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Saagaadaa'a Life
It just keeps rolling along.
Created on 2003-04-08 11:35:15 (#993142), last updated 2009-08-23
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Basic Info| Name: | Saagaadaa |
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| Location: | Mundelein, Illinois, United States |
BioI have been clean and sober for twenty-six years. I am post-polio and fibromyalgic. I have some disabilities. I use a wheelchair much of the time. I was born in 1949. Truman was President. Pius XII(Eugenio Pacelli) was Pope.
My family was involved in the American Civil Rights Movement. I was a hippie until I went nuts from woman's oppression sickness. I protested the war in Vietnam, was involved in the early Women's Movement, had my consciousness raised more than anyone could stand. I majored in Women's Studies in college. I speak Spanish. I play Scrabble. I collect traditional Latin American Folk Music and small percussion instruments. I love stories. I read everything.
I was in the early Gay Liberation Movement in the mid 60's, was a dyke activist into the 80s. I wrote for Gay Newspapers. I did crisis intervention volunteer work for fourteen years. I was a great typesetter! I went to the Michigan Women's Music Festival with my mom!
AIDS came. I learned a lot about caring for sick and dying friends by doing. I learned a lot from them and from those experiences. I was involved in support groups for Families and Friends of Persons with AIDS. I grieved a long time. I got to use that experience for several years caring for my mom in her final illness, and was grateful. I became disabled.
At fifty, I started a monthly Lesbian Brunch Group. I volunteered at my local public library, and at the local homeless shelter. I would really rather be dancing, but we all have limitations.
Belief-o-Matic says I am, by belief, 100% Quaker, though I attend a lot of different churches in the course of a year. I belong to small faith communities. I like to read, think and pray.
Having been a proofreader, typographer, editor and publisher, I have a favorite poem:
I have a spelling checker
It came with my pea see
It planely Marx four my revue
misteaks I cannot sea.
I ran this pome thru it
I'm shirr your please to know
It's letter perfect en it's way
My checker tolled me sew.
My family was involved in the American Civil Rights Movement. I was a hippie until I went nuts from woman's oppression sickness. I protested the war in Vietnam, was involved in the early Women's Movement, had my consciousness raised more than anyone could stand. I majored in Women's Studies in college. I speak Spanish. I play Scrabble. I collect traditional Latin American Folk Music and small percussion instruments. I love stories. I read everything.
I was in the early Gay Liberation Movement in the mid 60's, was a dyke activist into the 80s. I wrote for Gay Newspapers. I did crisis intervention volunteer work for fourteen years. I was a great typesetter! I went to the Michigan Women's Music Festival with my mom!
AIDS came. I learned a lot about caring for sick and dying friends by doing. I learned a lot from them and from those experiences. I was involved in support groups for Families and Friends of Persons with AIDS. I grieved a long time. I got to use that experience for several years caring for my mom in her final illness, and was grateful. I became disabled.
At fifty, I started a monthly Lesbian Brunch Group. I volunteered at my local public library, and at the local homeless shelter. I would really rather be dancing, but we all have limitations.
Belief-o-Matic says I am, by belief, 100% Quaker, though I attend a lot of different churches in the course of a year. I belong to small faith communities. I like to read, think and pray.
Having been a proofreader, typographer, editor and publisher, I have a favorite poem:
I have a spelling checker
It came with my pea see
It planely Marx four my revue
misteaks I cannot sea.
I ran this pome thru it
I'm shirr your please to know
It's letter perfect en it's way
My checker tolled me sew.
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