1. Lizzie Connor
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Retired |
| Location | Katoomba, NSW, Australia |
| Introduction | After raising a family and retiring from teaching, I gained a Master of Applied Science Degree in Social Ecology, found my retirement cottage in Katoomba, and set about achieving a sustainable single lifestyle that incorporated tending my evolving food-garden, helping to set up local school and community gardens and keeping up with the huge global range of sustainability activities and projects via the Internet. |
| Interests | simple living and sustainability, bush regeneration, social action, community education, working with young children, reading, finding information and community on the Internet |
| Favorite movies | Fast Food Nation, La Strada, Bagdad Cafe, Silent Running, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Cabaret, Pygmalion, Yentl, Pulp Fiction, Memento, The Bank, The Accused, Follow the Fleet (I could go on and on). |
| Favorite music | Selected classical compositions by Mozart, Bach, Tchaikowsky, Sculthorpe, Kats-Chernin etc; selected popular songs, eg by Cole Porter, Jimmy Webb, Johnny Mercer; and selected songs from the Golden Age of musical comedy, eg Showboat, Pajama Game, Oklahoma, Kiss Me Kate, West Side Story, Cabaret, Into the Woods (again I could go on and on). |
| Favorite books | The Botany of Desire, In Defence of Food, Burmese Days, EarthDance, Brave New World, Don Quixote, Moby Dick, The Grapes of Wrath, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Catch Twenty Two, For the Term of his Natural Life, virtually all novels by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and Ursula le Guin. Selected writings of William Shakespeare, John Donne, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, D H Lawrence, Annie Dillard, Robert Frost. And again I could go on and on. |
Your superpower is that you smell like dandelions whenever someone lies. How will you maintain your secret identity?
I'm not sure what dandelions smell like, but as long as it wasn't appalling I wouldn't try to hide it, even to stop my own lies from being revealed.