(.....Enjoy the musical pass time)
Keturah (ToriW) Wasler
What's in a Bio - What got me here? Where I am? Where I'm going?
The scars/graphs from being blown up, by a policeman, or tell you what it's like to learn how to walk again? To tell you why some hierarchies of people don't want certain religious/spiritual information to be public knowledge and how far they will go to keep it secret.
What death felt like at 5 years old and then to feel the cold of death again as an adult?
Of course i hadn't become too familiar or you wouldn't be reading my words
Should I show you angry? joyful? complacent? Elation? Peaceful maybe?
What part of YOU would you like me to reflect?
Should I write the textbook bio?
You want my stats my demographic...
What do you need to know of me - Really?
How I learned to love being teachable?
How I love in spite of?
About my homelessness - A poetically tragic incident I chose to express via rhythmic prose. Ending up living in the streets with my 16 year old son behind another person's inability to accept personal responsibility?
And Why I do not totally blame this person?
Truthfully it could have been worse.
To have money stolen by the stock market. It fell through a hole in the floor and then I think the cats ate it......the fat cats.
Do you need to know - What tactics I use to FIGHT my way up and beyond the situation (s)? Where my little family squatted in the middle of a cold winter? When to use chess to be strategic in life?
Do you want to know what it is like to cut off the world in order to perfect the skills of learning several new languages or to learn a new instrument or perfect/reacquaint myself with an instrument I had put down.
I have been: Amateur natural body builder, Stay home mother ,a liar, a dancer, a writer, a teenager, a violinist, artist.
I remain: Student (always a student),a Minister - a teacher, a writer, a dancer with a different stage, an artist, violinist and now banjo(still learning), a mother, an athlete. A silver and Bronze medalist for rowing.
As I mature i have come to let go of aspects of my character that were of no benefit- it seems many bodies don't have the mind to match.
What makes me -
Maternal Lineage:
MGF - Puerto Rico (taino)via fled/removed Spanish Moor royalty. (corrected by family elder)
MGM - Paiute/Peyote (pronounced pie yote), Cherokee, African.
Paternal Lineage:
PGM - Kickapoo, Moor, Shawnee
PGF - German and Black..
I come from a long line of Firsts, Fighters, Medicine People, Parents, Children, Politicians, Business oriented and VERY disciplined folks.
IN spite of it all I am a Victor not a Victim
I write in tribute of the experience.
Because my heart bridges my arms.
I have a couple of degrees and traveled the US to get them.
I have BSBA in Accounting
MsD in Metaphysics
PhD in Life from the Hardknock academy - certificate to be awarded at a later date
My greatest education comes from Hard knock. My BSBA keeps me working, My MsD keeps me learning and my PhD keeps me grounded.
Member of NWU 1981 - Freelance Writers Union.
Member of ASCAP
Life has tried me..what judgment is there to fear?
Are these words what I should hide? Should my words sketch a picture of the flawless American dream of the girl making it in the big bad world. Easy with scholarship and federally endorsed indigenous glamor.
A short drive through my
suburb and into my blue
sky.
It's not hard to smile...in spite of. It's hard not to!
Honesty is Truths Adolescence
You will find my truths in what I write
Some Absolutes - though you can debate the relevance
