So sweet of you to stop by my profile. I just want to let you know that I am currently in a new relationship and not looking for any other dates. I'm keeping the profile up because I like to be able to connect with some friends I've made here.

I am a dreamer. I dream of a world where people are healthy, happy and conscious, where the forests have reclaimed their rightful place on earth and are teeming with a wide variety of plants and creatures.

When I stand and feel deep into myself and the earth I know I am alive. To reach out from that place allows me to meet the trees, to hear the voices of distant souls seeking contact.
My life in the world is often full of people and joy and learning and sharing and I am intensely grateful. But when I get the chance to step back and be with the silence of the wind moving through the leaves or the beauty of the fall colors or the faint glow of the moon in the clouds, that is when I know what is real.

The past few years I have been really focused on my spiritual path and have enjoyed lots of contemplative time alone at home or in nature. A little like the yogi in the cave I am happy to sit by my fire in deep mediation for many hours of the day.

I have great friends, and it's time to get out in the world, meet new folks and have some more fun.

So here I am. Writing about myself, going out dancing, connecting with old friends, connecting with new friends, ... you.

I help people get their home, office and life in order.
I study herbs and healing. Always more to learn. I support people in their awakening with medicinal plants, energy and nutritional coaching.
I write a blog that is a varied collection of my thoughts on healing, plants, bees, kids, spirituality and more.
I was a teacher at an alternative school for 5-18 year olds where we let the kids play all day. Kind of a radical idea, I know. But oh so much fun to see what they do with their freedom. Big creativity and big messes.
I love to play, particularly that really present play that young children and animals do naturally. Two beings connecting without competition or agenda. These days I mostly play with my eight year old daughter, my kitten and the babies I take care of. I could use a few good playmates.
I dance and walk and run around barefoot in the woods.
I have this lovely (crazy) idea that I'm going to hike the Pacific Crest Trail in a couple of years, with or without my daughter. With or without shoes. So I'm practicing for that.
Besides all that I'm in an ongoing query as to what to do with my life. What is the next big thing? A healing and education center?

Discovering something that interests me and diving headlong into it. As a result I've had significant periods as a Sufi, raw foodist, plant whisperer, free school advocate, ... I could tell stories about this for hours.

Taking care of things, people, pets. I have a gecko, 2bee hives, a small vegetable and herb garden and an amazing 8 year old daughter. Anything I can do to be gentle on the earth, my self and other folks I will. I parent as much in partnership, harmony and love with my child as I can.

Fermenting foods: kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut, yogurt, honey wine, ... Making herbal tinctures, oils, smoking blends.
Knitting (though I'm so busy with the plants these days that I rarely do that or spin, sew or crochet)

Writing for hours about my thoughts and the guidance I receive from plants, stones and the divine.

Having vivid, lucid dreams and remembering them in great detail. Some of them have ongoing story lines in another world.

Listening to people, resolving conflicts, working things out, growing together. Pulling together groups for a common purpose.

Coming up with strange and unique solutions to problems that present themselves to me. Explaining complex and confusing mathematical concepts to artists.

Allowing waves of healing to move through me as Reiki or sound or sometimes something else that is needed in the moment.

I like to talk about plants, especially if we're on a walk.
Little kids and animals like me, usually.
I like to talk, have something to say about just about everything and am quite willing to change my perspective when presented with a good argument.
I was once told that I don't always have to be the most interesting person in the room. I guess some people are annoyed by that, others seem to enjoy it.

Favorites are a tough thing for me because I like a lot of things and my taste changes from day to day, but here are some I have or do enjoy

Books: I love to read!
About plants, spirituality and healing: Swami Kaleshwar, One River, Secret Teachings of Plants, Being Real - Bruce Scott, The story of B - Daniel Quinn
Sci-fi and young adult fiction: Tintenherz - Cornelia Funke, Stone Junction - Jim Dodge. Harry Potter, Red Mars, Psion, anything by Neil Gaimon
On education and parenting: the Continuum concept, Free at Last - Sudbury Valley School, Radical Unschooling
Food: Nourishing traditions - Sally Fallon, the Vegtarian Myth, Nom Nom Paleo blog,

Movies: la Fee,Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind, Mongolian Ping Pong,Mad Max,Avatar, the last Airbender, Harold and Maude, 180 degrees south
Recently I've even gotten into a few shows on netflix Life, Glee, The Riches,Parenthood

Music: Things that go Boom Boom and keep me up dancing into the wee hours. The rest of the time I'm also pleased by Bajans, the Jazz station, Bob Dylan, Ratatat, Regina Spector, Cyndi Lauper Bjork, Billie Holiday, Cheb i Sabbah, Eartha Kit, Sinead, Madonna

Foods: I stopped eating gluten, beans and most sugars a few years ago and feel great. I basically eat a lot of meat (no pork or beef), fruit and veggies. I ferment whatever I can and make most of my meals myself from as fresh, local, organic, small farm, sustainably grown, free ranging as I can get my hands on. You could call my diet Paleo but it's not that strict.

Dancing
Breath
Trees, flowers, plants
Hugs
Laughter
Good food

The awakening of divine understanding and healing in myself and those around me. The consciousness of plants, stones, bees and how to listen to it. The interconnectedness of all life. What it's going to be like as we regain more and more of our ability to hear each other. And how to get there.

What to do next with my life. I seem to keep adding goals. It's fun, you should try it sometime. Learn to surf, hike the PCT, have intentional, repeatable and confirmed telepathic experiences, how to get to Timbuktu and back to Nepal and Peru, ...

What's for dinner.

Making a batch of sauerkraut, enjoying the beauty of the world outside, meditating, working in my garden
and/or home having dinner with my daughter
sometimes I go out dancing

I talk to plants and they respond when I'm quiet enough.

... you already know me. I'm not really looking for anyone new.

You are curious to find out more about me and the eclectic places I've been and things I know about.
You love your life. You have an active spiritual practice that supports you in awakening as well as processing.
You like kids and are into the idea of potentially co-parenting mine.
You believe in the interconnectedness of life and are responsible for your impact on it.
You like to play, and have some fun ideas for adventures that we could enjoy together out in the world. You want to train for the PCT with me.
You want to go out dancing hip hop, trance, tribal, contact, ecstatic.