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How do we sum ourselves up in words or images? Life cannot conform or be confined to a screen. We live our lives under endless skies, sometimes fail, sometimes thrive. We all know love and loneliness, happiness and heartache, pleasure and pain, control and chaos, certainty and confusion...

There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying.
The knack lies in learning how to
throw yourself at the ground and miss.
~ Douglas Adams ~

Pale Blue Dot

Here we are on this "Pale Blue Dot", too often harming ourselves, each other, and the planet. BUT we're also capable of using our hearts, heads, and hands for great good -- giving beyond reason, caring beyond hope, loving without limit, and reaching, stretching, and dreaming in spite of our fears.
We live in the moment and shouldn't dwell on the past, but neither should we deny it. What is written today is our choice. Peace isn't the absence of conflict; it's a way of coping with it. As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” All we are saying (again and again), is give peace a chance.

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Video: Music by Ice Core Scientist. Text - paraphrased excerpts from Carl Sagan's Reflections on a Mote of Dust , ideas expounded upon in his book entitled "Pale Blue Dot".

"To me, [this distant image of our tiny world] underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." ~ Carl Sagan

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I've led an interesting and rather unconventional life - the slipstream, the long way around, the hard road. With regard to work I've been a 'shape-shifter' of sorts, engaging in right-brain pursuits (art) for many years then exploring the left-brain (science/biology then technology); hobbies help to maintain a balance between the hemispheres.

Transformed from a rash and reckless youth to a responsible (somewhat irreverent) adult, by nature I'm the casual, earthy type. My favorite "out and about" mode is NOT shopping; memories, after all, are made of moments not material things. I love to be outSIDE and about. It's like John Muir said, "I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out until sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." And for me, the physical world is inextricably linked to the spiritual one. My quest, in broad terms, has been a personal path where 'east meets west'.
Experiences? Lots, like anyone, running the gamut of 'waking nightmares' to states of euphoria and, by far, the *best thing* that ever happened to me was becoming a mom. I raised my daughter, single-handedly and whole-heartedly, and had the amazing experience of delivering my beautiful grand-daughter (I used *both* hands for that. Slippery! lol)
Some corners of the canvas of my life for (the 1st) 50 years: 1957-2007
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...and I've been crawling on this cosmic canvas for some years now, absorbing the colors of current events, not apart from the scenery, but part of it. Even in solitude, I can't fully escape the ocean of society; sometimes my submarine surfaces, sometimes submerges - culture, counterculture.

Although I am independent, I know that this "me" is intimately connected to a civilization that sinks and soars. Pluck me up and plant me in another place, another time, and I might well be what I'm not or at least have a different, peculiar plot. We're all impacted by the environment, influenced (and sometimes inspired) by our fellow inhabitants, and imprinted with 'happenings'...and, yes, manipulated by media and marketing. Some things in life you gotta flow with, others ya gotta fight, like all the hoopla and hype!
Our time-line tales are told within the context of a culture; the skin of our story is infused with background hues. But more than the context of the canvas is the character, the spirit of the space on which the canvas hangs...

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Complex Simplicity
Grounded Idealist ♥ Free-spirited Realist
Hard-headed Thinker ♥ Soft-hearted Seeker

Dichoto-Me
Wild but tame, raw but refined;
partly on course, part misaligned;
one eye of a hawk, the other eye blind...
country heart, urban mind
An artistic intellectual, a tear within a laugh,
in the waking of my soul, the sword became a staff -
from the dust of distant stars rose my own humanity,
like a phoenix from the ashes, a one-winged mystery...
a complex simplicity
introverted, intuitive, thinking, perceiving,
bandwagons have wheels; use your wings
spiritual, NOT religious; single, NOT looking
"eLe-SeA" = LSC, 51 y/o mom, grandma
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* Political Compass *
Economic Left/Right: -5.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.62
(Same area on graph as Mandela, Ghandi)
...Registered Independent...
Find your political compass

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

What lies below the surface matters most...
for souls as well as ships.

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain ~