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Benjamin Franklin said, "Where freedom is, there is my country." I could say the same, though I have a particular fondness for Lithuania, the Netherlands, and for France.
Languages: English, Lithuanian, a little French and German.
Countries visited: Canada, Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Lithuania, Great Britain among others.
People I have admired: Diogenes, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Jean Moulin, Madame Curie, Charles de Gaulle, Jeanne D'Arc, Albert Ellis, George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, Gandhi, Buddha, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Clarence Darrow, Emma Goldman, Nelson Mandela, and the Lithuanian partisans who fought so bravely for more than 10 years against Soviet oppression.
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United States
Occupation:
teacher/educational psychologist
Interests:
mountain hiking; travel, particularly in Lithuania, Western Philosophy -- Aristotle, Diogenes, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Meister Eckhart, Voltaire, Thomas Paine, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bertrand Russell, Existentialism; Eastern Philosophy -- Buddhism and Zen; Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and Education; World War II history.
Movies:
Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai; Elia Kazan's East of Eden and Viva Zapata; Paul Verhoeven's The Black Book; Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amalie; Cacoyannis's Zorba the Greek; Costa Gavras's Z;Casablanca; Hitchcock's Vertigo and Notorious; Lean's The Bridge over the River Kwai;
Music:
Landa's Morituri Te Salutant; La Marseillaise; Les Miserables; Beethoven's 3rd, 5th, 9th; Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli's Time to Say Goodbye; Celine Dion's Titanic; Dave Brubek's Take Five; Bob Dylan's early songs, and Uz Laisve, Tevyne ir Tave (songs of the Lithuanian partisans).
Books:
Huxley's Brave New World; Voltaire's Candide; George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan; Albert Ellis's A Guide to Rational Living; Williams Styron's Sophie's Choice; Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith; Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward; Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn; Erich Maria Remarque's books; Stendhal's The Red and the Black; Zen Flesh, Zen Bones; Romain Gary's Promise at Dawn, Dang Thuy Tram's Last Night I Dreamed of Peace.
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Tribute to the mighty Baltic tribes, who fiercely resisted against Christian crusaders many centuries after all the rest of Europe had been converted.
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Recorded for John Freedman's "Theater (Plus)" culture blog on the website of The Moscow Times.
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