Just a crunchy, anti-capitalist, biophiliac heeding her inner indigo child and trying to live the simple life in a world that spins much too fast.
I am a social historian with a focus in Romani Studies, the Holocaust, World War II and the former Yugoslavia. I also have an interest in Romani music as a political statement and survival tool from Holocaust to Hip Hop.
I live in a 26′ Pearson sailboat, but am in the process of converting a 1993 Chevy van for a full-time home. I guess you could say I am moving from the waterways to the highways!
Oh, and this is my journal. I say what I want, usually how I want. And, you should probably be an adult if you want to wander around within! You probably won’t agree with everything…feel free to debate at your own risk.
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| Strengths: optimistic, outgoing and friendly, adapts well to change. loves life | |
| Weaknesses: procrastinates, overly optimistic, has horrible email skills, inability to sit still
Pet Peeves: non-Roma who use the word “gypsy,” people who don’t return the grocery cart, left lane drivers, and meanies |
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| Special Skills: makes a killer latte, excellent multi-tasker, chameleon-like ability to blend in anywhere | |
| Weapons: words…sweetness and sarcasm, a special pair of rose colored glasses picked up while travelling a distant land, magic tennis shoes | |
| Favorite Quote: In a real sense all life is inter-related. All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the inter-related structure of reality. ~Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition, which is opposed to everything infinite. Our ever-insufficient knowledge of the future opposes it: and this is called, in the one instance, hope, and in the other, uncertainty of the following day. The certainty of death opposes it: for it places a limit on every joy, but also on every grief. The inevitable material cares oppose it: for as they poison every lasting happiness, they equally assiduously distract us from our misfortunes and make our consciousness of them intermittent and hence supportable.
~Primo Levi
