Mid-60’s Orthodox Christian, wife, mother, grandmother, partly disabled. Have wonderful service dog - Emmy! Married to the Ol’ Curmudgeon - and I’m pretty doggone happy about that!
Interests: Orthodox Christianity; reading; service dogs; computers, woodworking
Greatest Life Experiences:
Converting to Orthodoxy, Caving in Idaho. Attending Russian Orthodox Choir Conference (Oh! that music!).
Favorite Things Back in High School:
Reading; classical music - nerdy things.
Favorite Things Back in College:
Reading; classical music - nerdy things
Favorite Things to do Now:
Reading; classical music, computer stuff, surfing the internet - nerdy things - no real change!
Favorite TV Programs: Anything about forensics
Favorite Movies: The Chosen; Ostrov; 84 Charing Cross Rd; Air Force One; Becket; Indiana Jones; Star Wars;
Favorite Music: Russian Orthodox chant, Bach; Mozart's Magic Flute;
Favorite Quote: The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn out by illness: for thereby the passions are weakened, and a man comes to himself; indeed, bodily illness itself is sometimes caused by the passions.”~*~ St. Seraphim of Sarov, Spiritual Instructions
Favorite Authors: Robert Heinlein; Mercedes Lackey; Anne MacCaffrey, Fr. Steven Ritter, Sarah Elizabeth Cowrie, St. Nikolai Velimirovic - among many others
Abba Lot went to see Abba Joseph and said to him, 'Abba as far as I can I say my little office, I fast a little, I pray and meditate, I live in peace and as far as I can, I purify my thoughts. What else can I do?' then the old man stood up and stretched his hands towards heaven. His fingers became like ten lamps of fire and he said to him, 'If you will, you can become all flame.'
The Desert Fathers - Cribbed from
Glory to God for All Things
