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About Me

^ Jon Todd's artwork pretty much rocks my world ^
"You've got to give kids really beautiful children's books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because if they see these beautiful things when they're young, when they grow up they'll see the real world and say, 'Why is the world so ugly?! I remember when the world was beautiful.' And then they'll fight, and they'll have a revolution. They'll fight against all of our corruption in the world, they'll fight to try to make the world more beautiful. That's the job of a good children's book illustrator." ~ Tony Millionaire
"Experimental evidence has revealed components from our neomammalian, paleomammalian, and reptilian ancestry in the human brain. It is highly likely that vestiges from even earlier stages of evolution are present in the depths of our brains. Meditation takes us back past these evolutionary steps, all the way to the very beginning. The creator is present in the creations; the human brain is no exception." ~ Roy J. Matthew
"I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore." ~ Virginia Woolf

My Interests

health, holistic nursing, alternative medicine, sex education, therapeutic touch, breathwork, energy work, yoga, painting, sociology, gender, science, faith, the universe, compassion, tea, art, plants, animals, and symbiosis.

I'd like to meet:

Genuine, honest, kind people. Idealists. Gender benders. Animal lovers. People lovers.

Music:

Right now: Metric, Imogen Heap, Ani Difranco, Sleater-Kinney, Laura Veirs, Tegan and Sara, Tunng, Andrew Bird, Robots in Disguise, Bat for Lashes, Halou, Mirah, Ladytron, Mary Prankster, Dresden Dolls, Ray LaMontagne, Wood Brothers, Grateful Dead, Depeche Mode, The Cure, April March, Brazillian Girls, Portishead, Gossip, Jack off Jill, Scarling, Garbage, Postal Service, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sia, Tresspassers William, Taken by Trees, My Brightest Diamond, Great Lake Swimmers, Porcupine Tree, The New Pornographers, State Radio

Movies:

Fried Green Tomatoes, But I'm a Cheerleader, Pieces of April, Lady in the Water, Friends with Money, Harold and Maude, Jane Eyre

Television:

Buffy, L word, Lost, SVU

Books:

The Bell Jar, The Fifth Sacred Thing, Clan of the Cavebear, The Tattooed Girl, Jane Eyre, The Hand Maid's Tale, The Tao of Pooh, The Bean Trees, Ishmael, Cunt, The Celestine Prophecy, True Path: Western Science and the Quest for Yoga...

Heroes:

my parents

oh, and olivia benson

My Blog

treasures

I cared for an elderly man from Eastern Europe today, who kept a dirty, wrinkled envelope plastered in foreign stamps under his hospital pillow, pulling it out periodically to gaze at with his failing...
Posted by Katers on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:55:00 PST

making ripples in the pond

I love watching tv in bed painting my toenails power washing the deck snorting when I laugh too hard climbing trees peeling skin laundromats people's tattoos passionate drunken conversations ...
Posted by Katers on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:35:00 PST

fascinating fact 23245

Between 400 B.C. and 600 A.D., at a time when mathematicians elsewhere in the world were unable to work with numbers that surpassed the thousands, Indian mathematicians proposed that the cosmos was di...
Posted by Katers on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:18:00 PST

message from the sky

This week I learned that when your totem animal plummets from the sky with a thud at your feet, looks at you dazedly and takes off in confusion - it's probably a bad omen. Hmmm. Note to self:&nb...
Posted by Katers on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:17:00 PST

love in a petri dish

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Posted by Katers on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:17:00 PST

on my constant one woman race

I've mastered the art of inhalation yet I still can't seem to breathe. It might be that on the exhale I falter and miss the moment of transition from within to without and within again that carries us...
Posted by Katers on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:38:00 PST

a list of supreme importance

Every six months or so I try to make a habit of listing all the things that make me really happy at this precise moment in time. I've just done an intense hour of yoga and can barely keep my hea...
Posted by Katers on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:21:00 PST

perspective. meaning.

The HIV+ patient I was caring for died shortly after my shift last week. He was entirely alone in the world. I hope wherever he is now, he knows someone did cry for his passing.The elderly...
Posted by Katers on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:33:00 PST

city life

The city and I have different plans for our loved ones. When you speak to me now, I see her reflected in your eyes always, a glazed image of pavement and concrete steeling up your soul from the outsid...
Posted by Katers on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:27:00 PST

a multitude of fates

last night i dreamt i was living in a trailer with this big troll of a man with a big red beard who spoke to me by grunting out one or two words that never formed anything remotely like a sentence.&nb...
Posted by Katers on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:24:00 PST