil de Cou
Generous people with lots of frequent flyer miles
People whom have not only read the Kama Sutra, but practice Tantra (teach me!)
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Economists (I have a lot of questions for you!)
Artists (of all media)
Activists (and I learn just as much from my opposition, as I do my peers!)
Musicians
Writers/Poets/Book Lovers
Noam Chomsky
People who work in the non-profit, philanthropic and international development fields
Spiritual People
Comedians
Exceptionally brilliant and/or happy people
People who dance!
Peter Gabriel
Dalai Lama
People who seek to make a positive difference in this world--basically, three-digit numbers in a four-letter world
People seeking to change current US Foreign (and Domestic) Policies
Activities
Yoga music dancing anything to do with large bodies of water or boats travel quality films books philosophies singing badly in public the arts zen writing world cultures martial arts T'ai Chi quality conversation internal and external exploration "estatic dance" Scrabble volleyball skiing sushi and coffee (but not together!)
Interests
Yoga music dancing anything to do with large bodies of water or boats travel quality films books philosophies singing badly in public the arts zen writing world cultures martial arts T'ai Chi quality conversation internal and external exploration "estatic dance" Scrabble volleyball skiing sushi and coffee (but not together!)
Favorite Music
everything but country--highly allergic to country!
Favorite TV Shows
Daily Show Colbert Report Dave Chapell Show Reno 911 South Park Simpsons The Office (British version) Absolutely Fabulous Sundance Channel IFC Channel PBS Bill Moyers Animal Planet Scrubs Weeds
Favorite Movies
Paris, Je T'Aime, Dirty Pretty Things, Borat Thank You For Smoking Why We Fight Harold and Maude Henry Fool The Unbearable Lightness of Being Mindwalk What the BLEEP Do We Know? anything by Christopher Guest or Charlie Kauffman The Control Room The Corporation Spinal Tap (the original) Willie Wonka's Chocolate Factory City of God Ma Vie en Rose anything with Bill Murray or by Michael Moore I Heart Huckabees Kung Fu Hustle Shakes the Clown Y Tu Mama Tambien Crash Good Night, and Good Luck anything by Kurosawa Mira Nair The Gods Must Be Crazy Henry and June Woody Allen anything with John Cusack, Alan Rickman or Benecio del Toro in it Spielberg One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Brazil anything by Terry Gilliam or Monty Python
Favorite Books
Yes, I go through books like most people go through toilet paper: Tao de Ching (Stephen Mitchell's translation) Tao of Pooh The Razor's Edge Hero with a Thousand Faces The Kite Runner Opening Skinner's Box anything by Aldous Huxley Milan Kundera Dr. Seuss Shel Siverstein Kurt Vonnegut Doris Lessing Umberto Eco George Orwell Nikos Kazantzakis Margaret Atwood Rumi Kahlil Gibran and Krishnamurti The Mosquito Coast Lolita The Origins of Satan anything by Emerson Thoreau Gabriel Garcia Marquez Salman Rushdie Mario Vargas Llosa Pablo Neruda Octavio Paz Camus Nietzsche Le Petit Prince Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Paul Sartre Isaac Asimov (non-fiction) Fritjof Capra Jonathan Swift The Marabouk Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh B.E.Ellis Al Franken Bill Bryson J M Coetzee Chinua Achebe Wole Soyinka Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron The Poisonwood Bible Anais Nin Milton's Paradise Lost The Constant Gardener Viktor Frankl Philip Roth John Irving Lord of the Flies When Nietzsche Wept Kafka Nabakov Chekov Vaclav Havel Nygugi's Devil on the Cross Anne Sexton Bertolt Brecht Oscar Wilde Samuel Johnson The Desiderata Thich Nhat Hanh anything by the Dalai Lama Beyond Beef by Jeremy Rifkin The Tipping Point Heart of Darkness A Clockwork Orange Jorge Luis Borges Cervantes Flaubert Thomas Mann Proust Rilke the Fountainhead Saul Bellow E.M. Forster Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Iris Murdoch The Sheltering Sky Ken Kesey Ray Bradbury The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Coupland Roald Dahl Bluejean Buddha A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond anything by Mark Twain Out of Africa West with the Night David Sedaris Christopher Moore, Freakonomics, Chuck Palahniuk, J M Coetzee
Favorite Quotes
1. For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283
2. To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
3. He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
4. To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 158
5. Graffiti Found on a New York Subway station wall:
“God is dead.” Nietzsche
“Nietzsche is dead.” God
6. Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
7. Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
8. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
9. I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
10. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
11. Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
12. Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel Johnson
13. You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
Samuel Johnson
14. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
15. But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
16. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
17. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
18. If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Oscar Wilde
19. There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
20. When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
21. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
22. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
23. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
24. I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Woody Allen
25. I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
Woody Allen
26. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
27. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham
28. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
