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Steven

Practical but Passionate Pisces

About Me

I'm a health care administrator and erstwhile opera singer with new age/neo-pagan beliefs who's still not quite sure what he wants to be when he grows up. An idealist feeling increasingly stranded in the real world--or BushWorld--I distract myself from my existential dilemma by lifting weights, going to the opera, ranting about the lies, arrogance, and excesses of the Bush administration, listening to music, reading novels, practicing energy medicine with a small group of clients (including animals), throwing pots, drinking wine, being terrorized by my three dogs and two cats, and spending time with my long-suffering partner of 20 years."I am Water/I am the Pond/Shaded and serene/I am the calm, the listener/I am the mystic/I seek the solace of the soul....I am Water/I am the Whirlpool/I am the conflict of opposites/The struggles of confusion/The challenge to resolve." - from "Pisces' Song," by Will Chasserau»-(¯`v´¯)-» Design your MySpace with MyLook «-(¯`v´¯)-«

My Interests

Opera, theater, wine, working out environmental activism, dogs and cats, energy medicine, health care reform, travel, civil liberties, contemporary fiction, animal welfare/spiritual healing, politics (leftist), pottery on the wheel. In addition to my academic training, I'm certified as a second-level Reiki practitioner as well as an energy medicine practitioner (the latter by the Fire and Wind Institute of Energetic Science and Heart Centered Healing in Tappan, NY). I have also studied telepathic communication and spiritual healing for animals with renowned animal communicator Joanne Beth Seere. -------Receiving a healing at the Fire & Wind Institute:

I'd like to meet:

Like-minded political, artistic, and mystical types
You Are An INFP
The Idealist

You are creative with a great imagination, living in your own inner world.
Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships.
It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close.
But once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop.

You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist.
You Are a Hunter Soul
You are driven and ambitious - totally self motivated to succeed
Actively working to achieve what you want, you are skillful in many areas.
You are a natural predator with strong instincts ... and more than a little demanding.
You are creative, energetic, and an extremely powerful force.

An outdoors person, you like animals and relate to them better than people.
You tend to have an explosive personality, but also a good sense of humor.
People sometimes see you as arrogant or a know it all.
You tend to be a bit of a loner, though you hate to be alone.

Souls you are most compatible with: Seeker Soul and Peacemaker Soul What Kind of Soul Are You?

Music:

Opera/classical--favorites include Berlioz, Mozart, Handel, Verdi, Debussy, Ravel. Broadway musicals pre-Andrew Lloyd Webber; e.g., Follies, Company, Gypsy, Mame, South Pacific, Pal Joey, Showboat, anything Gershwin, Berlin, Porter, or Rodgers and Hart.

Movies:

Hollywood classics from the 1930s and 1940s. Favorite actors: William Powell, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Ronald Colman, Rosalind Russell

Television:

Don't watch it

Books:

Contemporary and classic fiction: Philip Roth, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Iris Murdoch, Paula Fox, William Faulkner, E.M. Forster, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anne Tyler, Toni Morrison

Heroes:

My partner for tolerating me, Gandhi, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Keith Olbermann, Buddha, Anna Moffo, Jon Stewart, Leontyne Price, Stephen Colbert, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Larry Kramer, Birgit Nilsson, Alfred Kinsey, Renata Tebaldi, Maher Arar, Montserrat Caballe, Bill Moyers, Shirley Verrett, Paul Wellstone, Tatiana Troyanos, Dennis Kucinich, Arthur Rubinstein, Ethel Merman, Joan Morris, my numerous therapists

My Blog

Saddam's Appalling Execution

A drop into the abyss Saddam jailed me but his hanging was a crime. Iraq's misery is now far worse than under his ruleHaifa ZanganaThursday January 4, 2007 GuardianAt 3.30am last Saturday, I was abru...
Posted by Steven on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:12:00 PST

Shame over the war in Iraq

This was on today's Salon.com.  It certainly summarizes how I feel these days.... Shame What we have done to the Iraqi people can never be undone. But there is one small gesture we can make: Apol...
Posted by Steven on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:46:00 PST