itsabeautifulday's profile

Eons member since

Sep 22, 2007

Age, Gender

61, Female

Location

Chicago, IL

Relationship

Married. Interested in meeting people for friendship

Hometown

Chicago

Places I've been

Never lived anywhere other than "Sweet Home, Chicago", but among the places I love to visit are: New Orleans, Gettysburg, Charleston SC, Smoky Mountains and am always up for a road trip

Education

• Loyola University of Chicago, English - 1980 to 1989

Work

• Proof Reader - Self Employed - 2001 to 2007
• Loyola University of Chicago, Rome Center Coordinator - 1980 to 2001
• MANY MORE JOBS AND PLACES! - 1970 to 1971

More about me

• Born in the first "Boom" year of 1946.  Had an average youth for one born in that era, but always thought a bit independently from everyone else in my family.   Always off the radar from everyone else.  A Beat, a Hippie, a yoga-practicing, peace-loving, 1st-birth-order, over-achieving bundle of contradictions who loves to laugh at having the blues.  Tastes - especially in cultures and in music -  are about as eclectic as it gets.  Live and let live.

• Married in 1967.  Had a problem sharing the same space, so I moved out and we get along better now.   Who said love had to be painful?

• Worked fulltime from 1965 to 2001, experienced mobility problems and began receiving disability.  Still getting around with use of a cane, but moving more slowly than I'm used to.  Grateful for what I can still do, and learning to let go of what I can't.  Always looking forward to the next good laugh or the next road trip.   

 

Activities

HOBBIES & INTERESTS: I have maps and Atlases everywhere in my home. I can spend hours at a time on Google Earth. History (esp. Am. Civil War, years of Industrial Revolution, The French Revolution, and England's Victorian Era), History of Geisha & Samurai, Photograpy (as an observer), The Paranormal, International Politics and Humanitarian issues, Law & U.S. Constitution, Literature, Film (esp. Film Noir and Classics) Theatre/Ballet, Music, Scrabble, Political Humor, tending to my Spiritual Self, Meditation, Camping, Chicago Cubs, Tarot and Totem Animal Symbologies. Learning to speak Italian. Cats, animal welfare.

Favorite Charities

Local Chicago No-Kill Animal Shelters; The Animal Rescue Site, the Rainforest, Literacy, Hunger, etc. Sites; The Innocence Project; Center for the Wrongfully Convicted (Northwestern U. Law School); St. Jude's Children's Research; Pipes & Drums of the Emerald Society Chicago; North Shore Animal League; Amnesty International; Shambala Preserve and The Roar Foundation; all Disability Rights org's.; ACLU; Southern Poverty Law Center; all groups against Domestic Violence

Favorite Music

Almost too numerous to list: Classical, Jazz (Be-Bop and earlier-L, H, & R, Billie Holiday etc.). Blue Grass, Classic Country(George Jones). Big Band, Blues, Doo-Wop, Italian Opera, Steve Goodman, John Prine; All 60's, most 70's rock, CSN&Y, Dusty Springfield, Roxy Music & Bryan Ferry, Beatles, Beach Boys & Brian Wilson; The Clash, Soundgarden. Cuban Music: preCastro-era bands; Flamenco, classical Tango. Show Tunes, Film Scores. Anything by Tom Waits, The Pogues, Randy Newman, Emmy Lou Harris, Dr. John, Leon Russell, Loreena McKennit; New Orleans: Prof.Longhair, Wild Tchoupitoulas, Nevilles, Etta James, Zydeco bands, Cajun. Mahalia Jackson, Black & Country Gospel; Irish, Italian, Polka, Klezmer, Native American. Sea Shanties, Union organizing songs, any music of resistance.

Favorite TV Shows

Jami Floyd's Best Defense on Court TV, "In Session" shows on Court TV. Anything documentary about Investigation, Forensics and Autopsies (such as Dr. G - Medical Examiner, Dead Men Talking, Skeleton Stories, Forensic Files, etc.); Keith Olbermann

Favorite Movies

Casablanca, To Kill a Mockingbird, Now Voyager (EVERYTHING with Bette Davis - Jezebel, Watch on the Rhine, Mr. Skeffington, All About Eve, Petrified Forest, etc.), Caddy Shack, Animal House, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Third Man, Plan 9 From Outer Space, On the Waterfront, His Girl Friday, The Best Years of Our Lives, Quiet Man, 12:00 High, High Noon, The Lion in Winter, Suddenly Last Summer, The Dead, Cool Hand Luke, Meet Me In St. Louis, Moby Dick, Radio Days, Big Night, Lawrence of Arabia, Whale Rider, Real Women Have Curves, Monsoon Wedding, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ikiru, The Leopard, Guys and Dolls, MANY MORE! Favorite Directors: Fellini, Kurosawa, Truffaut, Scorsese, Hitchcock, Visconti, King Vidor, Billy Wilder, Polanski, Ed Wood, John Waters.

Favorite Books

Where do I start...

Favorite Quotes

Everything by Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde. "There, but for the grace of God, go I"; "Life goes on within you and without you" - George Harrison; "Live and Let Live"; "Bless It and Let It Go"; "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Favorite People

I AM IN AWE OF THE POWER OF WOMEN, AND I'M SO PROUD TO BE ONE. ORDINARY WOMEN CONSISTENTLY DO EXTRAORDINARY THINGS, YET NO ONE EVER KNOWS. Tom Waits, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Jami Floyd, Bryan Ferry. My oldest and dearest friend, Judy. My ex-husband and Life Partner, Tom. My good friend and helper, Greg. Other heroes are those who have a sense of humor, and value tolerance, diversity, respect, justice, compassion and peace.

Favorite Places

My mind. Wrigley Field. The great city of Chicago in the summertime. Anywhere there's Nature (hills, mountains, etc.). Interesting and old cemeteries. New Orleans, Great Smoky Mountains. Anywhere East of Illinois and nearly anywhere in the South. Gettysburg and all Civil War battlefields.

Favorite Animals

My kitty, Mookie. All my past & present cats. (Rest easy, Mickey - wait for me at the Rainbow Bridge.) LOVE ANIMALS of ALL KINDS! Favorites: Cats, both domestic and the big ones; bears of all kinds, wolves and all wild dogs - any 4-legged creatures that travel in packs. Eagles, owls, dolphins, tigers, hawks, horses and snakes. A special affinity for elephants for their nature and intelligence. ANY ANIMAL WHO IS OR HAS BEEN, ABUSED.

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