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Hello. My name is Joanne and I’m an alcoholic.
No. Not really – but sometimes it's tempting. :-) I am an ethical vegetarian, an animal lover, a tree hugger, an inveterate reader, a knowledge junkie, lots of other things and just an all around nice person (depending on who you ask :-). I’m a compulsive idealist. I dream of the world being a kinder and gentler place...but like others who have had the same dream, I know that means first making the change in myself. That and a lot of hard work. So, in my own little way, I try to make my world as good as I can and I try to do as much as I can to make the world in general a better place for all beings and trust that, in the end, it all means something.

I hope that you find something of interest or enjoyment or enlightenment here and that if you do, you will let me know. I’m always eager to meet new friends and learn new points of view.

Life really is an exciting journey...and isn't it grand that we have this medium in which to share it!?!?!


I read somewhere that words are the voice of the heart. I think that must be true because for as long as I can remember, I've been inspired and motivated by the written word. I've included some of my favorite works in my Blog section so that, if you choose, you can enjoy them too. Here are two passages that have been particularly meaningful to me over the years because, I think, they highlight the magic in "ordinary" lives:
I was born to catch dragons in their dens
And pick flowers
To tell tales and laugh away the morning
To drift and dream like a lazy stream
And walk barefoot across sunshine days.
~~James Kavanaugh in "Sunshine Days and Foggy Nights "


and this from _Anne of Green Gables_:
....if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!


And, if you haven't guessed,
My MBTI type is INFJ

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I've always been fascinated with the idea of ...... 

The SCHOLAR GYPSY 

..........the Oxford scholar poor,
Of pregnant parts and quick inventive brain,
Who, tired of knocking at preferment’s door,
One summer-morn forsook
His friends, and went to learn the gypsy-lore,
And roamed the world with that wild brotherhood...

~Matthew Arnold




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Ahimsa is a Sanskrit term which means, literally, "non-injury" or "non-killing." From my experience, I have come to know it as a term which implies something far more than a passive way of life. Rather, it is a dynamic expression of compassion - not merely the refraining from violence. It means going through life doing the least possible harm, but it also means doing the most amount of helping and benefiting to others. It has been defined by some as meaning "dynamic harmlessness" and "dynamic compassion." I find that to be an exciting concept!

The late H. Jay Dinshah, founder of the American Vegan Society, developed what he called the "Six Pillars" of Ahimsa. He did so by having one letter of the word stand for one concept of AHIMSA:



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My Blog

INVICTUS

INVICTUS Out of the night that covers meBlack as the pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may beFor my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstance,I have not winced nor cried aloud.U...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:41:00 GMT

DESIDERATA

  DESIDERATA Go quietly amid the noise and the hasteand remember what peace there may be in silence.As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.Speak your truth quie...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:04:00 GMT

DONT QUIT

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,The saddest are these: It might have been.~from "Maude Muller" by John Greenleaf Whittier It's never too late to be what you might have been.~George Eliot DON...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:19:00 GMT

IF

IF If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on youIf you can trust yourself when all men doubt youAnd make allowance for their doubting tooIf you can wait and not ...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:04:00 GMT

WHAT I LIVE FOR

One of the things I adore doing is collecting old books...particularly those with motivational material.  The source for this poem is a book titled: Golden Thoughts on Mother, Home and Heave...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:08:00 GMT

AHIMSA

AHIMSA Ahimsa is a Sanskrit term which means, literally, "non-injury" or "non-killing."  From my reading, I have come to know it as a term which implies something far more than a passive way of l...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:47:00 GMT

WISHING

The World's Needs So many gods, so many creeds,So many paths that wind and wind,While just the art of being kindIs all the sad world needs. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox   WISHING Do you wish the world ...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:34:00 GMT

Did I ever tell you youre my hero?

It was such a privilege to help my daughter bring Denzell into our lives yesterday.  Denzell (or "Old Man" as he was then called) is a 10+ year old white/apricot poodle who was hours away from be...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:18:00 GMT