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"To Help Remediate the Destruction Humans Have Done"

Clayton, MO, USA
female, age 51
single
Speaks: french, english
Joined Feb 23, 2010
What I Want to Do: End animal experiments, "Be Here Now", Help heal our planet, End Violence Aginst the Voiceless, Change our government, promote peace, spiritual healing and wellness, wildlife survive, stop animal cruelty, Become self-sufficient with little means, Save the animals, S
Causes: Peace and Non-Violence, Be there for the awakening of man, Animal Welfare, against factory farms, Fair Trade and Equal Opportunity, Religious Tolerance, Rain Forests, poverty, pollution, Marine Wildlife, hunger, Human Rights, homelessness, global warming, Freedom of Ex
Activities: internet chatting, time with self, Time with my pets, Internet groups, internet research, Digital photography and digital art, Internet activist, writing, Wildlife Observation, walking, reading, music - but not playing, Movie watching, meditation


 
Some Images and Quotes So You Can Know Me Better
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Wolf and Raven Tattoo

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Self-Portraits 8/10




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Raven and Wolf Logo from Karen's First Website



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Cuercolobo Logo 2



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Go to www.therainforestsite.com to find this site and others like it, concerning animal welfare, hunger, childhood education, breast cancer awareness, and so on.
Highly recommended!



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"Beautiful Dreamer" (my cat Shanti)



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"Gato In Crystal" (my other cat, Gato)







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"Night Raven" by Karen Hansen c. 2010


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"Raven Shapeshifting" by Karen Hansen c. 2010

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"Raven Nebula" by Karen Hansen c.2010


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"Raven Landing" by Karen Hansen c. 2010



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"Ravens Creating A New World" by Karen Hansen c. 2010

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"Patti's Transition" by Karen Hansen c. 2007

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It is compassion that helps us perfect our wisdom and power...
The transformed mind is the ultimate healing.
- Lama Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche



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"Safe Territory" (I Pray For Wolf)





White Bird Taking Off Over Cove

"White Bird" by Karen Hansen c. 1984 

Don't you know yet? Fling the emptiness out of your arms into the spaces we breathe; perhaps the birds will feel the expanded air with more passionate flying.
                                        -Rainer Maria Rilke


Sally Lightfoot Crab on Lava
"Sally Lightfoot Crab" by Karen Hansen c. 2003



"And did you get what you wanted from this life even so?"
      I did.
"And what did you want?"
       To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the Earth.                            
                                                - Raymond Carver

Good Campfire

"Campfire" by Karen Hansen c. 1996

The law of wonder rules my life at last.
I burn each second of my life to love.
Each second of my life burns out in love.
In each leaping second, love lives afresh.
                                    -Jelalluddin Rumi

Bee Collecting Pollen
"Bee Collecting Pollen" by Karen Hansen c. 2009

Enough. These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.

This opening to the life
We have refused
Again and again
Until now.
                    -David White 

Color Abstract #3

"ColorForm 5" by Karen Hansen c. 2008



Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.                            

                                                  - Oscar Wilde



Asian Iris with Dew Droplets
"Purple Iris 1" by Karen Hansen c. 2010

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. 
                                                  - The Buddha

Marine Turtle Tracks
"Marine Turtle Tracks" by Karen Hansen c. 2003

How can divine Oneness be seen? ... If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere,
even in the most ordinary things.          
                                                  -Lao-Tzu
                                                       "Tao-Te Ching"

      Mirror Neuron Over River  


Cloud River and Mirror Neuron" by Karen Hansen c. 2009



              For All
Ah to be alive
     on a mid-September morn

     fording a stream

     barefoot, pants rolled up,

     holding boots, pack on,

     sunshine, ice in the shallows,

     northern rockies.

Rustle and shimmer of icy creek waters

     stones turn underfoot, small and hard as toes

     cold nose dripping

     singing inside

     creek music, heart music,

     smell of sun on gravel.

     I pledge allegiance

I pledge allegiance to the soil

     of Turtle Island,

     and to the beings who thereon dwell

     one ecosystem

     in diversity

     under the sun

With joyful interpenetration for all.

                                            - Gary Snyder
                                                  p. 92 "Art and Nature"                   

Some of my spiritual influences came from books and practices...                          

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But when in doubt... I also feel that...



"When the bird and the book disagree,


always believe the bird."
                                      - James Audobon



My Right Arm Tattoos:
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My Left Arm Tattoos:
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Groups ASPCA, Abolish Animal Abuse, Activists Against Factory Farming, Against animal abuse., Animal Magick, Art 2 Art, Backyard Birds, Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund - Electing Pro-Wildlife Leaders, Elephant Lovers, First Nations for Indigenous Rights, Global Activists For Animal Rights, Heart Of Mother Earth, Indigenous Peoples, Population Growth more »
Hometown St. Louis, MO 
Homepage http://www.nuevocuervo.imagekind.com/store  
Birthday Aug 20, 1961  
Languages french, english  
About Me A mystic artist and advocate for the Earth, Her ecosystem and animal, insect, avian, reptilian, amphibian, fish and sea creatures, ungulate, "pets," and indigenous human beings who have suffered at the hands of empire-building cultures.
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Pets 4 beloved cats who passed on, 2 dogs, 3 cats  
Activist Aspirations Casual
Political Leaning Very Liberal
Religions mystic, buddhist  
Eating Habits vegetarian and aspiring vegan  
Wild Fact About Me I once shared a bottle of Mad Dog (MD 20/20) I bought with a wino in an alley at night. I was 15 years old.
My Philosophy Integral- One World: Interdependent, and my responsibility is Care and Concern for all cultures and species alike.
What Gives Me Hope So many of us are evolving rapidly in this new century, of necessity.
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by Make our energy, environmental, endangered species, and indigenous,homeless, and mentally ill people top priorities.
What/who changed my life and why My healer in South Africa, because she helped me to receive my very first opening into the Light, an utterly blissful, joyous experience of Oneness with All That Is, with streaming tears of joy and wide open chakras...
What Bugs Me People whom do harm unto others, people who WON'T use their minds!, people who rape, people who don't "listen", mean peeps, George Bush, cruelty, Any one that would hurt an animal  
Passions Civil Rights of all beings, art, energy healing/Reiki, Being Present, being vegetarian, Non-human animal rights, non-violence, Mysticism., broadening my horizons, books, Shamanism, Vedanta, Buddhism, World Religions &amp, Cultures, Tibet and everything about it., Ocean  
Inspirations crystals stones, clarity and insight, compassion and empathy, mystics from around the world, OM MANI PADME HUM, My best friend, Howard Zinn, ravens and crows, clouds, whales and dolphins, peacemakers, Brave people and animals, Rescuing a PET IN NEED of LOVE, wolves ru  
What Scares Me War - Cruelty - Greed - Indifference, The moral direction of our society!, Religious Extremism, not being aligned with Great Spirit, moral direction of our society, Losing the ones I love, Is how cruel the people of the world are, ignorance, I choose Love instead  
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Role Models My Healer, The Mother, Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna, Maria Sabina, Howard Zinn RIP, Buddha, too many to state here. ask me, Princess Diana, Nelson Mandela, my friends, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, John Lennon, Jane Goodall, Dalai Lama, children are the most  
Quotation (One of them): "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
- John Muir
Interests oceans, TREES!!!, crystals/rocks and minerals, Crystal skulls, crystal journeying, Reading non-fiction, Energy Mind/Body/Spirit Healing, psychedelics, entheogenic/ psychotropic plants, shamanism/mysticism, wildlife, Travel/Adventure, Spirituality/Philosophy, recycling  
Books spirituality, Anything to do with animals and nature, Almost anything worth reading  
Music all kinds except rap, Talking Heads' 'Remain In Light, The Cure, Bob Dylan., Laurie Anderson., TODD RUNDGREN, Jimi Hendrix!, Modest Mouse, Joan Osborne, Cat Stevens - Yusuf Islam, Traffic, CREAM w/ ERIC CLAPTON, REM., Neil Young EVERYTHING, Renaissance (the group), Stee  
Movies the Matrix, Adaptation., American Beauty, Pink Floyd Live in Pompeii, Patti Smith- Dream Of Life, Whale Rider, CRASH - what a powerful movie, The Wizard of Oz, Donnie Darko, Towelhead, Babette's Feast, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Rabbit Proo  
TV Shows Monk!, Bones!!, Colbert Report!, Bill Moyers Journal, The Simpsons, life after people, life on earth, The Life Of Mammals, Blue Planet series, NOVA (PBS), Animal Planet, Discovery Channel  
Favorite Foods Pies!!!, Indian vegetarian, Mediterranean vegetarian, Thai vegetarian, asparagus, mushrooms  
Favorite Places Argentina (want to go!), Amsterdam (want to go!), Paris, Italy, Barcelona [Spain], Stonehenge- Ive been there, Galapagos Islands, woods, rivers, ocean, nature, mountains, forests, beach  
Can't Live Without learning and growing, water, sunshine, sleep, peace, nature, my pets, music, love, laughter, Computer/Internet, compassion, friends and family, freedom, food, coffee, cats, books, art, animals, air  
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Norse References to Wolves in Myth and Religion
(May 19) It's another sad commentary on the loss of our modern cultures' connections with Shamanic traditions that there are problems with the ... more »
Hypocricy In Red Wolf Species Conservation Doctrine
(May 19) From Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals, by Johnathan Balcombe, c. 2010 Palgrave Macmillan, p. 172:" When a species becomes end... more »
Crow Quote
(May 18) "If men had wings and bore Black feathers,few of them would be clever enough to becrows."        - R... more »
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