DawnLorien

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Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Independent
Location Prescott, AZ, United States
Introduction one of these days when I'm not dealing with living in two states, taking care of my aged mother in one and tarring my roof/ prepping house to sell in the other, or learning to navigate in Facebook and Classmates to reconnect with old friends and family, or struggling with the upload of photos into albums, or the need to find a job again after two years of "personal family leave", or finding a place to live after the house sells SOON! [Everyone Visualize the SOLD Sign, please...] then, one of those days I will give you my story...
Interests Creative Problem Solving, Unique Solutions, Reading for pleasure or purpose, playing w/ fabrics, horses & riding, taming shy cats, being near water, listening to the Quiet, walking dog at night, dark sky, stars, Full Moon, creative cooking, party planning, steaming-hot hot-tubbing, swimming laps at night, massage, yoga, photo staging and photo editing, interior design using Intuitive Feng Shui, home staging, proofreading, editing, rewriting, developing writing skills, special education, Waldorf Education, Anthroposophy, Bio-Dynamic Agriculture, Eurythmy, sustainability, green living, social responsibility, ethnic food, thai food, travel, home life, simple living, beauty, the arts, need dance partner, dancing, West Coast Swing, dance lessons partner
Favorite Movies foreign films, Sundance films, Indie films, A Fish Called Wanda, Dr. Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, Incredible Shrinking Man, Empire of the Sun, LOTR, Unleashed, Eliza's Horoscope, Cat Ballou, Last Samurai, Under the Tuscan Sun, The Fixer, Dogs & Cats, Lost in Translation, Crash, Babel, Battle of Algiers, Ice Age, The Killing Fields, The Year of Living Dangerously, Soldier of Orange, The Grey Room, Fantasia, All About My Mother, Chocolate, Like Water for Chocolate, Babette's Feast, March of the Penguins, Eat Drink Man Woman, The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, Iron Man, Calendar Girls, Iris, Stand By Me, Mosquito Coast, My Own Private Idaho, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Favorite Music Best of Genre, foreign language, Brazilian Jazz, Indigenous Folk, South American Revolutionary Folk, Southern Rock, Blues, Roots, Mountain, R&B, World Beat, Afro Pop, any Paul Simon since Graceland, Rhythm of the Saints, Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba, Odetta, Ladysmith Black Mombasa, Sibelius, Mahler, Dvorak, Copeland, Berlioz, YoYo Ma, Joshua Bell, Josh Grobin, Allison Kraus, Natalie McMaster, Andrea Bocelli, Mark Knofler, Dire Straits, Gary Moore Ballads and Blues, James Taylor, Stan Rogers, John Hartford, Elvis, Beatles, Traffic, Spencer Davis Group, Etta James, Marcia Ball, Asleep At the Wheel, Paul Horn, Paul Winter, Bulgarian Womens' Chorus
Favorite Books International Journalism, SciFi, Near-Future Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Alternative History, Magical Realism, Bio-thrillers, Scientific American, Atlantic Monthly, Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, Jose Saramago

Which is more important to you and why: flexibility or expandability?

One must first be flexible in order to be able to expand beyond existing constraints or perceived limitations...