W. Somerset Maugham
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283
2. To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
3. He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
4. To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 158
5. Graffiti Found on a New York Subway station wall:
“God is dead.” Nietzsche
“Nietzsche is dead.” God
6. Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
7. Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
8. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
9. I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
10. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
11. Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
12. Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel Johnson
13. You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
Samuel Johnson
14. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
15. But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
16. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
17. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
18. If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Oscar Wilde
19. There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
20. When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
21. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
22. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
23. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
24. I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Woody Allen
25. I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
Woody Allen
26. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
27. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham
28. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
W. Somerset Maugham
Favorite Heroes
Gandhi Steven Biko MLK,Jr. Mother Theresa Jesus Lao Tzu the Buddha Madame Curie Joseph Campbell Michael Moore Dr. Jack Kevorkian the scientist that created Valium Madiba Dr. Albert Schweitzer Dr. Paul Farmer Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Dr. Stanley Milgram Dalai Lama
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KellyKarma
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Costa Rica
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October 24, 2009 00:38:18
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December 28, 2009 13:37:15
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It's complicated
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Straight
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Scorpio
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Expressing Myself
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Some College
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No thank you
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White/Caucasian
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5 feet 9 inches
comments
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☆Starli ™
December 31, 2009 12:24:58
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Bear
December 27, 2009 23:15:32
They did not "fail" in Chopenhagen. They began setting up the infrastructure for transfer of wealth in the coming one world government.
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GOODBYE SODAHEAD
December 25, 2009 07:18:40
Have to comment on your status message.
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MASOUD
December 23, 2009 07:23:35
hay u...
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AmericanMade
December 13, 2009 04:17:06
Mmmm, nice!
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Bigoot
December 11, 2009 02:46:03
You are one lovely lady Kelly and sound like a lot of fun.
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Kyra
December 09, 2009 03:56:32
love your pics!
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Smartkid1
December 06, 2009 20:02:58
moderated...
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john brenni
December 03, 2009 19:58:07
delicious photo :) love to see your lower half.yummo.
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Mrkando
November 28, 2009 19:48:00
While I have yet to read all you have written it seems to me you are one very interesting woman. I have no question but that you are living your dream life. And your photo speaks directly to that concept.
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Puzzler ~Sodahead's 32nd Guru~
November 27, 2009 23:37:02
Have a Gr8 Day! - Drakie333 
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jt
November 27, 2009 17:34:36
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Gulliver
November 27, 2009 04:02:50
Are those counches that you're holding? Could I hear the rush of my blood if I held my ears close?
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mitch
November 26, 2009 12:56:55
nice shells
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Edward
November 24, 2009 23:08:52
i like your photo how about we become soda friends? 
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Bob, the reasonable one
November 23, 2009 13:27:05
ok, is it two seashells? ocean foam? either way, you have your hands full...cute photo...Happy Thanksgiving!!!
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jt
November 19, 2009 18:39:59
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Thank God they failed in Copenhagen! Have you noticed the blizzards around the northern hemisphere? Where's all the searing heat and rising sea levels? Southern England has seen pre-Christmas snow and ice, for the first time in decades! The US is on it's 3rd major blizzard BEFORE CHRISTMAS! Two of which were before the start of WINTER! Wake up and realize you are being scammed.
I will actually be coming to Costa Rica in the next few months. A friend has opened Casa Naranja a half hour from San Jose and wants me to come and see their new place. Have been there many times before and almost ought a place near Samara. It is too bad you had a dud experience at the club.
Don
Have a gr8 day... jt
Welcome to my blogs. Have a gr8 day... jt