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"Entering the second half of my life to age gracefully, wisely, and touching those I pass along the way with kindness and integrity."

Kalamazoo, MI, USA
female, age 52
committed relationship, 2 children
Speaks: English, Latvian
Joined Apr 11, 2006
What I Want to Do:
Causes: Animal Welfare, Children's Welfare, Correction / Rehabilitation Reform, Abolish the Death Penalty, Education, Endangered Species, Environment, global warming, Environmental Health, Pornography - Against, Europe, Health - Food Sa
Activities: Arts/Crafts, Backpacking, Book Club, Books - Collecting, Cafes, Camping, Concerts, Cooking, Dance, Drawing/Sketching, Driving, Gardening, Hiking, Hockey - Watching, Journal Keeping, Writing, Movie watching, Museums, Music - Concerts, Listening to Music


 
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Zinta Aistars is the published author of three books. She is an editor and writer for a health care organization in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and freelances for many southwest Michigan publications, including LuxEsto, the Kalamazoo College alumni magazine. Her work has also appeared in the Kalamazoo Guide, Greater Guide of Southwest Michigan, Kalamazoo Gazette, County Wide News, Encore, Welcome Home, and Parade of Homes magazines, and the Latvian newspaper Laiks.

Zinta has published poetry, travel essays, stories, and articles in the United States, Latvia, England, Sweden, Germany, and Australia. Her work also appears on many e-zines - including Cezanne's Carrot, Amsterdam Scriptum, Outsider Ink, T-Zone, Boston Literary Magazine, Ghoti Fish, Menda City Review, ThothWeb, Fiction Attic, Saucy Vox, Ash Canyon Review, Flash Me Magazine, Spoiled Ink, 63Channels, Her Circle Ezine, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, The Redbridge Review, River Walk Journal, Flashquake, milk magazine, The Surface, BookCrossing, Serene Light, Word Riot, Burning Word, The Moon, insolent rudder, Bobbing Around, coilMagazine, Poems Neiderngasse, The
Paper, Poetry Life & Times, QuietPoly Writer's Magazine, Midwest Book Review, WriteSight and others. Her poetry appears in the literary anthology, Persistence of Dreams, compiled by Redbridge Review.




Zinta is the recipient of the J. Jaunsudrabins Latvian Literary Award, the Erik Raisters Young Latvian Writer's Award, the Goppers Fund Latvian Literary Award. She has won two prizes in both the short story and poetry categories in the Kalamazoo Community Literary Awards 2000, and again First Prize in Poetry in the 2005 Kalamazoo Community Literary Awards. Zinta received a Merit Award in 2005 for her work in communications and media relations.




Zinta is also one of a team of editors at the literary e-zine, insolent rudder, she is poetry editor for Her Circle Ezine, and she is also co-publisher and poetry editor of The Smoking Poet. She is a member of the Kalamazoo Arts Council.


***** THE SMOKING POET *****
http://thesmokingpoet.tripod.com/fall2008



HER CIRCLE EZINE
http://hercircleezine.com



For more on Zinta and her work, please visit:

Zinta on MySpace:
http://myspace.com/zeenythe

Zinta - Prose & Poetry
http://zintaaistars.blogspot.com/

Zinta's Reviews
http://zintareviews.blogspot.com/

The Smoking Poet on AuthorsDen.com
http://authorsden.com/thesmokingpoet

Zinta on Link Tiles
http://linktiles.com/profile.php?i=1251

Zinta at Writers Net
http://www.writers.net/writers/21789

Zinta's reviews on Amazon - books, movies, music
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3ADK3ZTJ87915/102-2241015-8445724

Zinta at Kalamazoo Arts Council
http://www.kazooart.org/community/index.asp?page=profile&id=1514

Zinta on Write Sight
http://www.writesight.com/writers/zinta/

Zinta's Bookshelf at BookCrossing
http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/Zinta


Zinta on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=40901987&ref=name 
 
Personal Professional Contact Singles
Joined Apr 11, 2006 Activist Aspirations Casual 
Here for Meeting Friends, Job Search, Professional Connections, Support a Cause 
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Groups (Un)Known Lithuania, Artists and Writers - Working for Humanity, Being a Wombat, Book Corner, Classic Literature and Poetry, Defenders of Wildlife, Nature and Wildlife, Our Writers Corner, This group will be discontinued, Join Arts & Pleasures!, Writers, Poets, and Thinkers Circle, ooo
Hometown Kalamazoo, MI 
Homepage http://myspace.com/zeenythe  
Birthday Dec 06, 1957  
Languages English, Latvian  
About Me Honest, creative, artistic, passionate, intense, devoted, loyal, warm, and always seeking enlightenment.
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  Lifestyle
Pets Cats, Dogs  
Activist Aspirations Casual
Political Leaning Depends
Religions Christian - Other  
Eating Habits Keep it Healthy  
Wild Fact About Me
My Philosophy
What Gives Me Hope As long as there is still a tomorrow, there is still hope.
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by But I have no interest in holding political office... It seems to me, certainly these days, we can find more power in less obvious roles. It's all in the details. And change begins, always, with one voice.
What/who changed my life and why I am a little bit changed by each and every person I meet, whether in person, or through some medium of art, whether a positive or a negative force. We are changed in some way even by those who merely brush up against us in passing. Our power to transform should never be underestimated.
What Bugs Me Dishonesty to self and others  
Passions  
Inspirations  
What Scares Me  
  Favorites
Role Models Common, everyday people who connect fully to the, their partners and families, remain engaged in a sometimes discouragi  
Quotation "You can't always do things right, but you can always do the right thing."
Interests Air Purification, pets, Wildlife, Art/Design, Biodiversity, Books - Author, Books - Publisher/Seller, Community Development, Children, Ecology, Environment, Ethnic Studies, Holistic Health, International Development, Libraries, Marketi  
Books  
Music Sting, Jubilant Sykes, Annie Lennox, Anita Baker, Sade, Eric Clapton, Dave Brubeck, Chris Brubeck, Mozart, Tracy Chapman  
Movies Never Cry Wolf, Dead Poet's Society, Wit, Dogville, Local Hero, Big Fish, Secondhand Lions, Camille Claudel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Michael Collins, Braveheart, Scent of a Woman, Chocolat, Sleepers, Leo, Finding Forrester, Edward Scissorhands, Cid  
TV Shows  
Favorite Foods Wild mushrooms, sweet butter, fresh baked bread, Guinness to wash it down. When weakness , a bag of potato chips  
Favorite Places wilderness, Latvia, Alaska, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, all places north  
Can't Live Without my family and friends, a good book, art in all its magical and wonderful for, wandering the road to see what's around, wilderness and an open sky  
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Dec 9, 2007 5:40 PM

Cynthia D. (36)

Happy belated birthday!  Hope it was a great one!
Dec 9, 2007 5:39 PM

Cynthia D. (36)

Happy belated birthday!  Hope it was a great one!
Nov 30, 2007 12:36 AM

Rebecca W. (1172) 		HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
 ZINTA,
May all your wishes and dreams
come true!!
And as you celebrate
the day of your birth, may peace
and beauty fill the Earth!!!
Warm blessings and joy...
Becca  

Dec 31, 2006 5:01 PM

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