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Married

Hometown

Born-Charleston, SC but 45 years in Metro Atlanta

Places I've been

Lived in: Dacula, Snellville, Stone Mountain, Atlanta, Tucker, Doraville, Georgia - Charleston, SC - Enid, OK - Bedford, MA - Dracut, MA - Harmony, RI - East Lansing, MI - Favorite vacation: Navarre Beach, FL - Visited: Italy, Quebec, Nassua, Cozumel, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennesee, Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Michigan, Washington, DC, New York,

Education

• Georgia State University, Government Administration, HR Personnel - 1973 to 1977

More about me

Welcome - Namaste' (Na - ma- stay)
A Sanskrit word used as a salutation or blessing.
Can be translated as "the divine in me honors and blesses the divine in you, in truth, we are one, the I A M.

Thus I also believe ~ we are not human beings having a spiritual experience... We are spiritual beings having a human experience!

I am PhoenixSpirit - having chosen many challenges for myself in this life - I have faced those Fires and been Reborn. 
I was born old and am on the path to becoming younger everyday by listening to my inner spirit. 
I prefer to go my own way and not to lead or follow.

After a slight detour, I married my high school sweetheart and he has been a wonderful father to my two sons.  I have been blessed to have a man who loves me for who I am and whether he will admit it or not we have a psychic connection. 
My two boys are grown and incredible human beings.  I am honored they consider me not only their mother but also their friend. 
I have always felt children should be treated with both respect and as the complete souls they are - not less than adults because, they have less current life experience.  

I am Intutive and have felt I have had to hide a part of myself because there have been very few people in my daily life who understood and were not threatned by my spirituality, my passions, and my openess to new (or very old ideas), especially in the world of work.  I have worked with and for children for over 25 years, (which is a very "conservative industry").  As I get closer to retirement I feel the need to develop my abilities and follow their guidance more closely.

I am curious about EVERYTHING, can be Naïve - but also a bit of a Cynic.  I strive to Simplify, am Hopeful, an Optmist, and look for Joy in everything.  I try to treat everyone with Kindness and give all the benefit of the doubt (because we don’t know what their personal path, battles and challenges are.)
We are here to Learn our Lessons, Assist all we can and be an Inspiration or the Angel to all of those who need us.  I believe in Death and Life and our choice of Reincarnation.
I don't believe in Religion I believe in Spirituality ~ This is the path for seekers who have gone into their own minds and souls to seek their own truths and not rely on the dictates of those who may have their own agendas.  I have been amazed at how few people are willing to follow this path.

I love the way our experiences and heritage come together to color our thoughts and the people we become.
I learned to read at age 5 (and like Matilda) devoured every book I could get my hands on including the Book of Knowledge. My favorites sections were all of the mythologies of the world (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Norse, Celtic.)  In those days school librarians only let young children borrow books from certain sections and only come every 2 weeks regardless if we were ready for new ones. True happiness came to me when I was able to purchase my own books and to use a library whenever and however I wanted. Thus began my true education…
My mother was Italian - "came over on the boat," at the end of WWII, as an Army War Bride. Her being new to America and her war experiences had a profound impact on me. My father was her second husband.  He was stationed in Charleston as an Air Force pilot/navigator when they met. His culture was French but his family had been in the New England area from Quebec almost a hundred years.
I was his only child, an "AirForce brat" born in the Charleston "Naval" hospital and literally came "Feet First" into this this Life and into this World.
My father told my mother I was here to take care of her, when he could not. And I believe he knew that he would not be.

My father passed when I was a baby (just 15 months later) but his parents were both the stablizing influence and the rocks I clung to during a very turbulant childhood. My mother remarried for the third time, when I was four, and stayed in a very unhappy marriage because that is "what proper Italian Catholic women did".
She had six other children most of whom I raised, both while I was still at home and then when she passed at the tender age of 50.  She was an intelligent and open minded woman in many ways, but the cultural and religious limitations she imposed on herself made me question everything as I came of age in the 70s.

After many frustrating discussions with my priest (age thirteen) and more intense study into the history and the spiritual beliefs of other cultures, I stepped away from our church... My concerns were/are that most organized religions and their dogmas are the perpetrators of many of our worlds ills - Crusades, Inquistions, Burning Wise Women, treatment of Native Americans, India under British rule, almost every major war, the Holocaust, currently the Middle East...- and they use fear to turn people into SHEEP - afraid to think or stand up for themselves.

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."

I am happy to find EONS - a place to discuss, to question and to explore all subjects...
It is almost like going back to college.

Activities

Living and Loving with Family and Friends, Researching Life, Reading Everything, Thinking, Writing, Meditation, Astrology, Tarot, Goddess, Spirituality, Karma, Transformation, Reincarnation, Old Religions, Mythologies, Ecological awareness and service, Earth Service, Gardening, Creative design, Decorating, Boating...

