dianas dynamic reviews

A college educated, loving, kind-hearted, authentic, smart, funny, feminine woman looking for true friendship, meaningful life, a great career. I’m part introvert, part extrovert–I like being with people just as much as enjoying being by myself. I’m sensitive for sure, but have backbone without a doubt. I feel for you; I feel for me. I’m gentle, yet fierce.
Traveler, explorer, foodie, writer, nature lover, active outdoor enthusiast, dancer, singer. Love exploring museums; art appreciator. I like being in the kitchen–when I want to be– just as much as being outside doing something active. My interests truly are varied.
I’ve never been one to do things just because of group think so to speak, but because I know I want to participate in whatever it is I’m choosing to do. I’ve always asked why, and why not…… Often a lone wolf by choice if I disagree, which doesn’t lend itself to being popular for popularity sake. I’m mostly intrinsically motivated anyway. Curiosity is truly at the heart of who I am. I think it’s literally in my DNA. Contemplative, analytical, sometimes spontaneous; sophisticated, yet down to earth. Not a rhodes scholar, far from a retard….harhar……..Don’t assume you know me from spending little time with me, or ‘put me in’ a box and label me….I don’t fit in any box. Boxes are for keepsakes, not people.
I’ve meet people in my life, who I believe think they know me, based on what I heard them say, how they behaved, assumed they knew why I said something, and labeled me rude or disrespectful to a certain culture. Their perception, obviously….has this person ever heard of cajoling in a devils advocate sort of way, in the spirit of curiosity. Complexity of thought and multidimensional while being succinct, is that rude? If someone is saying something to me assuming my intellect is on one level, when the reality is really it’s on another level is actually being rude to me, Not the opposite, don’t ya think? Look at it from a mathematical perspective, anthropological one, cultural, or historical from whatever set of reality is true for me or them. Too convoluted for you? Three dimensional people are not simple people. Too smug, borderline smug? I don’t appreciate being spoken to as if I was a child, I’m not. I don’t appreciate being spoken to, meaning speak, don’t speak down to me for whatever reason you feel the need to do that. Perhaps you’re offended I’m smarter than you realized? Communicate with me, do not speak at me! There is nothing wrong with my hearing, perception, cognition, or sight—literally or figuratively speaking.
Lover of freedom; I speak my mind, but I certainly understand diplomacy. Part traditional woman, part rebel with a cause. I detest injustices in this world.
Aspiring writer, amateur photographer.
Love meeting new people; however, I distain inauthentic people; I read people really well. People who behave as if they want to be my friend, but then communicate negative things about me–seemingly ‘behind my back’– or say things about me that they don’t know is true or not, especially if I’ve never shared my heart with them, will never be my friend of any sort. Defame me or disrespect me in any way and my patient kind nature will turn like the weather in the springtime. If I don’t have rapport with someone and they pretend to have rapport with me communicating something to get a reaction, they will never have my trust, friendship, or anything else. I make ‘friends’ easily but true friendship is trust, respect, and love personified through action.
I’m a serious person, but I know how to have fun without a doubt, and I laugh an authentic genuine laugh that speaks truth. I can be contradictory for a purpose, or not. Comedy speaks truth through humor from heartbreak, or not.
Communicates well with people from all walks of life, and likes to hear others’ stories, but I also do not compromise my own morals, values, opinions. I’m empathetic, but I don’t suffer fools lightly. I’m a patient woman, but have no tolerance for anyone who cannot look me in the eye.
I hold fast to what I know is true about me in my heart with regard to many topics.
I’ve spoken to many people in my life & can get at the heart of the matter fairly quickly. I have the ability to read between the lines, and ‘see’ someone’s heart. I have no tolerance for inauthentic stupidity, or contrivance of any sort. My perception is incomparable.
I’m really sexually attracted to men, straight men, men who have integrity, kindness, decisiveness, and are manly–he is secure with himself. He needs to know how to treat a feminine woman right.
I’m turned on by deep manly voices, strong hands– a manly man who has a tender kind heart, who knows how to communicate verbally & physically. I will not abdicate my life over to anyone, but will certainly be the loving woman that I am to someone who respects and loves me.

I admire people who speak their mind truthfully through love and light with no hidden agendas. I admire my own strength from experiences, and through God. I’m far from a religious zealot, but believe what I know. If you feel the need to say I’ve lost my mind, go ahead…..you are in fact entitled to your opinion, but I do in fact, have a right to protect my reputation, and I’m entitled through freedom and the grace of God to express myself also. You may dislike or even hate me, go ahead, but you do not have a right to stalk me, defame me, invade my privacy in any way, or contrive negativity stemming from your hateful heart. I will get my point across through all medium to express, and protect my life if I need to.

