Thank you for looking at my photographs!

I believe in being silly. and making the best of things. I love being in nature without disturbing it. Holding still in a forest, at the beach or in a kayak becoming aware of the infinite things that are going on.

Just rekindled a childhood love of horses and adopted an untrained pregnant Shire mare destined for inhumane slaughter for human consumption. She is my Imzadi (means beloved/first true love). I love the pureness of my relationship with Imzadi. We take each other as we are.

A friend and I have really gotten into attending Live HD broadcasts of some the New York Metropolitan Opera performances at a local theatre.

I really enjoy the PBS Masterpiece Series. My most favourite recently was a 2009 production of Charles Dickens' _Little Dorrit_ . I appreciate Andrew Davies' adaptations for the screen and LOVE his adaptation of George Eliot's _Middlemarch_. I am a Rufus Sewell fan. Not just anyone can do royal! I also love the Granada Sherlock Holmes series that has Jeremy Brett as Holmes. He is Sherlock Holmes to me.

I have deep respect of all living things and do not consider humans to be superior to other animals or separate from the ecology. I am dismayed by the hidden destruction and abuse that is implicit in the seemingly most innocuous purchases and activities of daily life in an industrialized culture.

I long to live a simple, sustainable (some may consider monastic) life with horses and show others how it does not have to mean moving back into caves, but it does mean mindfulness. Doing with less, making sustainable choices, knowing where things come from and how they are made does not lead to unhappiness.

I am positive that air conditioning is not a necessity, but was not surprised to find it considered as such during the power outages of the 2004 Hurricane Season. We found a way to have fun while the power was off and yes, it was hot at night. Somehow we survived!! There is nothing wrong with sweating, it is normal. I feel that this growing tendency toward perfect comfort and separation from physical reality is to our ultimate detriment and a spiritual loss.

To quote Gerrison Keiller... "My Dad insisted that, in the winter, you were using too much fuel if you could not see your breath in the house".