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genespark

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Birthday: August 23

Gender: Male

Religion: Atheist

Location:
Lake Oswego, Oregon
United States

School:
Molson, WA grade School LaCrosse WA grade school Tonasket WA High Deaconess Hospital OTJ Respiratory Therapy Training Program, Spokane, WA Spokane Community Junior College Fort George Wright College of the Holy Names,Spokane, WA Flight schools at Omak, WA and Felts Field, Spokane, WA 1972-3 BCTI computer school, Beaverton, OR

Work:
Chef Holiday Inn West, Spokane, WA. Owner of the Queen's Head Pub, Spokane, WA. Sou chef Mallory Hotel, Portland, OR. Dinner chef Buffalo Gap Saloon, Portland, OR. Chef Riccardos Ristorante, Lake Oswego, OR. Respiratory Therapist at Deaconess Hospital and Holy Family Hospital, Spokane, WA. Respiratory therapist Marin General Hospital, Marin County, CA. Respiratory Therapist Franklin Hospital, San Francisco, CA Retired Chef. Metier northern Italian alto cuccina. Former AARP Pharmacy, Beaverton OR employee. Former Respiratory Therapist, trained OTJ Deaconess Hospital, Spokane WA 1962-4. Ranch hand on family ranches at Tonasket, WA and Toroda Creek

Hometown(s):
Molson WA Tonasket WA Kettle Falls,WA Spokane WA San Francisco CA Sausalito CA Fairfax CA San Anselmo CA Portland OR Lake Oswego OR

My Websites:
gallery.mac.com/genepark
www.mrsbeeton.com/index.html
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXG83p2nkHw

Quote:
Lord Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those whom I had to kill because they just pissed me off

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My Scores (4)

Game	Score
Mah Jongg Garden	156900
Pyramid Solitaire	445
Freecell Solitaire	312
Klondike Solitaire	155

About Me

What a glorious revolution took place November 4. Not one drop of blood spilled by the opposing forces. The only fatalities were the overthrow of incompetence, corruption, malfeasance, greed and avarice. The concept of racial differences was repudiated and confirmed that there is only one race, the human race. If only Abe Lincoln could see his legacy. He could only be proud of what has endured and not been forgotten. Pride was restored to millions of us who had given up or despaired of the direction that America was descending. Once again, in one fell swoop, America regained the pinnacle of hope for all of the suppressed of the world. Once again, America is reclaiming the moral high ground that leads the way of those concepts put forth by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Above all, we will regain and follow the ideals, rights and aspirations that are the Constitution. The depredations of the past eight years of destroying the Constitution are at and end. The attempts of the religious right to impose their febrile hate mongering onto the Constitution are foiled. Now, we Americans can put our shoulders to the wheel and restore our economy and improve the quality of life that has been diverted into the massive profits of the Big Bucks. It is the time to invent the new socioeconomic order. Communism has failed. Socialism has failed. National Socialism has failed. Capitalism has failed. The amorality of the few who have amassed the national wealth into their hands has been exposed and must be eradicated. The precepts of Adam Smith and Karl Marx have failed and are no longer valid in our time. These socioeconomic ideas of the 18th and 19th centuries are no longer valid in the 21st. A new path to finding peace and prosperity and the ennoblement of the human spirit must be found through the desolation and the failure of the past eight years.

Interests:

Sailing, Packard Motor Cars, Citro�ns, flying, cooking, writing and travel

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Sourdough

1988 Citroen CXA Prestige 2500, photo by Gene Park

Pelican, photo by Gene Park

Pelicans, photo by Gene Park

Pelican, photo by Gene Park

BankAmericard, photo by Gene Park

Park Bench by Gene Park

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Grace

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A Handful of Light

A HANDFUL OF LIGHT

by Gene S. Park @

A Handful of Light
To stop a molecule of light
To measure the atom as you
Stand in the rush of light that
Coursed the Universe at
Absolute

Bent, pulled but un-stopped
A gale wind of light that washes
Over, through, absorbed but

What is the essence of a beam
Of light, whole or hole—nothing
Or everything? So small or so large
Un-measurable while

The echoes of the Beginning
And the End waft through
One’s soul whispering the voices
Of the ages for this infinite instant

Added: August 18, 2008
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Comments (8)

Cby says:

Hi Gene,
I bet you enjoyed driving around since the meltdown, without slush and snow bumping up the intersections. I loved the snow must I love it more now that its just a fond memory!What are your plans for tomorrow night? Do you bring in the New Year big? Or are you like me and let it slip in beside you while you sleep? LOL I can never keep my eyes open to meet it at the door

Posted: December 30, 2008 9:30AM EST