Freedom, truth, beauty, love, sex, and saving the planet.
and great art, literature,
and above all
POETRY!
I'd like to meet:
Nelson Mandela (wouldn't everyone?), Johnny Depp (wouldn't every woman?), Cate Blanchett, Harry Belafonte, Kirsty Sword, Xanana Gusmao, Aung San Suu Kyi, Werner Erhard, Dr Hasnat Khan.
If you want to be my friend:
If you're someone in my real life, welcome! Love to have your company here too. Otherwise ...
Already I am blessed with so many friends on MySpace, it's hard to give them all the attention they deserve. I now very seldom add more. If your profile is set to private, send me a message too. Otherwise you haven't a hope. Why should I add someone without being able to see in advance whether it could be meaningful?
If I can see who you are, please don't be offended if I still don't add. There's a limit to how many I can truly interact with!
Poets - check out my Haiku on Friday profile.
Pagans and mystics - check out my DragonStar Rose profile.
Both are still happily accepting friends.
View my page on Magnussa Phoenix Reiki Universal Energies
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Music:
The song you'll most often find on my profile page, though I do vary it sometimes, is my poem 'Traveller' set to music by Clive Price.
The things I always turn up to full volume whenever I hear them are Janis Joplin singing Me and Bobby McGee, Jeff Buckley or k.d.lang singing Halleluia, Frankie Laine singing Cry of the Wild Goose, Rawhide or High Noon, Leadbelly singing C. C. Rider, Paul Robeson singing Waterboy, and any version whatsoever of Summertime from Porgy and Bess. I sing along – very loudly if no-one else is around, otherwise sotto voce.
In general I like blues, jazz, grand opera and folk. Favourite instrument the human voice. Favourite singers Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Muddy Waters, Paul Robeson, Eartha Kitt, Cleo Laine, Aretha Franklin, Harry Belafonte, Maria Callas, Victoria de los Angeles, Ute Lemper, Annie Lennox, Paula Held ... not necessarily in that order. Love the protest singers: early Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg. Quite keen on Roger West and Clive Price too, obviously — for their song-writing talents as well as their musicianship. I'm finding new treats here on MySpace all the time.
Movies:
I like good acting, good scripts, good direction, great photography.... For escapism, I love the Harry Potter films...
Television:
Permanently mourning the coming to an end of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and of course Angel). Rejoicing at the new Dr Who, though it's always too long between series. I also like good British crime (NOT The Bill!). For comedy, always satire. Can't stand so-called reality TV.
Books:
Poetry, Magick and New Agey stuff mostly. Somewhere along the way I stopped enjoying novels, except for good fantasy or the truly great such as Cold Mountain. Great believer in reading for pleasure, not "self-improvement". (Great believer that pleasure IS what improves self and that self-denial is unhealthy!)
Heroes:
Aung San Suu Kyi; Nelson Mandela; Paul Robeson; Diana, Princess of Wales; Werner Erhard; Greenpeace.
Website
Life Magic
Other MySpace profiles
DragonStar Rose
Haiku on Friday
Blogspots
SnakyPoet
Texas Poetry Trip
The Passionate Crone
Haiku Page of the Passionate Crone
68x365: Verse Portraits
This rates my Passionate Crone blog (see link above) which is the same as what I post here, but poetry only. You will find me in the list as Rosemary Nissen-Wade.
My Spiritual beliefs
– according to Belief-O-Matic.
It makes me laugh to see how absolutely right I think they got it. (What a good thing I never married that lovely Catholic I was so crazy about when I was 19!)
My Results:
The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa.
Belief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths in order of how much they have in common with your professed beliefs. The higher a faith appears on this list, the more closely it aligns with your thinking.
1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. New Age (94%)
3. Liberal Quakers (88%)
4. Unitarian Universalism (85%)
5. Mahayana Buddhism (76%)
6. Reform Judaism (75%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (68%)
8. New Thought (60%)
9. Bahá'à Faith (60%)
10. Secular Humanism (59%)
11. Theravada Buddhism (59%)
12. Taoism (55%)
13. Jainism (55%)
14. Sikhism (55%)
15. Scientology (50%)
16. Orthodox Quaker (48%)
17. Hinduism (45%)
18. Orthodox Judaism (44%)
19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (37%)
20. Islam (37%)
21. Nontheist (34%)
22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (23%)
23. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (22%)
24. Seventh Day Adventist (20%)
25. Eastern Orthodox (14%)
26. Roman Catholic (14%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (11%)
