Siona

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About Me

Age:
26
Gender:
Woman
Status:
Single
Occupation:
Grief counselor / writer / barrista
Website:
siona.blogspot.com
Member since:
Dec 2004

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About Me

Me? I'm only just discovering this; it's humbling. My life right now could be summed up by suffering, impermanence, and non-self.

I moved to the Bay area from Massachusetts. I spent a few years in the magazine industry post-college, and am currently working as a grief counselor. I'm in the process of applying to grad school in psychology.

I'm in recovery. I've survived the worst efforts of some very bitter attempts at self-destruction. I've been through hell. I have a past, and I have stories.

I'm a nomad. I've lived all over the US, from upstate New York to Colorado to Massachusetts, and now California, and spent a few years in Vancouver, Canada as well. I like meeting new people, and I'm easy to get along with, despite being occasionally too pensive for my own good.

I'm a tall, skinny, bookish, tea-drinking morning person. I couldn't live without libraries. I like wandering outdoors. I meditate. I appreciate the beauty in strange and little things. I have a thing for motorcycles, though I've only had the pleasure of being a passenger. I write, constantly, although this is more for my own sanity than the enjoyment of others. I believe the personal is the political. I miss having animals about the house.

There's more - of course. But that's a start.



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Again, because I'm relatively new to the area, I'm definitely interested in meeting new friends. If you're a book-clubber, Buddhist, NPR-aficionado, writer, autodidact, urban explorer, lost soul, in recovery, or otherwise interested in living and questioning and being, we've got a better-than-average chance of getting along. Don't hesitate to drop me an email.

Comments

  1. Thu Sep 01, 2005 - 09:56AM
    enjoyed your bio, hope our paths cross someday... stay real!
  2. Thu Feb 03, 2005 - 09:08PM
    Hi I saw we had some similar interests, and thought I'd say hi... I don't have much of a bio up, but maybe if you go to a mixer we'll get along or maybe chat and be firendly though here.
  3. Tue Jan 11, 2005 - 01:24AM
    It was wonderful meeting you :) Here's an awesome poem that I hope you enjoy as much as I do. From 'A Responsibility to Awe' by Rebecca Elson. Antidotes to the fear of death Sometimes as an antidote To fear of death, I eat the stars. Those nights, lying on my back, I suck them from the quenching dark Till they are all, all inside me, Pepper hot and sharp. Sometimes, instead, I stir myself Into a universe still young, Still warm as blood: No outer space, just space, The light of all the not yet stars Drifting like a bright mist, And all of us, and everything Already there But unconstrained by form. And sometimes it’s enough To lie down here on earth Beside our long ancestral bones: To walk across the cobble fields Of our discarded skulls, Each a treasure, like a chrysalis, Thinking: whatever left these husks Flew off on bright wings.
  4. Tue Jan 11, 2005 - 12:51AM
    (: Great to finally meet you Siona! Hope to see you again soon and have a chance to "talk integral"! :)
  5. Mon Jan 10, 2005 - 08:40PM
    great.meeting.you!
  6. Sun Jan 02, 2005 - 06:27PM
    hey siona - good to hear from ya! hope you've weathered the rain well these past few weeks... another year over and done with... memories fall like tears... colors bleed... share a warm embrace for me
  7. Sun Dec 26, 2004 - 02:03PM
    Welcome!
  8. Fri Dec 24, 2004 - 10:23AM
    Welcome!
  9. Fri Dec 24, 2004 - 03:24AM
    (: Hey Siona! :)