THAT…..IS……. who I am, and what I know to be true about myself.

Happy New Year, and here’s to the optimism that a new decade will bring great things and much joy and success.

Merry Christmas.

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better person.”

~ Benjamin Franklin

10:15 pm EST

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

The UN’s General Assembly 64th session met on July 20th, 2009 to address the progress on the eradication of poverty throughout the world. The report that was generated from this meeting speaks about macroeconomic and social policy and how the constructs within these elements directly or indirectly effect the multidimensional aspects of what poverty really is.  The statistics tell us perhaps one thing, and the reality tells us another.

According to the World Bank, the bottom line dollar amount of what constitutes the poverty line in 15 of the poorest countries around the world stands at 1.25 a day per person, per day. This World Bank criteria is not based on The United States rate of inflation, for if it were, the estimates for what constitutes poverty in the world and within the US would probably be much greater than the statistics that have been compiled to date would have us believe. (I won’t include charts and graphs from the UN’s report)
What relevance does this have to the US poverty or not, according to the people who met in Geneva on that July day, and who met 8 years previously to discuss such topics. Their goal in all of this reporting is to halve the global poverty rate by 2015, not in the reporting, but in discussing the specifics of what has been accomplished, and what still can be accomplished to reach this elusive poverty free world. We are 5&1/2 yrs away from this ‘goal’ as a global world, do they think we will reach this goal?

That is their question, mine is: Do we rely on the statistics to tell us the reality, or do we compile the truth in a much different way. I’m all for statistics in as far as giving us a gauge, one tool, in our understanding, and efforts to work towards change–I loved my “Psychological Statistics” class in my Junior year of college, which was ironic since I was horrible at many other forms of math. I did in fact enjoy this class, understood it, therefore did well and succeeded, earning an A. Again, somewhat ironic since I was never considered particularly adept at ‘math’. (Sarcasm intended)
However, as the author of the UN report points out, the multidimensional aspects of poverty can be gauged in many ways that go beyond statistics. People are obviously at the root of what we are talking about here, so it stands to reason to obviously look at how people are living, and why they are living the way the are. The political systems of the 15 poorest countries have only empowered their citizens to a certain extent. The intrinsic worth of a person no matter where they reside, either by choice or default cannot possibly hold a monetary value currency. Can it? This is only one aspect of the multidimensional layers of what constitutes poverty around the world, within the US as well. Can we place a value, the intrinsic value of a person, and that one person who makes up ‘whatever percentage’ of their individual community around what the World Bank deems that person to be worth or not to gauge the poverty line of those 15 poorest countries?

Based on this article, according to the author, the growing inequality between the richest countries in the world and the poorest has widened significantly since 1980. We’re talking 29 yrs here folks. So, macroeconomics that take into consideration aspects such as training unskilled laborers, educating women in country’s where they may not have made it a priority to be educated, individual land ownership, and of course, sustainable employment to boost the local economy helps to reduce the overall poverty of these countries as well the overall statistics of what poverty really is?

Is the Millennium Development Goals of halving poverty by 2015 realistic, and how does the USA factor into this goal according to the Geneva UN committee who compiled this report? We are presumably one of the richest countries in the World. Other countries look to us as an example of what is possible, and what should be possible for all people?

Based on all accounts we are in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression and what we do here in the USA affects people elsewhere? Where do we find the balance between helping ourselves here, and abroad?
Not knowing enough about the laws of import and export through these 15 poorest countries and how that relates to the USA, I question what other political regimes are doing in their country to affect their citizens, and how the non-free societies will evolve, progress or regress prior to 2005 levels, and 1980 levels of what constitutes poverty, and how the politics of, quite often, what are dictatorships within these poor countries, affect US policy makers and the people who directly decide what macroeconomic factors prevail.

More on this later.

Dynamic Diana 12:11am EST 10/18/2009 (10/17/2009)

According to many, Columbus was not the first to discover our great land, although many history books tell us differently. He had set out to find a route to east Asia, not knowing that the Pacific ocean existed–many only believed the Atlantic ocean lay between just two continents thought to exist at the time, he landed in the Bahamas and inadvertently and I suppose serendipitously ‘found’ the America’s.

