icon: "progressing (a deeply, vividly green forest of thick vines and trees, with a tunnel running through where unused train tracks lay)"For the first 2 decades of my life, my guiding light was the Christian god, as understood through the Bible. I thought of the Bible as a way to understand God, and I thought of God as the reason for being alive ( Read more... )

icon: "eccentric (a photo of me tilting my head and with raised eyebrows and a pursed-lipped smile)"The other day I was waiting in line at a store when a stranger attempted to strike up a conversation with me ( Read more... )

icon: "hypnotiq (my fractal "Windwheel" -- an abstract swirl of yellow red and orange with a little green)"Solvitur ambulando: when you use a practical experiment to test if something is true ( Read more... )

icon: "hissing (a photo of a snow leopard hissing with mouth open, whiskers back and ears flattened)"I am a very passionate person who is loud about their opinions, so I've had a significant number of arguments with friends that were so heated we stopped talking. At that point they may have considered me their enemy, but I always expected that ( Read more... )

icon: "confused (photo of a purple diamond-shaped sign with a line leading to four arrows all curving and pointing in different directions)"
For most of my life, owning a home was so far outside my realm of possibility that I never even thought about whether or not I wanted to.

[some backstory]When I went to college I did so because I wanted to learn, and I had ( Read more... )

icon: "writing (a relief carving of Seshat, overlaid with my fractal "Colorflight")"
[favs for LJ Idol this week]https://az-starshine.livejournal.com/1039575.html ( Read more... )

icon: "voltaic (me, face at a sharp angle staring out of one eye with a slight smile and streaks of rainbow light on my face)"For most people in the U.S., being able to order food and other necessities online is an important part of modern life, where there is never enough time. But for people with visual, cognitive, and/or motor disabilities this ( Read more... )

icon: "curious (my face, looking straight forward with one eyebrow up and a sideways smile, head tilted down a little)"
Poll What do you plan to write for LJ Idol?

icon: "curious (my face, looking straight forward with one eyebrow up and a sideways smile, head tilted down a little)"Once when I was very young, my grandfather was reading me a book about Madeline, an orphan who sneakily adopts a stray dog. As he read, I would point to the dog in each scene and ask "what's that?" When he got to the most complex ( Read more... )

icon: "writing (a relief carving of Seshat, overlaid with my fractal "Colorflight")"
I'm gonna do LJ Idol again! Indie has been helping me motivate to write by trading prompts with me that we both write on, but this would be very helpful too!

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