Amy S

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Location Sacramento Valley
Introduction Washington, My Home, Where-ever I May Roam.
Interests The Seven Liberal Arts, world music, world art, green and wild places, the rain, the Pacific Northwest, the Lewis River, storytelling, migrations, spirals, triskeles, Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia, Canada, Italy, North Africa, the Steppes, Pictish art, North African art, Pacific Rim body art, languages, calligraphy, illustration, photography, genealogy, spirituality, ecology, medieval history, ancient history, Renaissance, historical re-enactments, monastaries, contemplative life, edible landscapes, raspberries, dark chocolate
Favorite Movies Babette's Feast, Impromptu, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Beowulf & Grendel, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare In Love, Much Ado About Nothing, Gandhi, Lawrence of Arabia, Blade Runner, Stargate, Starman, Star Trek, 300, Secret of Roan Inish, A Knight's Tale, the 13th Warrior, Hidalgo, the Last of the Mohicans, the Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain, Ran, King of Hearts, One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest, Master and Commander the Far Side of the World, Gladiator
Favorite Music Classical, traditional Irish voice, Gregorian chant, bluegrass, string quartets, piano, guitar, lute, lap pipes, bodhran, cello
Favorite Books The Tain, The Wisdom of the Desert, Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Shakespeare's plays, Beowulf (Seamus Heaney translation), Canterbury Tales (still working on 'em), Musashi, Rebels, Gandhi's autobiography, The Screwtape Letters, The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters, The Rune Poem, Lords of the Isles, Taliesin, One Day In My Life, The Agony & the Ecstasy