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Livin' La Vida Iyawo
white is the new black
Created on 2002-06-04 07:42:04 (#582333), last updated 2009-12-15
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Basic Info| Name: | Iyawo Omi L'ade |
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| Location: | Portland, Oregon, United States |
| Website: | Radio Bastet |
BioI am a newly initiated priest of Yemaya Okute in the Lucumi/Santeria tradition, well into my Iyawo year in white as of May 2009. My father in ocha is Obatala Baba Acho. My ocha name is Omi L'ade, which means "Yemaya has given me a crown." Maferefun the Iyaworaje!
I am also loving wife to![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
byroncaloz, podcaster of Radio Bastet - Vintage Belly Dance Music, struggling student doula with the CBI program, amateur rootworker and graduate of cat yronwode's Lucky Mojo Hoodoo Rootwork Course, bead stringer, ska/2-tone/beat generation devotee, future rose grower and maybe beekeeper, MSTie, political lefty, mermaid freak-a-zoid, cat wrangler, book hoarder, offbeat movie lover, neophyte knitter barely past the scarf stage, and lapsed bellydance student. In spite of all this, I am frequently bored. What can I say - I'm flawed.
Favorite Quotes: (a work in progress)
"Every different culture and people in Africa and the rest of the world have a sound or word to describe this manifestation of God in nature; my word is orisha." -- Maria Oggun Gbemi, Ritual Use of Plants in Lucumi Tradition
"My life isn't easy, but it's good." --evamoon
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all." -- Joan Jett
"'I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal." -- Emma Goldman (this has been boiled down to its essence in the famous quotation "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution")
"Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost." -- Thomas Merton, Seeds of Contemplation
"I have a B.S. in BS." --byroncaloz
I am also loving wife to
byroncaloz, podcaster of Radio Bastet - Vintage Belly Dance Music, struggling student doula with the CBI program, amateur rootworker and graduate of cat yronwode's Lucky Mojo Hoodoo Rootwork Course, bead stringer, ska/2-tone/beat generation devotee, future rose grower and maybe beekeeper, MSTie, political lefty, mermaid freak-a-zoid, cat wrangler, book hoarder, offbeat movie lover, neophyte knitter barely past the scarf stage, and lapsed bellydance student. In spite of all this, I am frequently bored. What can I say - I'm flawed.Favorite Quotes: (a work in progress)
"Every different culture and people in Africa and the rest of the world have a sound or word to describe this manifestation of God in nature; my word is orisha." -- Maria Oggun Gbemi, Ritual Use of Plants in Lucumi Tradition
"My life isn't easy, but it's good." --
evamoon"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all." -- Joan Jett
"'I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal." -- Emma Goldman (this has been boiled down to its essence in the famous quotation "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution")
"Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost." -- Thomas Merton, Seeds of Contemplation
"I have a B.S. in BS." --
byroncaloz
Yemaya Okute by Maria Giulia Alemanno
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african-american folk magic, afro-caribbean religion, altars, anarcho-mutualism, ancestor veneration, anointing and dressing oils, anti-nazi activism, arabic music, beads, beat generation, beatnik fashion, beatniks, belly dance, big gay sketch show, bitch magazine, black cats, bohemians, books, botanicas, bovedas, bowling, burlesque, bust magazine, candle magic, candle shops, cat yronwode, cats, christopher lee, cincinnati chili, cinematic titanic, condition oils, conjureoils.com, criswell, daria, david lynch, democracy now!, dia de los muertos, diamanda galas, digable planets, dorothy day, doulas, earth-based spirituality, espiritismo, ethnic jewelry, fire spinning, firesign theatre, folk magic, folk saints, freaks and geeks, frida kahlo, george abdo, gothic bellydance, granny squares, grey gardens, growing roses, gulabi gang, harold and maude, hemp, herb magic, holy cards, hoodoo, horror hosts, hothead paisan, iyawo, jack chick tracts, jack herer, jazz, jewel tones, keith olbermann, ken nordine, kim and aggie, knitting, la regla de ocha, laurie anderson, lefty politics, lolcats, lord buckley, loteria, lounge music, luckymojo.com, lucumi, lukumi, lydia lunch, lynda barry, making rosaries, marie laveau, marijuana law reform, maya deren, mermaids, mexican folk art, mohammed el-bakkar, mojo hands, monty python, mst3k, mutualism, nejla ates, new orleans magic, nick cave, norml, old horror movies, old school bellydance music, orisha, parliament/funkadelic, paul mercer, peacocks, phantom of the paradise, podcasting, portland, rachel brice, rachel maddow, reading until obscene hours, rootwork, rosaries, rose city rollers, roses, rupaul's drag race, saint expedite, saint michael, santeria, setting lights, silent movies, ska, ska culture, sock dreams, solitude, southern poverty law center, spiritual altar work, spiritualist churches, squirrel nut zippers, stephen colbert, tarot, tattoos, the osbournes, the string doll gang, theda bara, thelonious monk, thomas merton, thrift stores, tiki culture, tribal fusion bellydance, turner classic movies, two tone, used book stores, vintage bellydance music, vinyl records, virgo, walt jabsco, womberscootches, yemaya
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Oak Harbor Elementary School - Oak Harbor, WA (1965 - 1971)Oak Harbor High School - Oak Harbor, WA (1974 - 1977)
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