How do you define yorself in a few paragraphs? And who the hell really cares? Oh well, I like to write.I don't do anything half way. If I love ya I love ya with everything I got. I'll fight for what I believe in. I'm kinda both a hippie and an anarchist. They cancel each other out which is good cuz I hate labels.I was born in Boulder,CO to an actress/director mama. In my childhood there was theater, theater, and more theater. We also moved a lot. We eventually settled in GA. [East Cobb County.]I was there longer then anywhere else so I guess it's my hometown.I was a little goth girl. I let a girl pound an anarchy sign in my back with indian ink and a sewing needle because I understood there were structures so corrupt the only way to have peace was to destroy them.I went to art school because I thought I wanted to be an actress. I did not really want to be an actress. I became angry and listened to Courtney Love all the time... Kept managing to find guys who used the sex pistols for spiritual guidance. Had to get away from that.I began to travel. First CT, then ME and NH. Then I ended up at this awesomly crazy fairyland hippy type place called the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in upstate NY. I began to really like hippy things. My life kind of morphed into a Bob Dylan song. I went out to CA the first time because I was chasing this dreadlocked missionary, break dancing guy. Went to San Francisco. Then South Lake Tahoe. Picked up another guy. Took a greyhound bus all the way back to CT. We ended up working in the middle of the desert on the Texas/Mexico border. Became engaged. Then life became one big blur of existential traveling. I zig zagged across the country. by plane, train,car and grey hound bus. CT,NY,PA,WY,AZ,CO, Managed to spend at least 2 months in each US timezone in a one year period. I saw and felt things so beautiful they knocked the breath out of me.I loved from the soles of my feet to the roots of my hair. I danced everywhere I went. I felt the rhythym, the music, the drums course through my body, my soul, my veins. I also became very tired and sick. Lost the guy somewhere. The engagement ring ended up at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. [All so dramatic, I know. You can take the girl out of the theater, but you can't take the theater out of the girl.] I volunteered in a hospice; which was strangly peaceful and healing. Ended up back in Cali last summer where I was a little too wild and a little too crazy. I lost someone I loved very much.
Then I finally decided to take my long term goal of saving the world off the back burner and ended up in Florida where insanely enough someone put me in charge of a whole class room of spanish speaking [mostly Mexican] preschoolers. I fell madly in love with "my" children and with being called teacher or "maestra". I am going to be a teacher.
I am currently doing a summer internship living in a community of anarchist political and social activists and working with children in inner city Hartford. The neighborhood I am living in is very violent. The children live in appalling conditions. Quite often they have no medical care or food
The idea of the community I am living in is to live in solidarity with the poor. People can come to the house. when they've been beaten up or hungry or just need someone to listen to them.If someone is homeless sometimes the community will take them in.
We also run a program for the children. The community members serve as surrogate parents. They make sure they are clothed and fed. They talk to their teachers and take them to medical appointments. Several of the community members are also political activists. They have been to Guatanamo,Iraq,Palestine and the Sudan. They truly are saints. They live off a stipend of $20 a week and donations. It's an amazing place.
I, however, am not a saint. I want to continue to work with children who live in poverty and work for social justice but I also want a peaceful place of my own. I also like to buy new clothes occasionally. [I feel so slimy writing that right now.] Oh well. Maybe one day I'll evolve. I'm headed back out west in a couple of months and I am going to STAY STILL for a while.MyGen
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