StarMouse: I like bright colors and shiny things!
FUR and Furries: Love Fur and Furries! I'm StarMouse. No, NOT like Mickey Mouse. If the name doesn't tell you anything, GET HELP!
I love making art in all forms with all kinds of things! Not everything I make is intended to be permanent. I think popular art has the obligation to at least occasionally produce "Temporary Art." Currier & Ives prints are so valuable today because they were considered disposable. Same with Maxfield Parrish, and dozens of others. I used to do yarn bombing. I love using bright colors to make something pretty and fun in an unexpected place. Now that I am less ambulatory, I can't do that at all. I do mail art, I paint postcards, I do larger works, and I enjoy teaching younger children how to make art. I do ATCs. These days I'm teaching kids to make Inchies! I believe that kindness is better than unkindness. Warm is better than cold. Peace is better than war. Sweet is better than bitter. Sharing is better than hoarding. I believe it is time for someone to send me a DECO book. I do not believe I am obligated to imagine in my head what other people want. They have to tell me. My mind reading ability is permanently broken.
Music: My musical tastes are varied as my taste in books. I love torch songs. I know way too many decades of Broadway Musicals from beginning to end. I like classical and opera and operetta music. Jazz, Blues, Folk, Oldies, and all of the former Beatles and The BEATLES! I've a fondness for traditional Latin-American folk music. I voluntarily listen to music from the 800s to the 1970s and can tolerate some more recent music. I never liked heavy metal, not likely to start soon. I could live forever and never hear another rap noise, and be grateful. What you listen to is fine for you. You don't have to like my music, nor I yours.
Quotes: "Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'." - Bill Keane and quite possibly Ralph Waldo Emerson. Still checking.
"It's not just what you're given. It's what you DO with what you've got" - David Wilcox
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. - Elie Wiesel
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one." - John Lennon
Movies: Casablanca, Moonstruck, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Galaxy Quest, , It Happened One Night, Anything with Kate Hepburn & Spencer Tracy.
Television: For the most part, I try to avoid television like the plague. It will steal our lives if we let it. I'm old enough to remember time BEFORE television. I liked it! It's as if everyone in America looked at the box, said "Ooooohh, Shiny!" and sat down.