Hi everyone. Guess I'll introduce myself ... I've just graduated high school and am getting ready to leave home, take a year before college and figure out ... I dunno .. who I am, I guess, or at least part of that! Get some new experiences, learn what it's like to live without the rigid structure of school. I've only very recently started identifying as a hippie. My mom brought me up believing that hippies were stupid people who were dirty and did drugs and smashed things. In fairness, she had bad experiences with hippie culture as a child. I don't do drugs, or drink -- I'm a good girl, as it happens -- but I like to go around barefoot in long skirts, and when no one's around the house I walk around naked (tee hee). Don't shave at all ... I like my hair, thank you very much. I love tea. Yum. I've been vegetarian for four years, I cook by scratch as much as possible, I like grinding my own spices. I think incense smells good and I have a thing for candles. I'm Buddhist, or I was for several years ... I still am, but in a less organized way. I haven't attended temple in some time. Also I'm a femme lesbian and I'm lonely! (This is not a plea for an internet date, I'm just stating a fact.) I love dogs but my parents haven't let me have one because it might wreck the furniture. Which is why I've determined never to buy furniture that I like. I write literary fiction, have been writing since before I could write. Love Emily Dickinson and Jeanette Winterson. I'm a pacifist, I like the movie Ghandi even though it makes me cry every time; I've participated in activism to help Darfur and Tibet. It's discouraging that I can't do more, but ... well. I can't even conceive of the horrors over there. But bit by bit we can make a difference, and we can at least try ... one of the fasts I did actually got the release of some TIbetan nuns who had been wrongly imprisoned. That was encouraging. I give money to homeless people although I know there's a good chance they will use it on drugs or whatever. I hug trees. (literally) More information than anyone wanted, I'm sure -- but there it is! See y'all round. peace, cardamom
wow, that's really interesting. i too would like to help people of unfortunate situations in other countries, so good luck to you.
