JANE FINLEY (GYPSY JANE)
writer * artist * teacher * traveler
Jane Finley (Gypsy Jane) started traveling in her small, solar-equipped camper on February 12, 2000. She describes her life as a great adventure. She gives programs and teaches classes at YMCAs, senior centers, libraries, and churches along the way. Her NON-business card reads teacher (exercise, stretching, relaxation, meditation). Jane says she has everything she needs or wants; so her programs are free to the public. She adds, "If you have freedom and health, you have everything."
Jane was a teacher (preschool through college) and then owned her own business "Jane of All Trades (sense of humor, some genius)". The year it rained 90 days in three months, she sold her home and almost everything she owned and left Seattle, Washington. Jane had a wake-up call several years ago when a Unitarian Minister said, "We have less than 1,000 months to live." Think how fast we tear those months off our calendars!
She strongly believes in the philosophy of Zorba the Greek, who lived each day as if it were his last, and Auntie Mame who said, "Life is a banquet, and some poor fools are starving to death!" Jane lives a very simple life, realizing early on that acquiring more and more things doesn't make us happy. Jane names The Peace Pilgrim, who lived a life of service, as her spiritual guide and gives away the Peace Pilgrim booklet "Steps to Inner Peace." She describes herself as "young at heart -- other parts slightly older." Her favorite T-shirt says, "I'm retired; this is as dressed up as I get."
Her book is called WANDERINGS: Living the Ordinary Extraordinarily (Stories from the Road).
To schedule a program or meeting with Jane, please email her at www.janefinley@yahoo.com.
"This is the way to peace: Overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.".....Peace Pilgrim
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(Updated 10/20/11)...June 2011-June 2012: Danced in Prescott, then headed for Flagstaff, AZ where I stayed until I left July 10 to house sit near Brisbane, Australia for about six weeks until 8/25. I'll spend two days in Byron Bay and two days in Brisbane city at backpackers' hostels. While in Australia, I picked up a second house sit in Perth 8/29 until I fly back to the U.S. on 10/4. Almost three months in Australia, and I only had to pay for four nights (less than $100), but things are VERY expensive here: about double U.S. prices in Brisbane, triple in Byron Bay. Thank goodness I carried my own food. I'll be back in my desert paradise in Quartzsite, AZ for the winter. Then off to Costa Rica in March 2012. LIFE IS GOOD and ADVENTURE AWAITS!
I'M HOUSE SITTING A LOT AND AM OPEN TO POSSIBILITIES WORLDWIDE.
