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Your essence is love~ all else is illusion.

About Me


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My husband & I are adopting a Girl from China. We are LID as of 9/21/06.
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I am on an endless search for a good Cannoli in Omaha... a good knish would be nice too! I secretly miss Stew Leonards... don't tell Joe or he will laugh at me=) Misc infobits on me... I am left handed, so therefore think and act unlike the masses~ I also am clumsy and have a hard time using scissors=) I love it when pomegranates are in season, I have lunch with my dad every week, I love Having Cabin parties with Bonfires and making ingots. I love Road trips and camping. Ocean Isle is my favorite Vacation destination, I think Mokee Dugway is the most amazing vantage point, I enjoy Planting seeds and helping them grow. I love to go fishing but hate to eat fish... Mostly I enjoy finding the extra in the ordinary. I also have the BEST friends=)
"People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within" ~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross~
Your Birthdate: August 20
You are a virtual roller coaster of emotions, and most people enjoy the ride.
Your mood tends to set the tone of the room, and when you're happy, this is a good thing.
When you get in a dark mood, watch out - it's very hard to get you out of it.
It's sometimes hard for you to cheer up, and your gloom can be contagious.
Your strength: Your warm heart
Your weakness: Trouble controlling your emotions
Your power color: Black
Your power symbol: Musical note
Your power month: February What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

You are The Empress

Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.

The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents, beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at&n bsp;home decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.

The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

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According to the SelectSmart.com Belief System Selector, my #1 belief match is Unitarian Universalism. What do you believe? Visit SelectSmart.com/RELIGION
You Are 80% Right Brained, 20% Left Brained
The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility.
Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way.
If you're right brained, you likely have a talent for creative writing and art.
Your right brain prefers day dreaming, philosophy, and sports. The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning.
Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others.
If you're left brained, you are likely good at math and logic.
Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet.
Are You Right or Left Brained?
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My Fortune Cookie told me:
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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Jon Stewart on Crossfire
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My Interests


Finding inspiration everywhere!!!!!

Right now I am obsessed with all things adoption and China related. You wanna know something about either of those things I can talk your ear off!
My passion is Photography again, after many years of dormancy and now I am becoming a photoshop addict too.
Being out in nature sustains me, and now that its summer I will spend many hours swimming and enjoying life. I am in to integrative medicine, acupuncture,chinese medicine & herbs, whole foods, Midwifery, attachment parenting, nutrition, chiropractic, vitamins, aromatherapy, Yoga, Pilates, sustainable living... you get the picture
I have 2 bunnies right now, Chloe and Red... They are my babies and they run the house:)
On a less serious note I am currently into:
Reading reading reading!- I just can seem to get enough!
Gardening, I finally own a house with a nice size yard and want to do veggies and lots of flowers.
Getting back into shape-mainly consisting of Physical therapy for my ankle at the moment,
Quilting-You will find fabric in about every corner of my house!
oh yeah and...

I like dancin like a monkey!

I'd like to meet:



Our daughter we hope to adopt from China:)
Also, anyone who is or has adopted from China.

Anyone who has a positive vibe and is looking to grow as a person...People who want to make a difference in this mad crazy world...to help wake america up! Any friends who I have lost contact with over the many years and cities.

The Celeb list: Jeff Tweedy, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Amy and David Sedaris, Alexander Shulgin, Steve Jobs, Andy Goldsworthy
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”- Marianne Williamson

Music:

SUPPORT LOCAL MUSIC!

In the car its NPR all the way~ its really the only way to get the news.
but otherwise I like a strange mix of music:
Wilco,Yo La Tengo,Thievery Corporation, Sufjan Stevens,Feist, Andrew Bird,The Orb, KIND, Nick Drake, Lily Allen, Dzihan and Kamien, Stereolab, Puffy Ami Yumi, Komeda, Can, Ben Harper, Poi Dog Pondering, Lemon Jelly, The Shins, Zero 7, Calexico, Iron & Wine, Bjork, Camper Van Beethoven, The Dead, Phish, Bob Marley,The White Stripes, XTC,The Dukes of Stratosphear, Portishead, Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Old 97's,Ryan Adams & the Cardinals,Built to Spill, The Mommyheads, Soul Coughing, Elliot Smith,Modest Mouse,The Velvet Underground,Pixies,Ravi Shankar,Trip shakespeare, Beck, Meat Puppets- etc etc etc- and many more! It would take me way to long to continue this list.
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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.

In love, you tend to have high (and often unrealistic) standards.
You are very sensitive. You tend to have intense feelings.

At work, you need to do something that expresses your personal values.
You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist.

How you see yourself: Unselfish, empathetic, and spiritual

When other people don't get you, they see you as: Unrealistic, naive, and weak What's Your Personality Type?

Television:



Iconoclasts on the Sundance film channel- its the best show... WATCH IT!
Planet earth series on Discovery channel, Flight of the Conchords, John from Cincinnati, Its Always sunny in Philadelphia, The Office, The Sarah Silverman Program, Real Time with Bill Maher, John Safran vs. God, Big Ideas for a Small Planet, The Riches, The Venture Brothers, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Morel Orel,Tom goes to the Mayor, Tim & Eric Awesome show Great Job!, Invader Zim......

