About Me: I enjoy... Reading. Singing. Writing. Poetry. Reading. Yoga. Going for walks. Driving on the Blueridge Parkway. Ruminating over the origins, point and purpose of the universe and existence. Picnics. Camping. Reading. Veganism. Painting. Spending lots of time with friends and family. Hiking. Sitting outside. Backpacking. Big long involved discussions of things. Romance. Watching movies. Reading. Alchemy. Rock climbing. Cooking. Theatre/Drama. Museums. Some Video Games-(Zelda!). Reading. Pets. Big hugs. Love. Peace. Zen. Alternative Medicine. Creativity. Astrology. Reading. Personality tests and quizzes and psychological evaluations. Sledding. Philosophizing. Herbs. Physics. Quantum Theories. Social/Political Sciences. Making music with other people. Tattoos. Tribal drumming. Reading. Cultural studies. Sacred Geometry. Organic gardening. Dogs. Reading. Environmental studies. Playing Didjeridoo. Studying the connections between ancient cultures and their mysteries. Reading. Astronomy. Riding roller coasters. Photography. Road Trips. Self-sustaining/sufficient living and natural/green home building. Passion. Reading. Counter-culture. Reading. Concerts. Judaism. Tea ceremony. Folklore. Health. Activism. Nutrition. Learning. Animal Rights. History. Reading. Environmental conservation. Native culture's history. Traveling. Pottery/Ceramics. Day-dreaming. Irony. Crop Circles and other mysterious phenomenon. Watching/observing people. Decorating. Nature. Watercolors. Animals. Oh, and did I mention reading? ...I'm sure I'll think of more to add.

How I became a veggie: The boss I had at the first job I ever worked was vegetarian and had been so since his college days. I started to be curious about the whole lifestyle and decided to ask him what had made him go vegetarian years ago. He had one of the best responses... he merely smiled, and looked thoughtful to himself, and then said "I had an epiphany" and walked away. I understood this was his chosen response to weed out the people who were actually seriously inquiring about the ethics in his lifestyle choice verses people who may be asking just to waste time, or give him a hard time about it, and didn't really care about his answer. So I approached him about it again later and asked, since I really did want to know, "So you had this epiphany... what was that?"... I wanted to hear his reasonings and see if they resonated with my own. I decided to go ahead and go through with it and be vegetarian. I was vegetarian for one day and spent that entire day at the library on the internet, researching why people take it a step further and go vegan. After reading plenty of information and watching videos regarding factory farming etc... I understood that if I was going to make the change it would not feel, to me, to be fully honest and sound in all of its reasoning unless I went completely vegan. So I did, overnight, just like that... no looking back. I lose track of the time.... I think its been about 7 years now. During these past few years my social/ethical/compassionate consciousness for the animals sake, my drive to be veg in the first place, has also opened many doors to me in all areas of my life to a broader social and environmental consciousness over all. I've always felt life on this planet is a giant web, we're all connected, biodiversity must be supported... But in a sense, the thoughts and feelings that are a part of having become veg were just the start of living a life full of compassion over all on a much larger scale beyond labels and mere dietary habit. Due to much recent deliberation, (and the inventiveness of another person on this website) I've decided the new best term to describe myself is perhaps something more like "Vegalutionary"... A person who is generally and preferably and intentionally 99.9% of the time vegan when it comes to food, clothing and all other such products - But who recognizes that personally minimizing harmful impact on this planet in as many ways as possible in any given moment, reducing and trying to put end to suffering and exploitation of fellow living creatures the world over, is the ultimate concern.