stefanie m.

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Hometown

smalltown, mn

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Birthday

June 13

Languages

English

About Me

very passionate...strong feelings for the welfare of animals and our world. My greatest weakness is public speaking (unfortunately) and finding a focus. Oh, and I HATE seeing roadkill.

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Lifestyle

Pets

long-horned cowfish named "moo", 2 dogs

Activist Aspirations

Rabid

Political Leaning

Depends

Religions

atheist

Eating Habits

wild game, will eat meat from small farms on occasi, Vegetarian for many years

Wild Fact About Me

Hmm..........

My Philosophy

Although it is very difficult in a material/capitalist world..I try to tread lightly, watch where I purchase things..who they are made by and if they were tested on animals etc...and thank mother earth each day for being part of the web of life.

What Gives Me Hope

honestly...waking up in the morning with the sun and birds singing..greeting the day. Then as it goes on it gets harder (media, money,jobs,b.s.) then the sunset is like the sunrise, beautiful and a reminder that being alive is truly wonderful..putting all the daily struggles aside.

If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by

stop animal cruelty of all forms and save our earth from the destruction that is going on. HUge political change..no more two party system. There would be huge profit and incentive to be environmentally friendly companies and to use renewable energy resource. People would be rewarded (tax breaks etc.) for recycling, planting native trees, cleaning up roadsides, conserving water, growing organic foods..and on and on. We would no longer build out in cities...we would build up, no more sprawl. Oh, and you pay dearly for animal abuse and polluting. Legalize drugs and save prisons for dangerous people.

What/who changed my life and why

"Ishmael" and "The Story of B" by Daniel Quinn, the Southwest...desert javelinas roadrunners snakes etc..,

What Bugs Me

poisons in my veggies, animal testing, roadkill, urban sprawl, all cities look the same, Environmental destruction, drugaddicts treated like criminals, shark finning

Passions

dreamingOfThisPerfectEarthW/oSelfishPeep

Inspirations

my daughter, my dogs, arizona, blue skies, the sun coming up, animals, music, Edward Abbey

What Scares Me

NAFTA Cafta Eu, The Bilderberg Group, overpopulation, shortage of land, pollinators dissappearing, water shortage, consumerism, War - Cruelty - Greed - Indifference, religious fanatics, global warming, people

Favorites

Role Models

Emma Goldman, EDWARD ABBEY, Laura Ingalls Wilder, diane fossey, jello biafra, ralph nadar, Thomas Paine, Ani Difranco, Julia Butterfly Hill, Edward Abbey, Crazy Horse, Cochise, Noam Chomsky, Bad Religion, Raina

Quotation

"Do you realize that direct encounter has been almost entirely eliminated from our lives, especially fromthe learning process? Do you realize how much this has cost us? We become the passive receptacles of secondhand descriptions and simulated displays and depictions- something like computers except not quite so efficient. And we wonder what's happening to empathy" (doug boyd) "We take these good, smart animals and put them in a house and then wonder why they keep on doing the stuff that made them happy for a million years. A dog can't think that much about what he's doiing, he just does what feels right". "Loyd" from Barbara Kingsolvers (Animal Dreams)

"Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere- particularly if they form loops. Loop drives are extremely popular with the petroleum industry- they bring the motorist right back to the same gas station from which he started." (Ed Abbey)

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightned of the old ones." (John CAge)
"As we destroy that which is natural, we eat ourselves alive

"There's never been a good government" Emma Goldman

"I love the land-it's great rivers, plains,mountains,and the uneffable desert; I love my friends, my kin, my unknown allies- I will stand by them to the end.
But for the cities, for our schools and churches and industries, for the government, for the meaningless documents embalmed of the past, for the mass of hucksters and enterprisers-no love. Fuck them. No loyalty. I will not defend them."
-Edward Abbey "Confessions of a Barbarian"

Interests

houseplants, Gardening/Farming, environment, reading, geology--I love rocks!, snorkeling, carpentry, conscientious aquarium keeping, rockhounding, birdwatching, exploring, desert, native american culture

Books

ALL ED ABBEY, Anthony Quinn's Ishmael The Story of B, Old West Themes, Barbara Kingsolver, Sherman Alexie, rocks and minerals, Native American Culture-History, Arizona Highways magazine, Carl Hiassen novels, Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, Their Eyes Were Watc

Music

lucky dube, big bad vodoo daddy, dropkick murphys, ella fitzgerald, ani difranco, punk, folk, ska, bob dylan, bad religion, NOFX, Reverend Horton Heat, Mighty BOsstones, Indigo Girls, Rancid, Less Thank Jake, Soul Coughing, Weezer, Rage Against the Machine, Morphine, Ben Har

Movies

Open Range, All The Pretty Horses, Tombstone, 3:10 to Yuma, the quick and the dead, way out west, little miss sunshine, napoleon dynamite, big fish, love and a .45, gorillas in the mist, Thelma and Louise, Smoke Signals

TV Shows

dont have Tv :(, Animal Planet, king of the hill, south park, all FSTV, Little HOuse on the PRaire

Favorite Foods

buffalo occasionally, anything from the garden, black bean burritos, wild mushrooms, wild caught salmon, cheese and wine, bread, coffee (is that a food?), chocolate, carrots, cilantro, Rasperries, real licorice, smoothies, rasta pasta

Favorite Places

ok even this cold homeMn if Bens w/me, fiji islands probably, tucson, Bisbee Arizona, tombstone az, gila river, eagle creek az, My home and my garden, puerto penasco, ocean, mountains, the southwest, the desert, arizona

Can't Live Without

the ocean, Hot springs, hope, music, animals, sunburn once in awhile, hot desert air, a quiet place without urban sprawl, food, sunshine, coffee, my girl, my love, my dogs, cool water, singing birds

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