About Me

Hello. 

My name is Daisy, and this is my blog.  This page should give you an idea or two about me. 

I was born in Hong Kong, spent my formative years and early adulthood in Northern California.  Decided San Francisco no longer offered what I needed, I moved to Boise, ID in search of a different life experience.  I met my husband Eric on a plane. He was a pilot for a commercial airline.  We sat next to each other in the exit-row and I endured endless pilot jokes.  "Wow, I've been talking 'bout myself for an hour. Let's talk 'bout airplanes!"  That's a good one.     

  

We have been living in Seattle for twelve years.  

I earn my living "strategizing" and managing projects for a wonderful company that based in Seattle.  My job title says I am a "project manager". But more importantly, I am a wife.  A daughter.  A sister.  An aunt.  A friend. A student.  I am a person. 

I love music.  I am a classically trained pianist for many years, although I still refuse call myself a musician. Listening to Horowitz played Chopin almost always makes me tear up - but so does "Chopsticks", although for different reasons:  I absolutely cannot stand Chopsticks.

Music is an incredible language and makes connection amongst individuals without the need for spoken words.  I remember playing the Franz Schubert's "Trout" Quintet with four exquisitely talented young fellows while I was in high school.  I never saw those talented musicians again, nor do I remember their names, but I remember the experience clearly. Music makes connection.  

I love painting with watercolor - animals or still life.  Painting is my hobby in the winter, when it is dreary, wet, and cold in the Pacific Northwest. Summertime, I spend most of my waking moments in my garden, "project managing" my prized raspberries and flowers.

I am not an adrenaline junkie, but I love trying new things outdoors.  On an intermittent basis depending on the weather, I rollerblade, shoot guns, hike, garden, golf, rock climb, practice archery, among other things. I do not swim well but in the spirit of "trying new things", I once did a cannonball dive off some small cliff into the water in Hawaii.  I did not enjoy the experience.  I can speak with certainty that it was the last time I cannonball into anything.   

I work hard to leave a "lighter footprint" on this planet.  I love good food, and I love to cook.  By "good food", I mean real and wholesome food. Michael Pollan and his books and other authors have made profound changes in my family's food choices in recent years.  We like to eat well, mostly organic, but eating well does not mean eating until we cannot stand up.  Understanding our food sources and the way our food is grown and raised has become a passionate topic with profound importance. Since 2008, my husband and I made a conscious decision to no longer support industrially-raised or CAFO-raised (Concentrated Automated Feeding Operations) meats and poultry of any kind: Beef, pork, turkey, chicken and any related products such as sausages, ham, or bacon.  Instead, we buy direct from the farmer(s) who raise our food sustainably and responsibly.  My decision does not stem from labeling myself a food elitist, or an environmentalist, or an activist.  I don't know what those terms mean.  It is a simple conviction that my belief deserves and demands personal integrity.  No more and no less.  I do so with the best efforts I know how.

I admire personal responsibility and scoff at the idea of entitlement.  I also learned at a young age that things that make us happiest are not found in a bank account.

As I mature and become "my own", I have a deeper and better appreciation that my life is about being playful, with intermittent moments of seriousness; not the other way around.  How others choose to live theirs is none of my business.  As for me, being light and playful is plenty to live by.   

"Wherever you are, that is your platform.  Please take responsibility for the energy you bring into this place."