Who am i?

Pretty deep question there, isnt it? Which me do you want me to define?

The mother, the friend, the daughter, the worker?

Believer in social justice, full of hope and despair for humanity?

So many versions of me, how to define myself?

People are a bit like Palimpsests. Gore Vidal called the autobiography of his early years Palimpsest for that reason. One of my favourite quotes* is from Archimedes, so it is fitting he has the world’s oldest surviving Palimpsest.

I guess if you want to know who I am, you will have to take the sum total of my blog entries, read them, and realise you will never REALLY know me. You will know aspects of me, but that is all any of us have. Long acquaintance helps, of course, but then, its all about time, anyway:)

Long friendship helps even more, but is harder to obtain. That is about time and many other things.

Basically, people want the externals to start with, the obvious to see. I am a generally barefoot, mostly wheelchair bound, mac & linux type, proud geek, web developing code witch. Mother of 5, who is utterly besotted with the most amazing people I have been gifted an opportunity to know and raise.

People seem to think I am not hideously repulsive. Tall and reasonably slim. Tattooed in places I choose to reveal as I wish, but not in places I cannot reveal in public.

I ride in a magic green wheelchair, my conveyance the delightful Kermit.

My hair colour changes with my mood du jour. It is either long or short, again, according to whimsy.

Geek. Technohippy, code witch, loving losing myself in the arcane rituals of creativity code requires.

Quilter, creator of material goods as well – yes, the pun, while obvious, was also intentional. I like a good pun. A good pun, unfortunately, does not reciprocate, so I make do with their cousin, the lesser okay pun. Sometimes, I venture into the dark world of the appalling pun for which I have an odd weakness.

Deeply spiritual and utterly atheist. Book addict. Lover of science, history, and knowledge for its own sake. Learner of guitar, shameful writer of secret songs.

I am stubborn, fiery, passionate, compassionate, quick to cool down, reluctant to bear a grudge, intolerant of intolerance, darkly humorous, delighter in the absurd, whimsical lover of life, cynical optimist, untrusting romantic. My trust is hard to gain, impossible to regain fully. Worth it if you can gain it. Loyal to a fault, in fact, to a fault line.

Hard to lose, impossible to regain. Door will be bolted, key thrown. Capable of forgiveness, lost capacity to relive the past again. Forgive, cannot forget. Know where the keys I threw away are. Choose not to find them

I am an constant battle with my arch enemy and closest, (and certainly unendingly devoted to being with me), companion, EB, the Evil Back.

I like tea, and am fond of chocolate, but less than is thought of me. I barely drink, not just due to medication, but mainly due to a totally deserved reputation for little alcohol tolerance. Vegetarian, but that is mine, you eat as you wish.

The rest is subject to change without notice.

* The quote? Oh, yes, here it is:

Where the needs of the world intersect with your passions, there lies your calling.