Lutestring
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Introduction | "Is it not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?" -Benedick in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing |
| Favorite Movies | Much Ado About Nothing, The Elephant Man, Signs, Fahrenheit 451 (Francois Truffaut), A Little Princess (Alfonso Curaon), Wit, Stranger Than Fiction, Ever After, Howl's Moving Castle, The Fisher King, The Winslow Boy (David Mamet), Shadowlands (Richard Attenborough), Awakenings, The Last Samurai, Rigoletto, Luther (new one), Jesus of Montreal, Pan's Labyrinth, Whistle Down The Wind, Field of Dreams, Wings of Desire, Solaris (Tarkovsky), The Dark Crystal, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, The Spitfire Grill, The Secret of Roan Inish, ... still adding to the list ... |
| Favorite Music | Hmmm ... English Renaissance, Folk, Celtic, and many different kinds of rock and pop comprise most of my most loved music. A few beloved artists -, Mary Fahl, October Project, John Dowland, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Thomas Campion, Orlando Gibbons, Fretwork, Pantagruel, Emma Kirkby, Sting, The Police, Tears For Fears, U2, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Great Big Sea, Loreena Mckennit, Arianna Savall, Michal Hromek, Ron Mcfarlane, The Baltimore Consort, Custer LaRue, Jars of Clay, Jon Foreman, Switchfoot, Anberlin, Falling Up, Relient K, NeedtoBreathe, Deas Vail, Mute Math, Mae, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Benjamin Britten, John Duarte, Patrick Doyle, Sydney Carter, Sandy Denny, Shelagh McDonald, Nick Drake, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, Bruce Springsteen, ... well, I must stop somewhere, I guess, for the moment ... |
| Favorite Books | For just a START ..., Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis, Making Sense Out of Suffering by Peter Kreeft, The Man Born To Be King by Dorothy Sayers, The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross, I Am David by Anne Holm, The Second Coming by Walker Percy, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars, The Secret at Pheasant Cottage by Patricia St. John, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland Bainton, The Mozart Season by Virginia Euwer Woolf, Coraline by Neil Gaiman, poetry of George Herbert, John Donne, Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, Tennyson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, Anna Akhmatova, Denise Levertov, Alfred Noyes, Vachel Lindsay, Just about ANYTHING by George MacDonald, (but I especially love) The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind, The Light Princess, The History of Photogen and Nycteris, The Golden Key, Phantases, let's just say all of his fantasy, (his other stuff isn't bad either), Skellig by David Almond, Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff, The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson, let's just say anything by Katherine Paterson, Between the Forest and the Hills by Ann Lawrence, The Inkheart Trilogy by Cornelia Funke, The Idiot by Dostoevsky, Just about anything by Shakespeare, (but I especially love), Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, King Lear, Silence by Shusaku Endo, The Samurai by Shusaku Endo, The Greek Passion by Nikos Kazantzakis, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks, The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery, A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond, Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden |