when I saw this tribe, I was suprised that I hadn't started it.

I'm a traveler, though I do have a very strong home community where I grew up. I'm so fortunate to love my home. But at this point in my life I am able to wander and follow the path of divine synchronicity, so I am fully embracing that path and allowing myself to be at home wherever I am.

I LOVE meeting people, hearing their stories. It is so interesting to me to observe the way that the experiences of people's life form who they are.

For me crushes are when I am facinated by a person. When they amaze me, intrigue me, perplex me, inspire me.

tribe is so excellent for crushaholics, because the nature of the format is for people to express who they are for a potential person who has no idea who they are already. That's why I put so much time and energy into my profile here. I think that tribe is better than myspace for this because the format of the profile is more intimate and controllable. I find myself wondering thru mazes of my friends, and their friends, and their friends, just admiring all the beautiful and intriguing people. I challenge myself to speak up when my intuition tells me to, even though it's scary sometimes.

this practice has brought so many amazing people into my life. I do like to keep the majority of the friends I have here to people that I have met in real life, but every so often, some person appears in my experience here, who offers me some kind of stimulation. That's usually what I require to be friends with someone here that I've never met. There has to be a connection that is stimulating in some way.

but back to crushes, I wonder... in order to have a crush, do you have to be physically attracted to that person?

this is a question that I ponder often. it seems that society programs us to automatically shut ourselves off to people that we find unactractive or people who we do not find ourselves attracted to.

but there is also a big difference in the two things I just said. I find that I can have crushes on people who might be labled "unactractive" by society, but I can not (or rather, do not) have crushes on people that *I* am not attracted to.

and I think that this goes beyond physical appearance. For me, with my Venus in Libra, I'm very turned on by intellectual stimulation, a person could be drop dead georgous, but if they don't activate my mind (and my heart of course, moon in pisces) than there's absolutely no attraction there.

So, I guess what I'm asking is: What is crushing to you? Is it body or mind? or all of it? Do you decide to have crushes or does it just happen?


regardless of all of that, my crushes, of which there are many, keep me feeling ALIVE. that feeling I get when I stumble across a being who activates that glimmer in my heart completely warms me, even on the coldest of nights...

so I give thanks for this community who can understand that, and not just lable me as a player... even though I LOVE TO PLAY!!!

what do YOU think?




p.s. I found this tribe thru my most recent tribe crush! you know who you are! *heehee*