Favorite Charities

Images and Photos" /> Red Cross, United Way, American Cancer Society, Susan G Komen

Favorite Music

Southern Rock, Loreena McKinnett, Sarah Maclachlan, Bonnie Raitt, The Who, Eagles, Stevie Nicks, Allman Bros., Crosby, Stills & Nash, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Creedence, Clearwater, Revival, Cream, Eric Clapton, ZZ Top, Marshll Tucker, Aerosmith, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, U2, Coldplay, Boston, Foreigner, Charlie Daniels Band, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Seger, Queen, Rolling Stone, Beach Boys, Mamas & Papas, Steve Miller Band, Springsteen, Pretenders, Led Zeppelin, Steely Dan, Police, Little River Band, Doors, Van Halen, James Taylor, Joan Jett. I enjoy almost everything except RAP, I just feel like I am being yelled at.

Favorite TV Shows

Rarely have time - almost none until TIVO, so now there is something to watch when I do have TIME - I love intelligent comedy, science, mystery, drama, history, paranormal, anything that pulls me in, makes me think and question. - Daily Show with Jon Stewart, House, Heroes, Lost, Jericho, Saving Grace, NCIS, Grey's Anatomy, Criminal Minds, Bones, Numbers, CSIs, Ghost Whisper, My Name is Earl, Supernatural, 4400, Moonlight, Pushing Daisies, 30 Rock, Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles, Doctor Who, Dresden Files, Journeyman, The Unit, Medium, Kyle XY, Burn Notice, Eureka, Shark, 24, Oprah, Nova, Feed Your Mind

Favorite Movies

LOVE THEM my VICE: Thomas Crown Affair, Serendipity, Medicine Man, Red Violin Last of the Dogman, Crash, Abyss, Harry Potter, Dogma, It's a Wonderful Life, National Treasure, Green Mile, Count of Monte Cristo, Day after Tomorrow, Terminator, Matrix, What Dreams may come, Mission to Mars, Xmen, Mummy, Legend of Bagger Vance, Long Kiss Goodnight, Van Helsing, Star Wars Remember the Titans, Pirates of the Carribean, Miracles, Lara Croft, Kill Bill, Independence Day, Armagedon, Frequency, Double Jeopardy, True Lies, Saving Silverman, Sweet Home Alabama, Reign of Fire, Lord of Rings, Titanic, Mr&Mrs Smith, Notebook, Net, Natural, Field of Dreams, Good Will Hunting, Paycheck, August Rush, Indiana Jones, Village, 'Til there was you, Antitrust

Favorite Books

Fantasy most Favorite, Mists of Avalon, Dune chronicles, Anything by: Nora Roberts/JD Robb, Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, Christine Feehan, Stephenie Meyer, JK Rowling, Weis & Hickman, Heinlein, Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Tolkien, Julia Cameron, M. Williamson, Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Clive Cussler, HG Wells, CS Lewis, Vonnegut, Eckart Tolle, Carolyn Keene, Illusions, The Stand, Lightning, Watchers, One Door away from Heaven, Best Laid Plans, The Darkest Evening of the Year, The Secret, When going through Hell: don't stop, Wheel of Time series, Clan of Cave Bear series, Killing Gift, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Time to Kill, Rainmaker, The Postman, Earth, Diary of Anne Frank, Alas Babylon, Peter Pan, Wrinkle in Time, Forgotten Door

Favorite Quotes

"We need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly." Shakti Gawain, "I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings" Mozart, "People living deeply have no fear of death" Anais Nin, "Be Brave enough to live creatively. What you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself." Alan Alda, “When I get a little money I buy books; if any is left then I buy food and clothes." Erasmus, "I cannot live without books" Thomas Jefferson, "You gain strength, courage and confidence, by every experience in which your really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt, - Seed Inspiration, Nurture with Passion and Life blooms abundantly.

Favorite People

My husband, my children, and family and friends including: my soul sister AT, and my cousin sister AMT, - BBD, LSJ, GB, CG, TCW, JWC, KRS, RDB, LB and PFB. Inspired by: NFBFB & RWF, Florence & Bill, Ezio & Alduina, EPM, PB, MD, KJ, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Leonardo da Vinci, Oprah, Angelina Jolie, Jackie O and my favorite authors.

Favorite Places

HOME, Navarre Beach, Any Porch looking over the Lake, my children's homes, Dracut, Biloxi, Charleston

Favorite Animals

All that I have ever met... Currently in Love with my Raven Hermoine, Jasper, Maggie and Mabel, oh yes an Velcro too...

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