Title: Eclectic elder

Gender: Female

Age: 63

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Chinese Sign: Wood Rooster

Location: Lilliwaup, WA

In the driest whitest stretch
Of pain's infinite desert
I lost my sanity
And found this rose.
    - Rumi
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Long-time avoider of profile completing!

There's no adequate way to summarize a rich and varied life (a.k.a. a checkered career), but I'll give it a shot:

– I write, I compose music, I design graphics and websites, I troubleshoot computers and networks, I garden, I push prims around in Second Life, I have an irrepressible sense of humor and pun with alacrity

– creative stuff is where my heart is, but I'm also an insatiable knowledge sponge, and have managed to soak up a smidgeon of wisdom in spite of myself. I also have a happy knack for strategies and big picture organizing, and seem to thrive most  where I have new stuff to learn or new projects to develop. Boredom strikes when life becomes too routine, and I'm very adept at upsetting the applecart when that occurs!

– I've had careers in regional planning, opinion research, construction, arts & crafts, marketing communications, music (performing singer-songwriter-studio junkie),  online community-building (I'm an eWorld refugee and was involved with Talk City from its inception until 2001), association management (I ran the Washington State Psychological Association for several years), and network admin/tech support. I currently use several of those skillsets working for a nonprofit retreat center

– I've been something of a hermit for several years, happily playing out the introverted aspect of my INXP profile (I flip-flop between T and F, depending on the situation & my mood). I can be quite gregarious part of the time, but thrive on solitude in abundance.

– Spiritually, I call myself a Buddhist, tho I don't cling to any label - I've tasted One Taste, rested in Suchness, splashed around in Pure Presence… and still regularly track mud all over the house!

– I'm a long-time Ken Wilber fan (I started reading him in the early 80s when *nobody* knew who he was), and have been delighted to watch the more recent unfolding of AQALity

– Over the past year I've gradually gotten immersed in Second Life, where you'll find me as Tara Yeats (there's a pic of my Second Life avie in my zaads photos) - realtime chat is definitely where I'm most at home - much harder to edit yourself out of existence, which I'm all too prone to doing in discussion boards/Pods.

– There's probably more, but that will do for now.  :-)

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