P.D. Gourlais

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Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Full-time writer and poet, publisher, music producer, creative entrepreneur
Location Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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Introduction My right to speak freely is extremely important to me. This is why I have written 5 blogs. I have been writing since age 6. I will be publishing my work in the future through my press, The Silver Palm Press.
Interests Utah Aikido (Aikikai), Chess, Orthomolecular Medicine, Piano, Guitar, Acting, Boxing, Yoga, Running, Swimming, Gym, Skateboarding, Snowboarding, Ice Skating, Walking, Meditation, Zazen, Sailing, Exploring, Driving, Road Trips, Traveling, Reading, Bathing, Kamasutra, Housework, Opera, Symphony, Theater, Cross-Dressing, Geriatric Medicine, Gerontology, Tutoring, English, French, Polish, Italian, Nature, Animals, Family, Day Dreaming, Research, Wandering, Musing, Writing, Letters, Publishing, Typography, Buddhism, Eastern thought, Judaism, Jewish culture, Holocaust studies
Favorite Movies Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia, Mrs. Dalloway, An Angel at my Table, Trembling before G-d, La Haine, Higher Learning, Waltz with Bashir, Billy Elliot, Iris, Top Gun, The Hours, Monsoon Wedding, Slumdog Millionaire, Il y a longtemps que je t'aime, Dead Poets Society, Once, Edward Scissorhands, Benny&Joon, La Vita è Bella, Ridicule, Chocolat, Casanova, Beijing Bicycle, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Amélie, The Pianist, Der Untergang, Amadeus, Dunia, Braveheart, The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, Gladiator, Big Fish, Stand By Me, Sleeping Beauty, The Lion King, Le Scaphandre et le papillon, Rocky, Frozen, Brokeback Mountain, La Môme, Interview with the Vampire, Shakespeare in Love, Ma Vie En Rose, Empire of the Sun, Aimée & Jaguar, The Doors, Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom, Nirgendwo in Afrika, Good Bye Lenin!, Memoirs of a Geisha, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Always, Truth or Dare, An American Tail, E.T., Hable con ella, Lucía y el sexo, La Mala educación, Tipping the Velvet, Orlando, Legends of the Fall, A River Runs Through It, Themla & Louise, Le Roi Danse, Quills, Zemsta, Trzy kolory: Czerwony, Biały, Niebieski, Dekalog, Podwójne życie Weroniki, Shadow Magic, Hoosiers, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, Master & Commander, Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Notes on a Scandal, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Veronica Guerin, Die Liebe der Charlotte Gray, Elegy, The Others, Far and Away, Pride & Prejudice, Becoming Jane, The Importance of Being Earnest, Atonement, Sommersby, Nell, Un long dimanche de fiançailles, Hors de prix, The Divinci Code, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Contact, Da hong deng long gao gao gua, Huozhe, Wo de fu qin mu qin, Yi ge dou bu neng shao, Finding Forrester, First Knight, A League of Their Own, Field of Dreams, Frida, Fried Green Tomatoes, Out of Africa, The Scarlet Letter, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Man on a Wire, Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále, La Misma Luna, Oliver, Annie, the Power of One
Favorite Music ROXETTE, 4Strings, Frou Frou, Imogen Heap, ANGGUN, Dalminjo, R.Carlos Nakai, Elton John, Smolik, Kasia Nosowska, Renata Przemyk, Hey, Basia, Novika, Reni Jusis, Liroy, Grammatik, Fisz, Sting, Leonard Cohen, Mandalay, Madonna, Moby, Melissa Etheridge, Il Divo, Lady Punk, Santana, Mahler, Chopin, Orff, Bach, Beethoven, Phillip Glass, Kronos Quartet, John Williams, James Horner, Kodo, the Doors, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Blue Mar Ten, U2, Sinead O'Connor, The Cranberries, Loreena McKennitt, W.A. Mozart, Rachmanninof, Massive Attack, Josh Groban, Sarah Brightman, Charlotte Church, Luciano Pavarotti, Bocelli, Bjork, Norah Jones, Alicia Keys, Under, Dolly Parton, Kenny Chesney, Alison Krausse, Etienne Daho, Patrick Bruel, Amel Bent, Sanaa, Ne-Yo, Bow Wow, 2pac, Jay-Z, Mariah Carey, Babyface, Jordan Sparks, Chris Brown, Nasir Jones, Lewis Parker, DJ Irene, DJ Colette, Indigo Girls, I listen to the radio a lot NPR, and I love electronic stuff for example Ambient Popsicle (Groovera), Beautiful Dub Collective, and I'm an International music lover so lots of French, Italian and Polish artists. Too many to name. I'm a stream freak.
Favorite Books The Bible, L'oeuvre complete d'Annie Ernaux, Bridge to Terabithia, Frankenstein, Where the Wild Things Are, Button Borscht Soup, Zohar, Talmud, Torah, This is my God, Diary of Anne Frank, Madeline Complete Works, Langston Hughes Complete Poems, Maya Angelou Complete Poems, Emily Dickinson Complete Poems and Letters, Rainer Maria Rilke Complete Poems, Jacqueline Osherow Complete Works, Katharine Coles Complete Works, Jacques Prévert Complete Poems, Women Who Run with the Wolves, Leaves of Grass, A Wrinkle in Time, New Kid on the Block, La Chanson de Roland, Les Lais, Le Roman de Tristan, Le ditié de Jehanne d'Arc, Heptaméron, Les essais de Montaigne, Le grand testament, Villon Complete Works, Jean Genet Complete Works, Moliere Complete Works, La Princesse de Clèves, Phèdre, Fables by Jean de La Fontaine, Complete Works of Giuseppe Ungaretti, Les lettres persanes, Les Liaisons dengereuses, Candide, Le Rouge et le Noir, Mallarmé Complete Works, Baudelaire Complete Works, Verlaine Complete Works, Rimbaud Complete Works, Apollinaire Complete Works, Césaire Complete Works, Valéry Complete Works, L'Etranger, Beckett selections, Les Main Sales, Huis clos, Lettres de Mistress Henley, Une Si Longue Lettre, Moi Tituba sorciére noire salem, Desirada, Alice in Wonderland, Works of Aldous Huxley, Works of his Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Works of Dogen Zenji, Chuang Zhu Complete Works, Works of Jiddhu Krishnamurti, Siddhartha, Works of Thicht Naht Than, Cave in the Snow by Tenzin Palmo, Pema Chodron When Things Fall Apart, Out of Africa, Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, Orlando, The Waves, The Gift by poet Hafiz Translation by Daniel Ladinsky, Pure Lust Mary Daly, Poetry and Prose of Wislawa Szymborska, Kama Sutra, so, so many, books. All I do is read for pleasure. No TV, so I won't list my shelves and shelves!

Which is more important to you and why: flexibility or expandability?

Flexibility is similar to adaptability and it's one of my greatest strengths. I have a good dose of expandability too as my creative powers run strong in my soul but survival always comes first.