Relationship
Domestic partnership. Interested in meeting people for friendship and meeting people for networking
Hometown
San Fernando Valley in Southern CA
Places I've been
I was born in Los Angeles, raised in the Valley but I'm not a "Valley Girl" type. I lived in Eugene, Oregon from 1984-1986 then moved to Guerneville, CA in Sonoma County, L.A. city, The whole San Fernando Valley, day trip to Seattle, camping at Mammoth Lakes, Santa Barbara, CA,Big Sur and small towns in Northern CA, also San Francisco. I love trees and flowers and ocean, mountains,all animals or living beings and communing with nature.
Activities
Love and care for my animals, church activities at United Centers for Spiritual Living, learning to draw and paint, beading, jewelry, crafts, selling my jewelry, photography, reading books on spirituality, selective novels, writing and speaking, walking, riding bicycle, music, songwriting, friends, bead, craft, art, lapidary shows, learning and observing, some tv, gardening, I love fish as pets, cats and dogs, birds, visit insects and snails in the yard (which I periodically relocate), observe nature. Motorcycling (haven't moved up from the rear yet), razor scooters manual and electric, ping pong, wind-up toys, jokes, e-mail, book & arts and crafts stores, horses, animal sanctuary visits. Go to the beach. Swimming pool, sit on dark green lush grass. Walks with friends or my lover.
Favorite Charities
Best Friends Animal Sactuary, Gentle Barn, PETA, ASPCA, support of the arts, anything that helps people (who can't afford to) to study music, arts, or other creative expression. Aids causes, Salvation Army, Goodwill, battered women and kids, and recovery houses.
Favorite Music
The old Classical, piano, violin, harpsichord, orchestral, opera & theater, standards (swung), some jazz, esp. piano, Judy Garland, be-bop, motown, classic rock, pop, modern country, spiritual, inspirational, some contemporary Christian like Casting Crowns, some Amy, Deanna D'Amico, some Chapman. Other: Thornbird, Ella Fitzgerald, Ellington, Sue Raney, Aretha, Streisand, talented unknowns, oldies. Andrew Lloyd Weber, Gian Carlo Menotti. Most recent theater: Wicked, Edward Scissorhands, Hair Spray.
Favorite TV Shows
Oprah, Medium, Ghost Whisperer, Monk, Closer, Psych, Law and Order, Dead Zone, Without a Trace, Cold Case, X-Files, Kid Nation, Animal Planet surgeries and Rescue stories, Wife Swap, Super Nanny, Clean House, Mission Organization, shows, PBS informative or creative, spiritual, Jay Leno (one of few comics that can actually make me laugh. Esp: Headlines, Man on the Street, and opening jokes, Conan O' Brien, (like the act where the unseen dude's voice sings uncomplimentary stuff about people and Conan acts surprised. Learning Channel, Kerry Shook, Joel Osteen. Some tv land. Are you smarter than a fifth grader? Sometimes South Park and this adult cartoon with a kid that says, "Butter, that's me!"
Favorite Movies
Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler, Chicago, Westside Story, Steve Martin: esp. The Jerk and the one where he shares the body with Lily Tomlin, Hairspray; profound-message type movies.
Favorite Books
Classics: Great Expectations, Tolstoy's Ressurrection, Dummies and Idiot Lines. Art instruction, Kristin Hannah novels, Joel Osteen's books, Wayne Dyer, Ernest Holmes, the Bible, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Jewelry Making, precious metal clay and beading books, instruction books, science and quantum physics, Suze Orman, music instruction, mostly piano and ukelele and bass ukelele, Dr. Oz., history of religions and current religions and spirituality, photography instruction and photos
Favorite Quotes
the Persistence quote, Mother Teresa's Do It Anyway and the one abbrev. When we finally commit ourselves, Providence moves, too. Lots of Jesus quotes, ML King Jr.: "The ultimate tradgedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people." "War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow." "We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." Buddha: "He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye." Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time. It ceases through love... " "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense."
Favorite People
My vet, my therapist, Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jay Leno, Jim Carrey, Sidney Poitier, Richard Gere, Oprah, my friend Eric, our nieces, Scully and Mulder, myself, Rev. Marc, more later. All my animals and most animals in general. Jane Goodall.
Favorite Places
Santa Barbara, Guerneville, San Francisco, Big Sur, Trinidad, CA. Carpenteria. I haven't been many places. I think Seattle and parts of the state, parts of Oregon but not to live there. My family was from New York and I've never been there. I'd like to go sometime with a guide. Beaches.
Favorite Animals
All the ones I have had and do have now. Many different ani species: dogs, cats, horses, birds, fish, hamsters, rats and mice, rabbits, monkies, some insects. Pigs, cows, chickens, goats, llamas, pot-bellies, miniatures.