Much negativity has apparently surrounded his legacy in recent years concerning his place in our history books and collective hearts of what it means to have discovered America and the possibilities that exist when we venture out on any new quest. The explorer, adventurer and American individualist in us can relate to his need to see what was beyond his own shores and set out into the unknown to improve his life and the lives of his fellow countrymen, and the world. Presumably this was the case according to what I remember learning years ago in school. In ‘googling’ to refresh my memory of the roots of why and how we celebrate or not this day, I happened upon a few articles and websites that are, what may be considered controversial surrounding how this day is viewed very differently by many indigenous peoples throughout our great and diverse land.

There is a movement of sorts, and I personally don’t know how long or fervently this has been taking place, by indigenous people to not celebrate Columbus day, which to many of us in the non indigenous population–which probably would mean everyone who is not of native American origin– has simply become a paid day off from work. I’m currently one of the unemployed so I, today anyway, I am looking at it differently.

I suspect that many of us do not reflect more than a moment or so how this day, from some 517 odd years ago–according to an article from the library of congress– on the meaning and how ones’ individual or collective actions can affect a population of people for generations. Their cultural, historical, economic, and anthropological implications is abstruse, and reflective from particularly 2 perspectives.

What prompted my research, if you can call it that, was an email that was sent via a singles social group whereas this person wrote about setting off on an adventure and not finding what they thought they would find, but rather, something different, perhaps better than what they originally thought they were setting out to find, specifically with regard to their own personal ‘list’ if you will regarding finding the attributes they desired or thought they desired and found something different, something better, a path that was leading them to a different set of outcomes in their life. Now, it may seem a stretch on comparing Christopher Columbus’ journey to someones’ own personal love life quest, but I found this persons’ perspective interesting, and thought provoking to the point of attempting to write my own article, in keeping with my goal of becoming a political opinion writer, or op-ed I guess is the correct way that professional, well written experienced opinion writers call themselves.

This pondering on the meaning of Columbus day lead me to numerous articles written by various people. An article written back in 2006 in a publication in Colorado, by what appears to be a man of native American decent piqued my curiosity with regard to how ‘they’ view this day, compared to –I’m assuming– most of the rest of the country. His article spoke about “the myth keepers of Columbus day” and how “The League of Peace and Power” which was known to the native American people as The Iroquois Confederacy, which stems from Native American writings, in part helped our forefathers write The Constitution has become misconstrued and bent to justify occupying and taking over other countries. The analogy that he makes speaks about how-according to him-our democracy is becoming myth according to the Patriot Act perverting it and reasoning to dominate, subjugate, and colonize countries such as Iraq and Palestine. I’m not sure I believe this, or not. So if we are to compare Columbus’ travels to America 517 years ago to Americas’ ‘travels’ to Europe, and middle eastern countries for the purposes of plundering, and forcing ‘our’ ways onto a seemingly very different culture that views their world from a different construct, can we, do we, how do we, work towards peace throughout the world.

Again, in keeping in part with the theme in my other previous articles on this blog, the questions are: How does President Obama, and other peacekeepers in this country and other pan-American countries, and all the countries that recognize Columbus day, how do we, they, whomever, work for peace while respecting cultural and historical aspects of ones’ culture that we are trying to help all in the name of world Peace? That is my question, dear reader. Please, express yourself. For if the beauty of our Constitution is to remain the way I believe our well meaning forefathers intended, it is called Free Speech!

However, small or large a part that Columbus set out on 500+ years ago with perhaps one goal in mind, and not knowing the profound implications his desire to utilize Ferdinand and Isabella’s money to discover a new world would take him; it took him to places he probably couldn’t have imagined it would and probably never new the enormous impact his fleet of 3 ‘little’ ships sailing off into the sunset would take him.

Nevertheless, if he brought disease back to Europe, he may unknowingly set off a chain of events that lingers 500 years later affecting many lives, hopefully more positively that negatively.

Here is to Columbus, the Constitution, Native Americans, non-native Americans, and the ability for anyone to write what they want without fear of being thrown in jail.

My question to you Dear Reader, again is: do we work for true Peace, or do we sail off into the sunset and hope we find what we think we will find?

Dynamic Diana’s Reviews 1:10am EST 10/13/2009 (10-12-2009)

Just for fun

2:43 am EST Dynamic Diana

“No good deed goes unpunished”.

I wonder what this really means?

Some would know I suspect.

Spying is not a loving act.

Love is Love, and Hate is Hate.

Peace. 4:08 EST

Dynamic Diana