music, hanging out with friends, renissance period events, reading, cooking & baking, gardening, playing cards, shooting pool.

"....Now I will believe that there are unicorns, that in Arabia there is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix at this hour reigning there."
-William Shakespeare, The Tempest

Phoenix has always been considered the symbol for resurrection, of rising again, of rising from the ashes…
She was a kind of primordial god, which built its nest on the willow which is on the top of the primordial hill.

Life is a game of survival which I fully intent to win.