I am a fifty-six year old woman who lives in Illinois.  My interests include herbalism, crafting jewelry, yoga, gardening, drinking tea, and writing highly obnoxious and politically incorrect books which no publisher on earth would ever dare touch, let alone publish.

My lifelong heroes are Emerson and Thoreau, and my favorite writers include Marcel Proust, John Cowper Powys, Jack Kerouac, and Oscar Wilde.  My other interests include Stoic and Epicurean philosophy, aesthetic living, French language and literature, wabi sabi, the delights of melancholy, cloud patterns, Shakespeare's romances, full moons, light and shadows, Aquarian energies, old discursive books, living in harmony with the Tao, and going into the richness and the wonder of the present moment. 

P.S.  No connection in any way, shape or form to Themista of MySpace. But I do have an underdeveloped profile on Facebook.

This website utilizes some of the CSS templates available at the Forgettable Mr. Ruthsarian.

Background patterns come from Squidfingers and Kaliber10000.

The Noir-et-Blanc font comes from Paul Lloyd Fonts.

Illustrations come from:

• Art Nouveau Motifs CD-ROM and Book, Dover Publishers (2002).
• Beardsley Illustrations CD-ROM and Book, Dover Publishers (2006).
• A Second Book of Fifty Drawings, by Aubrey Beardsley (1899).
• Various public domain book covers by Aubrey Beardsley.
• Assorted free dingbats. 
   

Questions?  Comments?  Contact me at:  themista ... [at] ... fastmail.fm

P.S.  I am interested in hearing from anyone who has "folk" experience of card, crystal, or tea leaf divination (in other words, you didn't learn it from a book--you either got it from grandma or you figured it out on your own).

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