allenssister's profile

Eons member since

Dec 23, 2006

Age, Gender

64, Female

Location

Aurora, CO

Relationship

Single

Hometown

Denver - to continue: life he has led. 70 years old, disabled, living on social security. I went to visit the following summer and to make it short we have reconnected and I've Christmas and summer since.My greatest dream is to help him

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High School Name (City, State) East High School, MA from Univ. of Colo. I look forward to this website as it seems to be sincere. No games. I am a sincere, thoughtful person who enjoys simplicity. Poetic by nature, I see people and the world from a sensiitive eye. I am very frightened by the world situation and wonder if we'll ever get out of this mess, return to the golden rule, stability and compassion. I abhor violence, physical, verbal, emotional. I abhor the greed which seems to be the rule, but I also see great good. College Name Univ. of Colo. Time has passed by so quickly and "I have miles to go before I sleep." I am not a traditional religious person, but rather spiritual. I believe in a Divine Spirit and a level of being after this one. I do not like to think about losing my identity because I like Vicki, how she talks, acts, sees things. I want to be me forever. I am a creative individual with a bent toward the theatrical. Since I retired I've had hard time finding an outlet for my skills. I think of a theatre group College Graduation Year 1969. to continue: group but it scares me that I won't remember my lines. I love to read rich stories to children and tell stories. I tried Toastmasters but found it too structured and confining. Well, I'm getting boring no doubt, so will end here. Maybe later I will want to write more. Love to hear from you. College Graduation Major/Concentration English/philosophy Occupation(s) Teacher - 30 years. Neophyte entrepreneur.

More about me

Me, Vicki, a 63 year old (ouch! how did that happen? I truly can't believe it. I don't look it, I don't act it, I don't think it, I'm really 39!) retired middle school teacher living in Denver, Colorado. I had not seen nor heard from my brother in 35 years when I decided in '04 to look him up on the internet. Wow! There he was. I sent a letter with some things of his and said that I would be pleased to hear from him but it was his choice. Surprisingly he responded. Oh, what a hard, tragic life he (continued on rest of page to left)

Activities

Reading, (before my hip replacement: hiking and crosss country skiing--I loved skiing so much), movies, writing, playing with my dogs, concerts, plays, music (the oldies, plus music of the 60's and 70's, folk music, Celtic, some jazz, classical), being quiet, singing badly, going to the bars in little old towns and talking with the locals, going to the mountains, watching leaves fall, flowers bloom, children laugh, storytelling, reading to children (always a teacher at heart), bicycling, talking politics and religion and other controversial topics, volunteering

Favorite Charities

Denver Dumb Friends League, Lakota Indian School, Heifer International, crises when they occur, like Katrina, people with tragic stories to tell, friends

Favorite Music

See above

Favorite TV Shows

the oldies like Carol Burnett, Mary Tyler Moore, etc., the good movie channels, documentaries

Favorite Movies

The English Patient, Babette's Feast, Waitress, Lawrence of Arabia, anything with Robert Deniro, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman, Laurence Olivier, Greta Garbo, Katherine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Sissy Spacek, Jessica Lange, etc. I love smart, good-looking, warm-hearted movies or ones that are just so compelling. Hate Horror.

Favorite Books

Anna Karenina, Andersonville, Out of Africa, Grapes of Wrath, anything by Carson McCullers, Willa Cather, Truman Capote, Chekov, W. B. Yeats, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Ray Bradbury, Rainer Maria Rilke, etc.

Favorite Quotes

Life is what you make it, always has been, always will be." Grandma Moses. " If you're going to compromise, compromise up." Eleanor Roosevelt. "All is change, all yields its place and goes, " Euripides. "There is a courtesy of the heart. It is akin to love. Out of it arises the purest courtesy in the outward behavior, " Goethe.

Favorite People

Maya Angelou, Bill Moyers, Elie Weisel, Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther King, Jr., Hafiz, Bobby Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela, Teddy Roosevelt, Joseph Campbell What a dinner party these would make!

Favorite Places

A cross country ski trail when it's snowing; mountain meadow full of wildflowers; a comfortable chair in front of a fire; Ireland; Switzerland; Italian Dolomites; Independence Pass; Glacier National Park; ski trails in Yellowstone; the drive above Creede, Colorado; Sangre de Christo Mountains; Chasm Lake near Long's Peak; the Vermont countryside; Mendocino, California; Oregon; Washington; Savannah, Georgia; Charleston; New York theatre district; London's West End, etc. I'm ready to go!

Favorite Animals

Dogs, dolphins, whales, endangered species, elephants, birds. etc. I cannot stand to see animals die, even though I know it's all part of the Plan.

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