miamaslegi

I like lots of things - reading (history, science, philosophy, fairy tales, myths, fables, fantasy, sci-fi, horror), cooking/baking (especially open-hearth/dutch oven cooking, but I practically live in my kitchen), drawing (mostly pen & colored pencil), crafts (knitting, crochet, hand sewing, quilting - more practical than decorative), writing (I'm a serious keeper of both "regular" and nature journals), hiking, camping, and generally running around outside as much as possible (I'd like to go canoeing, too, and start geocaching, but haven't had the chance), DIY projects (building, fixing, making, doing - I'll try anything at least once!), teaching myself interesting things (especially involving botany, ecology, geology, meteorology, astronomy, physics, math, and chemistry), and lots of other things.

Oh, and moose! I like moose an awful lot.

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. - Neil deGrasse Tyson