Karen profile picture

Karen

About Me

I'd like to post some photos of myself but I need the equipment to do that, like a scanner, etc. I'll ask around to see if I can borrow somebody's equipment. About me: music is really important to me. When I was 14 years old, I bought a guitar and tried to learn how to play it. It was difficult to do. The guitar strings hurt my fingers, I couldn't play by ear, and had no formal music lessons, except learning how to play the recorder in elementary school. I wanted to be a singer/songwriter. I would play my records all the time. It drove my mother nuts. I played the music loud on her stereo. I would go down to the riverside and sit there, waiting to be inspired to write some songs. I ended up just writing poetry.I located a scanner and yesterday afternoon a friend helped me upload a few of my photos. We had a few trials and errors but that's how you learn. I think it's important when communicating on the internet that people know what you look like and get a sense of who you are. The internet can be a pretty impersonal thing and it's easy to misrepresent yourself. More about me: I'm mostly vegetarian but not vegan. I love plants,animals,flowers,and trees. I've boycotted the meat industry because of the way animals are reared to be sold as meat. They're fed antibiotics,injected with hormones; they're not allowed to roam freely and exercise as they would do in nature. When I go to the Pacific National Exhibition, which is held once a year,it's the pigs that I love to see the most. They say that pigs are intelligent animals.

MySpace Graphics & a target="_blank" href="http://www.msplinks.com/

My Interests

I studied the French language for four years while I was attending university. I took one French course a semester for 12 consecutive semesters. That means I didn't take the summers off and attended classes all year around. I lived and breathed French and today I still have the same passion for the language as I did then. Studying languages is a Sagittarian trait and I'm a true Sagittarian. I like exploring and adventure.

Heroes:

One of the people I admire the most is the late Mother Teresa of Calcutta,India, who passed away the same year as Britain's Princess Diana. She had love and compassion without judging anyone, regardless of their religion. She would go out and help the needy, never asking why and how they ended up in that situation. To her, it was just help the person and don't get into the politics of it. To me, love and compassion are very important.

My Blog

Growing Up With Music

My love of music started in elementary school. When I was in grade one, the class sang "London Bridges Falling Down" and we did a little skit where we bowed down as if going underneath a bridge. Twink...
Posted by Karen on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:33:00 PST

Physical Beauty Is Like A Flower

Physical  Beauty Is Like A Flower Physical beauty is short-lived, transient, and fleeting...and is at its full bloom in youth and fades with the passage of time. We admire physical beauty an...
Posted by Karen on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:13:00 PST