Books:

Tao te Ching
I Ching
The lost daughters of China
Snow flower & the secret fan
The good women of China
Mei Me: Portraits from a Chinese Orphanage
From China with love,
Adopting after infertility
Wild Swans
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
Women of the Silk
The Language of Threads
The Red Tent
PIKAL,
TIKAL
Food of the gods
Be Here now
The botany of Desire
Enthogens and the Future of religion
Love is in the earth
Wheels of life
sacred Mirrors: the visionary art of Alex Grey
mamatoto
Hope for the Flowers
The River that flows uphill
The Tibetan book of the Dead
The psychedelic experience
Discovering Quan Yin
Spiritual Midwifery
The Left hand of darkness
Stranger in a strange land
The way of the peaceful warrior
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
All David Sedaris Books
All Sarah Vowel books
Anything by Greg Bear
All of Connie willis' work
the whole Hyperion series by Dan Simmons
Ilium & Olympus also by Dan Simmons
I am sure I can think of plenty more, but this is a start.

Heroes:


http://www.halfthesky.org
http://www.www.lovewithoutboundaries.com/
http://www.one.org
Accept what is in front of you, without wanting the situation to be other than it is. Study the natural order of things and work with it, rather than against it. For to try to change what is - only sets up resistance. Nature provides everything, without requiring payment or thanks and provides for all without discrimination. Therefore let us present the same face to everyone and treat all men as equals. However they may behave. In this clarity of a still and open mind truth will be reflected. ~Lao Tzu
There is no master race.
There is no greatest nation.
There is no one true religion.
There is no inherently perfect philosophy.
There is no always right political party,
morally supreme economic system,
or one and only way to heaven.
Erase these ideas from your memory.
Eliminate them from your experience.
Eradicate them from your culture.
For these are thoughts of division and separation,
and you have killed each other over these thoughts.
Only the truth I give you here will save you:
WE ARE ONE.
Carry this message far and wide, across oceans
and over continents, around the corner and around the world.
~Neale Donald Walsch
"In the heart of emptiness there is a mysterious impulse, mysterious because there is actually nothing in the heart of emptiness (for there is nothing in Emptiness, period). Yet there it is, this mysterious impulse, the impulse to create. To sing, to shine, to radiate; to send forth, reach out, and celebrate; to sing and shout and walk about; to effervesce and bubble over, this mysterious exuberance in the heart of Emptiness.Emptiness empties itself of emptiness, and thus becomes Full, pregnant with all worlds, a fruition of the infinite impulse to play, hidden in the heart of your own deepest Self. If you rest in the Witness, settle back as I-I, and look very carefully for the Looker- if you turn within right now and try to see the Seer-you won't see anything at all, for you cannot see the Seer. All you will find is a vast Freedom and Emptiness, in which the entire Kosmos is now arising. Out of the pure Emptiness that is your deepest suchness, all worlds arise. Your own impulse of looking has brought forth the universe, and here it resides, in the vastness of all space, which is to say, in the purity of your own primordial awareness.
This has been obvious all along; this you have known, all along. Just this, and nothing more, just this." ~ Ken Wilber

My Blog

unbelievable

So, the pain I was in this morning... well it just got worse, so I went to my Doctor and guess what--------I have a hairline fracture in my upper fibula! I Just can't believe it!I knew I hurt it when...
Posted by §onja on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:17:00 PST

Can’t Sleep...........

its just past 4am, unhappily awake & I am just pissed and sad at the amount of pain I am in and have been in since my vacation 2 1/2 weeks ago. I have been using a cane more than I like... and I hate ...
Posted by §onja on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:11:00 PST

So why is it...

That whenever I talk to people about our adoption they feel they have the right to say the things that they say to me.... ex:you know once you get your daughter you will get pregnant... it is as if t...
Posted by §onja on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:43:00 PST

bummin'

So my camera has officially bit the dust, I am sending it back to see if it can be fixed under its warrantee, but that means no pics this week and we are having a family reunion=( I am in no real fina...
Posted by §onja on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:17:00 PST

SEVEN WORDS OF WELL-BEING

SEVEN WORDS OF WELL-BEINGMOVEYour address, your bed, your body, your bookshelf. Take a walk, take a hike, take a step away from stagnating jobs, relationships and life patterns. Change perspective. Mo...
Posted by §onja on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:37:00 PST

hit 9 months

today is the 9 month mark of our dossier being logged in to china adoption system.I really hope things start speeding up soon. I am still holding out some hope that our wait will only be another year...
Posted by §onja on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:26:00 PST

homestudy again.

Well, believe it or not it has been a year since we finished our homestudy... and that means it needed to be redone.( they expire after a year) Yep, we had to redo our background checks, home visit e...
Posted by §onja on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:34:00 PST

video PEACE....

Love this video and message..."BOMBING FOR PEACE IS LIKE FUCKING FOR VIRGINITY" SEND PEACE ...
Posted by §onja on Sat, 26 May 2007 05:18:00 PST

PAIN!!!!!

So this is how it is for me, I have so much pain in my ankle and hip that it is making it impossible for me to stay still. this sucks... Its been 2 months since I got a cortisone shot in my ankle, so...
Posted by §onja on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:18:00 PST

3 years ago... long and slightly graphic

Well, I am just sitting here reflecting on what was going on in my life 3 years ago today. I was on my way home from work, stopped to pick up my last 2 christmas gifts then headed home. The traffic ...
Posted by §onja on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:01:00 PST