A.J.

Try to be in the Now! I am an Indigo Adult which can make life a little dicey but interesting as well....My physical life finds me hovering at an altitude of 6010+ ft. most days, I am currently living in Wyoming but that could change. I've been a high end residential interior designer here for last 15 yrs. Quite the oxymoron as I try and get lots of dollars from clients to buy stuff while the bumper sticker on my truck reads "NEED LESS". May need to consider yet another career change.****I spend much time in pursuit of my own inner journey and study to educate myself about the actual "truths" of the world, there are so many deceptions out there, we need to "Wake Up" folks!! It takes a certain amount of work to do the research and find your own truth, BUT I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO DO THE SAME. Once you find it you will know what I mean. I now see myself living between worlds, do you who is reading this ever feel that way??.... I enjoy being in the mountains and feel lucky to live in such a beautiful place, it calms and excites me at the same time. Many critters around here (buffalo, elk, moose, bear, etc.) Are we not sometimes happier just to live among the grace and beauty of the animals that surround us in our lives? They remind us how to live exquisitely in the now and in our hearts.****Anyhow, jobwise, before that I was a paralegal (had originally planned to be a paralegal in Rapid City in Native American Federal Law and Environmental Law) but ended up at a firm in a Wyoming specializing in medical malpractice and product liability. I had graduated as a paralegal with honors from Widener Univ./DE Law School. It became time to put my knee back together and it was literally in an intuitive dream I got the message I needed to head to Wyoming where I utimately had surgery. I had had a messed up knee for years from old lacrosse injuries, so I just drove here from Delaware, never was here before and didn't know a soul. I set up camp and had surgery. Knee doing good**** Before that I spent too much time partying with my beloved gay male friends in Chadds Ford, PA (some of them really do require alot of hand holding, it can get exhasting but complements will get you everywhere!) It became a problem when you ask someone what they do and they answer by telling you who they know. How many Divine movies can one be expected to watch back to back? These guys loved to hear my stories of wild South Dakota, especially they liked to hear about the "winktes", the Lakota name for gay men Indians. The winktes were considered to be very wise as they were thought to have wisdom of both man and woman. They often were the ones who gave small Indian children their names. I was asked to repeat these stories over and over again much to their delight.****Did a lot of farm sitting for people that didn't just have hamsters or dogs, but horses that needed to be worked, pigs to slop, goats whatever. It was during this time I learned about driving horses (singles and pairs)which is quite different from riding. I developed a love for this mode of travel, there was an abundance of trails all over the place. The different carriages, some of them antiques and exceptional harnesses.*** Before that I was flying in antique planes (mostly a Tiger Moth an English trainer biplane) to airshows. I did not pilot this or other warbird aircraft, but that's not to say I didn't often control the stick, heh,heh - actually I started taking flying lessons when I was 15, years before this. Nothing like having to get my mother back then drive me to small airports in PA and Cape May, NJ only to get in a plane and take it off myself. I loved to fly but never got my license, my priorities were all over the place. Anyway during this antique plane phase of life, I got way into dirt biking and worked excercising polo ponies, Did a year+ at Univ. of Delaware and graduated with a degree in Arts and my, my but wasn't I was sporting some serious attitude back then I must say, and was asked to leave a couple of classes, I found it difficult keeping my mouth shut (which still presents a problem from time to time...most organized religions, hypocrisy, those with false senses of entitlement, politics, 9/11, 2012, don't get me started...!) I was back living with the so-thought rich and famous and the transition really played a mind trip on me and forced me to look at myself and others in a new perspective. Here I had just come from 3 years of living with Oglala Sioux in South Dakota with serious issues going on to then be with a wealthy guy in PA., who unfortunately was so clueless about goings on in the world. I had just come out of living in such different circumstances, possessions at that time were the fiddle, a good pair of cowboy boots and my Toyota Landcruiser. Did I compromise my need to educate all others about what I'd experienced and the work to be done? I rebelled on many levels but I eventually got suckered into the toys... okay, okay so I was a hypocrite but at least I knew it. I got into a really bad riding (horse) accident just after this period of my life, luckily I was wearing a helmet but it cracked and they are made not to crack. I suffered head, face, back and neck injuries. All finally healed but I had a lot of time to stay quiet and think...which is important to do from time to time, and there were new lessons to be realized.****Before that time I lived in South Dakota attending Black Hills State, Oglala Sioux Community College on Pine Ridge Reservation, Sinte Gleska on Rosebud Reservation all in a period of three years. Witnessed some wild stuff in those days, a separate reality no doubt, my study of Don Juan through Carlos Castaneda gave me a good foundation to "see" and experience this. Have you ever heard of shape shifting? Supported AIM (American Indian Movement) at Yellow Thunder Camp, etc., learned enough Lakota language to get by and between the partying and schooling I basically gave away all my possessions as I saw I didn't need them anymore except for my fiddle, couldn't part with that- also did artwork, quillwork, beadwork among other things during this time and was given a lakota name by Lakota friends. I learned what it was like to be the only different one on other peoples turf and gained a tremendous amount of respect for the Native Americans in our country, their plight, their problems and I still try to keep up with their continuing issues. Leonard Peltier, what you've endured. PLEASE NOTE: I will not and do not claim to be any type of expert on Oglala/Lakota Sioux, I made the effort to spend three years of my life with them back in the early 80's because of an inner calling. The truth is the more I learned and knew in my experiences among the People, I realized there was only that much more I still needed to learn and understand, this is part of what I hold with me today.****Still trying to peice together all the events of my 21st birthday, that police report just couldn't be right. Spent a night in the Deadwood jail and in my efforts to talk myself out of the situation I literally lost my voice. Soon after somebody stole a bunch of my artwork at Black Hills State, may that weasel dick deal with karma on that one!!!****Prior to this I did one year at Colorado State University for Animal Science but was not asked back. Crazy and dangerous times. I did somehow manage to stay active in the livestock club and I became a certified Colorado sheep shearer. Not a total waste of a year for me but close. What was I thinking? More later....