My name is Carol Steinel. I am fifty-three years old, a fact that I am weirdly proud of (don’t ask me why).
I started this blog in the Fall of 2005. My original intentions for it are listed HERE.
Currently, I work as a psychic and spiritual teacher, but I have had many, many lives in this particular incarnation. If you are interested in reading more about me and the work I do now, you can read my psychic bio HERE, and see things about my music/comedy career HERE. That will give you some basics, and the blog will probably provide much more information than you ever thought you’d want to know. My main website is www.cosmiclaugh.com.
I live in Port Townsend, Washington, in an intentional community, and amongst an extended spiritual community. I adore the place I live, and my mate, who lives with me in community. I’m pretty yakky (both in person and via the internet), and I feel glad you’re reading this.
Feel free to make comments on the blog, or email me personally at ruccha@hotmail.com.
Some personal facts:
FAVORITE MOVIES:
- Wings of Desire (and emphatically NOT City of Angels)
- Joe Vs. the Volcano
- Magnolia
- Into the Woods
- three particular scenes from Trains Planes and Automobiles
- Princess Bride
- High Fidelity
- Purgatory
- Nanook of the North
- Happy Accidents
- Nanny McPhee
FAVORITE MUSIC:
- Candide
- Joe Diffy (especially “Good Brown Gravy”
- Borodin’s Nocturne from String Quartet #2 in D
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
- Dar Williams
- Frederick Kahlua’s Sonatinas
- Aretha Franklin
- Almost all of the Bach Fugues
- David Wilcox
- David Bowie
FAVORITE BOOKS:
- A prayer for Owen Meany
- Dune (trilogy and beyond)
- Animal Speak
- Beyond Civilization
- The King Must Die
- A Distant Mirror
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- The Hollow Lands
- Where Does the Weirdness Go
- Naked
- The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
- Peter Pan
- The Man Who Sang the Sillies
- Macho Sluts
— “Oh Mein Gott! Does the book list ever end!?”
INTERESTS:
- Interface of Various Beings
- Radical Authenticity
- Seemingly Unreasonable Hopefulness Sans Pollyannishness
- Music of Varied Origins
- Website Design
- Internet as Evolution