Adele’s Aerie

Yes, I’m finally relocating from shakal.org to adeleshakal.com. Pull up a comfortable chair, have a cup of tea and be welcome.

Tea makes everything better. In fact, here’s a link to my favorite tea shop: Infusions of Tea

I’m still moving some of my older content from both my shakal.org site and my LiveJournal, but since almost all of the content from shakal.org is now in place, I’m directing visitors here rather than the older site. I’m up to October 2002 in moving content from my LiveJournal, please pardon the construction dust…

If you’ve linked to or bookmarked any of my pages on shakal.org, please update your links and bookmarks, and accept my apologies for the inconvenience. After more than a decade, this website move was really necessary… but if it’s any consolation to those updating links, it’ll probably be at least a decade before I move again.

Thank you for reading here!

While I was doing all of this website spring cleaning, I’ve also heeded the grumbling some of you have sent my way that I didn’t have any photos of myself publicly viewable on Flickr. Fine, fine… I still have a bunch of more recent and some older photos I need to upload there, but here are at least a few so y’all can stop grumbling at me.
flickr.com/photos/naturedance/tags/adele

Current music: Oysterband - Milford Haven

(I used to have this on an About Adele page on my old website, and in this new site, a shortened About page is more appropriate and modern. I’ve decided a blog post is a more appropriate place for this, anyway. Sometimes, it helps to write out my beliefs, my priorities, my activism, my soapbox… and other times, I just need to get out in the fresh air and hike alone with the rocks and trees and open wind. And other times, I just need to go for coffee with a friend. Today is one of the soapbox days, I guess. The original version of this content was in part inspired by NPR’s This I Believe.)

I live passionately, and I focus intently on activities at home and at work. I am a perfectionist endlessly fascinated by life, the universe and everything. This also means that I am endlessly striving for one of those “work-life balance” things I’ve heard so much about.

I believe in imagination. I believe in hope. I believe that the journey to explore ourselves and our world is infinitely engaging.
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