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Lori (Cricket Queen)

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

If you want to know me, look inside your heart. ~Lao Tsu

My Interests

My most favoritest plant, Wild Yam, Dioscorea villosa:
Plants and trees, starry nights, learning, loving, art of all kinds, photography, tattoos, herbalism, tea, making up new words, laughter, music, booty shakin', meditation, 5 element acupuncture, field botany, gardening, pacifism, thrift stores, birds, animal skulls, junk yards, rusty things, weathered wood, abalone shell jewelry, psychoneuroimmunology, chaos theory and quantum physics, doing the right thing, developing compassion, living in the moment...
Disinterests: unrequited love, anything that disrespects native peoples, racism, bigotry (of any kind: sex, religion, body type, etc.). And poodles.

Click here to "Choose a better you" and learn "How to yell at a Liberal":
Become A Republican (don't worry--it's a satire)

I'd like to meet:

Artists of all types. Fellow plant lovers. Old friends.
And this giant rabbit:

Music:


Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, Bjork, Black Sabbath, Coldplay, The Cult, De la Soul, Dead Can Dance, Dead Kennedys, Devo, DeVotchKa, Bob Dylan, Jane's Addiction, The Killers, Bob Marley, Van Morrison, New Order, Niyaz, Parliament/Funkadelic, Radiohead, The Ramones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Run DMC, Sex Pistols, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, The Sword, Talking Heads, A Tribe Called Quest, Velvet Underground, White Stripes... sitars, drumming, ethnic...

Movies:

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Big Lebowski, Star Wars trilogy, Kevin Smith films...

Television:

Simpsons, Family Guy, Arrested Development, Lost, American Dad, Battlestar Galactica
Don't watch the "news,"
watch the truth: www.democracynow.org

Books:

The Harry Potter series and the His Dark Materials series. Anything by Toni Morrison or Robert Sapolsky.

Heroes:

Leonard Peltier.
"Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is a message, just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out & resonate in every word & every deed. Yes, become who you are. There's no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message."

United Plant Savers.

My Blog

What its all about

As long as you operate from a place of anger rather than love, you are perpetuating all that you despise in the world.
Posted by Lori (Cricket Queen) on Sun, 04 May 2008 09:46:00 PST

what its like to have peace of mind if youre me

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!FINALLY.p.s.  i've finally accepted that i'm really healed and have no more cancer (faith), AND i've gotten confirmation that someday i will be with the person i love. ...
Posted by Lori (Cricket Queen) on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:53:00 PST

what it's like to find out you need more cancer treatment if you're me

All of the pathology tests from my surgery came back negative, which means that there was no trace of cancer cells in normal tissue.  So, I've been swimming in the joy of painless, tumorless tong...
Posted by Lori (Cricket Queen) on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:41:00 PST

what it's like to have cancer if you're me (updated)

So it started with what I thought was a canker sore, back in August when I was preparing for my move to Colorado.  It would heal, come back, heal, come back... I figured my immune system was just...
Posted by Lori (Cricket Queen) on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:06:00 PST

Another stupid survey

Name:  Lori Birthday:  December 19, 1971 Eye Color:  brown Hair Color:  now it's a mixture of reds Height:  5'5" Right Handed or Left Handed:  right Your Heritage:  ...
Posted by Lori (Cricket Queen) on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:48:00 PST

saying goodbye to landmarks and dead relatives

so... today, on my way home from nana's house in PA, Isaid goodbye to some landmarks that have given meeither a chuckle or a feeling of comfort over theyears. not that I'll never see these places aga...
Posted by Lori (Cricket Queen) on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:22:00 PST

"Toward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences"

Google TechTalks August 8, 2006 B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. has been a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism since 1970. He is currently seeking ways to integrate Buddhist contemplative practices and West...
Posted by Lori (Cricket Queen) on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:33:00 PST

What is Herbal Medicine? / What is an herbalist?

Herbal medicine, used for thousands of years, is still the most widely used system of medicine in the world today. It is used specifically to support the healthy structure and function of the body. It...
Posted by Lori (Cricket Queen) on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:56:00 PST

FUN HERB FACTS

FUN HERB FACTS:1. WormwoodWormwood, Artemisia absinthium, native to Europe and Asia, is the chief flavoring ingredient in absinthe. It is used medicinally (in small doses) as a bitter digestive aid an...
Posted by Lori (Cricket Queen) on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:55:00 PST

How Jedi are you?

how jedi are you? this is a very male-centric quiz, but if you replace references to leia and padme with han solo or obi wan, it still works....
Posted by Lori (Cricket Queen) on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:56:00 PST