User:The wordtaster

I have synaesthesia, hence my username. I am severely disabled and can no longer work. I practice mindfulness and Zen. I used to work in film production. I am curious. I love words. When I am able, I paint, make found object art, bead woven sculpture and textile art, and garden on my balcony. I have an affinity for cetaceans - an artifact of having grown up on the west coast of Canada. I used to be very physically active and I miss it terribly. I am a lifelong reader and put myself through university working in a Used and Antiquarian Book Shop. The one good thing about my disability is that I can now indulge myself in being an informal full-time student, reading whenever and whatever I like. This also means that I have the time to contribute to the site I access most often. I am interested in science (mostly physics and astronomy, but not exclusively), mathematics, music, art, history, anthropology, and the cross-pollination of ideas and modalities, such as Emergence, Chaos, Metta, and Synchronicity. I am also interested in cargo cults, both historical and contemporary. I am tiny and the universe is infinite.