I write a weekly Gardening Article which is published in two rural newspapers... it gives me an outlet for the written word. I organic garden, raise and breed spectacular English Mastiffs. My husband and I enjoy touring gardens for ideas and inspiration. I'm an avid reader, and appreciate a good essay. Besides being an antique myself, I collect them.
Music
Falco,Eurythmics,Enya,Death Cab for Cutie,Bright Eyes,Green Day,Regina Spektor, The classics from the '70's and '80's, Nine Inch Nails,Bach,Carl Orff, Country... I love music and my Ipod.
John's house rabbit, George
Movies
Sci-Fi, Willow, The 13th Warrior (because it is a true story as recorded in the oldest preserved dairy in the world; the diary was a casuality of the American bombing in Baghdad and is lost forever) Brotherhood of the Wolf is always good. Practical Magic is fun and Four Rooms is hilarious. Rainman, because our kids were in the farmhouse scene. Any fantasy flick from the 1980's...they were wonderful. I could critique movies: they should reveal a story to you without you having to read a review about them. Movies are visual story telling and should unfold into a wonderous tale.
Television
Dr Who is my favorite (gotta Love David Tennet)and any other sci-fi.
Books
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a favorite. He should be read by everyone...instead of the Bible. I have 5,000 books in my home library containing information I find interesting: Harry Potter, carpentry, gardening, first editions of Tarzan, Anne Rice's Vampire sagas, Leary's The Tibetian Book of the Dead, a collection of all of the classics listed on the obsolete 'College Required Reading List', and even a set of Shakespeare published in 1850, complete with steel engravings. Many of my books are over a hundred years old. I categorize my books according to subject matter and have books on almost anything you would wish to study. I'd rather lose the friend who failed to return a borrowed book than lose the book. I miss my unreturned books.
Heroes
Anyone who is willing to stand up and tell the truth regardless of the consequences...and those who take punishment for telling it 'like it is' without whining, are exceptional. I love logic, hate lies, believe in magic, and respect those who follow an intellectual path of peace...unless it becomes too absurd to continue. Most of my heroes "died penniless" and I find it a truism that thoughtful, heroic people are rarely into collecting money.
AND IT WAS MORNING AS GOD STOOD BEFORE HIS 12 CHILDREN, AND TO EACH OF THEM HE PLANTED THE SEED OF HUMAN LIFE. ONE BY ONE EACH CHILD STEPPED FORWARD TO RECEIVE HIS OR HER APPOINTED GIFT.
TO PISCES..."I give the most difficult task of all. I ask you to collect all the world's sorrows and return them to me.Your tears are to be ultimately My tears.The sorrow you will absorb is the effect of people's misundestanding of My Idea, but you are to give them compassion that they may try again.For this is the most difficult task of all,I give you the greatest gift of all.You will be the only one of my 12 children to understand me.This gift of understanding is for you Pisces,for when you try to spread it to humankind they will not listen".
ENDANGERED SPECIES: HONEYBEE
About me:
I Have ancient degrees in ethnology and cultural anthropology and have been with the same man since the seventies. After college we moved to a deeply rural farm in what would later be called the "Back to Earth Movement". We have lived a quiet philosophy of staying in step with nature, never taking more than our share, attempting to tread lightly on the earth. I practice spiritualism and respect the beliefs of other cultures and never discount possibilities.
Who I'd like to meet: Interesting people... gardeners, cooks, writers, seers and spiritualists. Folks with good karma, a sense of humor and a keen wit.
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. Peace and Love Cath Pass the Rolaids Jimmy
Severe flooding here and over Europe, hurricanes and flooding in the US, extreme snow in China, heat wave in Australia. People are talking of weather of "biblical proportions". It does make you wonder. The flooding here is certainly worse than 2005 and 2007 and there seems to me to be an escalation in severity of weather across the world. Yet we still have many people who consider Global Warming to be a myth and Governments who appear to actively block attempts to take effective measures to combat it. I am sure we are only seeing the start of what will be an increasingly extreme winter across the northern hemisphere. The warnings have been there for years, yet the measures taken to protect lives and property have been paltry and as in now clearly apparent, largely ineffective. I really do not know what it will take to shake people out of their complacency. But suspect we shall soon find out. Scientists talk about a tipping point when increase in the severity of weather becomes unstoppable. This point of no return may be closer than we think.
And on that happy thought (!), I am off to the forest. If this weather continues, I think I had better start looking for a cave to live in! I hope it has an internet connection!
“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.” xoxoxo
LOVE JIMMY♥
