beloved
26 years old
Female
About
"You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done...you are fierce with reality." I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.
[Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak, pg. 70]
I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome where everything is wild and beautiful and busy and steeped with God that the question is hard to answer.
[John Muir]
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible.
[Gandhi]
Text(1)
May 8, 2007
Listen
Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridge to bow from the railings
we are running out of the glass rooms
with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
and say thank you
we are standing by the water looking out
in …
Interests
taking drives, international travel, the great outdoors, simple living, cycling, live music, art, mountains, people, kayaking, red, africa, museums, discovering good music, running, all kinds of food, love, used book shopping, wholeness, coffee, healthy living, my girls, hard laughter, my hebrew roots, wide open spaces, writing, fishing, india, reading, biblical equality, cooking for friends, latin america, anything that is life-giving, photos, ice cream, kissing, missions, the teachings of jesus christ, state and national parks, rollerskating rinks, gorilla suits, fire
Music
Ray LaMontagne, Otis Redding, Band of Horses, Missy Higgins, The Appleseed Cast, The Flaming Lips, Adele, David Gray, Amy Winehouse, Brandi Carlile, James Taylor, Ingrid Michaelson, Clapton, Paolo Nutini, Pearl Jam, Fiona Apple, Bob Marley, Fleetwood Mac, The Police, India Arie, Joe Cocker, CCR, Copeland, The Allman Brothers Band, Chevelle, Josh Garrels, K.T. Tunstall, Silverchair, Johnny Cash, Cake, Dave Barnes, Ray Charles, Bonnie Raitt, John Mayer Trio, Chris Rice, Feist, Jennifer Knapp, The Juliana Theory, A Fine Frenzy, Rita Springer, Jimmy Eat World, Etta James, Blindside, Stevie Wonder, hymns
Authors
Lamott, Soelle, Garcia Marquez, Palmer, Berry, Yancey, Bonhoeffer, Buechner
Balm, Jan 19, 2008:
I like!
Ehdom, Nov 7, 2007:
Hello there! How's life?
Matt Ulrich, Oct 21, 2007:
amanda owens on virb...
matt, Jul 9, 2007:
Why hello. Good to know you're still alive.
Alive, May 31, 2007:
Thanx for the add!
DC, May 29, 2007:
adventures in babysitting is the best....i recently found it on dvd after years of admiration. what a great day that was.
matt, May 22, 2007:
We should probably hang out again soon. We have strangely become strangers....not good.
Julie Belle, May 9, 2007:
oh good....glad my randomness was helpful. : )
Matt Ulrich, May 8, 2007:
I'd say get rid of the the li and put br tags after each item. That goes to the next line.
Lance, May 8, 2007:
Hey! What's up?