I am a creativity junkie... attracted to abstract ideas and concrete solutions... Drawn often into senseless debates when my passion is sparked (usually about music or socio-economic issues) until my brain registers it as a senseless activity to which I cease and desist immediately and walk away. I love music, all types, all genres indiscriminately... I write in spurts, I'm a start up junkie, resident shiny object girl. I like to paint, take pictures, write poems and start stories I don't finish.

I like to cook. I think I'm pretty good at it, but then again, I'm the only one who tastes it, so I am extremely biased in my own favor.

I light incense, burn candles, drink single malt scotch, eat, pray and love out loud.

I like people, except when I am in hermit mode, then I don't want to be around them so much.

I know lots of people, but have very few friends. I like to travel. I love the ocean and find mountains fascinating. They don't do much, but it doesn't stop me from wanting to stare at them.

My favorite city to date is San Diego, but that is subject to change once I finally make it to Firenze

I suffer from High Self Esteem. I have a big ego that is routinely pruned, but it doesn't stop me from thinking I am, well... close to spectacular!

I am exceedingly (ha, FF word!) normal in my uniqueness. I open my mouth and sounds come out.

Thank you for caring enough to read my ramblings.

Favorite Books: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Sassafrass, Cypress, Indigo by Ntzoke Shange; The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou; The Awakening by Kate Chopin; Sula by Toni Morrison

I prefer Shakespeare's Comedies to the Tragedies (Though I love Macbeth)

Random Written Things That I Like... Quotes and Such

'We are not and cannot be separated from God because our being is innately one with the whole of Divine Consciousness. We can’t go anywhere but within our own nature to realize the truth of our own nature in God and find the reality that is our true Self. We can’t go out and get It when we are already It. We can only work to remove whatever is obstructing our realization of already being It."
LM Richardson

...Learn to win a lady's faith
Nobly, as the thing is high
Bravely, as for life and death
With a loyal gravity

Lead her from the festive boards,
Point her to the starry skies
Guard her, by your truthful words,
Pure from courtship's flatteries
~EBB

"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, non but ourselves can free our minds"
Robert Nesta Marley

SONNET 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

"The enemy of "the best" is "just fine" - unknown

"Any two people can fall into each other's arms and find that they enjoy the feeling. But to fall into someone else's mind--now that can be dangerous." Roger Ebert

Sonnet 46
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie --
A closet never pierced with crystal eyes --
But the defendant doth that plea deny
And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
To 'cide this title is impanneled
A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,
And by their verdict is determined
The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part:
As thus; mine eye's due is thy outward part,
And my heart's right thy inward love of heart.