My life is infinitely complicated. I am a dweller of the edges, between land and sea and sky, between art and science, between thinking and feeling. I am a naturalist on a Bodhisattva path to discover the theory of everything so that I can help the world alleviate suffering and bring balance to the universe! (Or the force. Or maybe just my bicycle.)

I seek a partner in my quest, someone with as much creativity, passion, brilliance, and eccentricity as I have. I seek one who has lost all his fears, and walks though life with an appreciation that every moment offers something interesting to discover, from micro-climates, to human nature, to the geometry of the universe, to linguistics, to sustainable living, to goofy sci-fi tv shows. Or... at least I seek someone who wants to be that sort of person and is still working on it, just like me!

My relationship deal: I'm married, but currently "temporarily single" I suppose. A while back my husband got worried that I didn't need him anymore, had an existential crisis, wound up being uncharacteristically mesmerized by lots of blinking lights, loud ritualistic drumming, some E, and another woman who desperately needed someone, and he begrudgingly decided to make a commitment to healing her, rather than be with me. So... he ventured off on his "I'm going to find myself" mid-life-crisis-affair away-mission Borderline-test, or whatever you want to call it, while I do my best to wait as patiently as possible (which doesn't always work out so well, as you can imagine) for him to figure out who he is and get back to me. :-)

For the record, I'm NOT poly. And neither is my husband. Nor is his girlfriend. Nor is her husband. But everyone else around us seems to be or at least was in the past, which is sort of both a blessing and a curse, I guess. At least it gives us a perspective of it being OK to love more than one person at a time, even if we're not very good at it and don't really want to end up that way. Life is funny that way, isn't it?

Studying the universe, noticing the patterns of life, and reporting my findings back to the human race, with the goal of creating real superheros to save us from ourselves!

As my alter-ego Super Turtle, I have a superhero platform of seeking answers to the some what bland but really useful questions:

1. Who am I?
2. What can I do?
3. Who are you?
4. What can we do together?

Having come up with the answers to numbers one and two (I'm Super Turtle! And I can think really well and make amazing things with discarded and unwanted stuff!), I'm now focusing on that third question. I want to know who you are. I want to know what your super powers are. I want to know what kind of world you're going to create with your powers. And I want to know if you'd like to listen to me read children's books to you and then have a deep and meaningful and fun philosophical discussion about them!

Philosophy. Consciousness and armchair brain science. Exploring nature. Armchair metaphysics. (SEED magazine is my favorite reading material.) Making cool stuff from recycled materials. Trashpicking. Being a superhero. Playing with energy and seeing what I can do with it. And making people think in ways that they aren't always entirely comfortable with!

Also, I'm pretty good at categorizing things. I can even categorize YOU over on my OK Cupid test at: The Spiraling Upwards Test.

My tattoo "I am for you". (It represents various things, with a core meaning of my goal in life, which is to offer truth, beauty, and goodness to the world to create a healthier, happier, more sustainable place for life to exist in. It also reminds me to be present and attentive to the people who I happen to be with when I am with them.)

I went raw back in the summer of 2007 when my husband left me. Going raw/living food has been the best thing I've ever done for myself, I think. Alas, my current situation has made it difficult for me to stay raw, and I have a major weakness for pizza (with the cheese taken off), potato chips, vegan pad thai, and chocolate, when I fall off the raw wagon.

As for pop culture, I suppose saying that I've been a lifelong Doctor Who fan should be a short path to describing my tastes in media. But I take my fiction in small, intense doses, as reality is far more interesting to me, and I indulge in all sorts of exploratory media as often as possible. If philosophy/hard-science/psychology-sociology/nature books were food, I'd be morbidly obese!

Contraction and expansion and everything that's in between.

Or...

-1, 0, and 1.

Life, the universe, and everything. Especially the human relationship to it all.

In a homeless shelter looking for answers to it all.

I'm willing to admit to anything that is the truth. I'm a believer that secrets and dishonesty are the biggest causes of suffering in the world.

You are also brilliant, not afraid of being a real human being, interested in exploring the universe, willing to be a friend to someone who's life goes nearly perpendicular to the grain, and who is curious about this amazing and bizarre and occasionally scary woman who knows that she knows nothing, while also having some really beautiful, good, and true things to offer the world.