Donna OShaughnessy

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Gender Female
Occupation Writer, Homesteader, Yaya
Location Saunemin, Illinois 61769, United States
Introduction Writer, Homesteader, Yaya
Interests Novel writing, Soapmaking, Baths without interruptions, Poetry, Being Yaya growing enough food to keep us from starving
Favorite Movies Wizard of Oz (more and more I understand the witch), The Big Chill (who knows who played the corpse ?), Life Aquatic (I did too play vollyball with Bill Murray), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Terms of Endearment (Mother-in-Laws unite), Two Weeks with Sally Field and This is My Father, with Aiden Quinn. Ok, ANYTHING with Aiden Quinn.
Favorite Music All music played between 1968-1978 on WLS radio except Abba, Air Supply and Captain and Tenille. "Muskrat Love" is NOT music. George Winston but only in December. Glen Hansard, Hozier, Ed Sherrin, Damien Rice and Alexi Murdoch
Favorite Books The Blackwater Lightship, Trinity, Black Beauty, Horton Hears a Who, The Stand, Let Freedom Ring, The Foxfire Books, Maccabees Book 1 and 2, The Memory Keepers Daughter, The Gathering, The Good Soldier and Poetry by Yeats, Keats, Sexton, Synge, Langston Hughes & Sean O'Riodain

What is sustainable really? Is the corporate officer who goes to his office every day and brings home the money needed to shelter, feed and protect his family any less sustainable than a homesteader? Who is to judge? OK. Maybe I will.