Anna
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Portland, OR, United States |
| Introduction | Weird, many say. Rilke - INITIATION/ Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know each bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are. Then with your eyes that wearily scarce lift themselves from the worn-out door-stone slowly you raise a shadowy black tree and fix it on the sky: slender, alone. And you have made the world (and it shall grow and ripen as a word, unspoken, still). When you have grasped its meaning with your will, then tenderly your eyes will let it go… . . . AT SUNDOWN/Slowly the evening starts to change her raiments for veils held up by rows of distant trees. You watch how gradually the landscape's contours change, some rising heavenward as others downward fall; leaving you alone, to neither quite belonging, nor quite as dark as houses silent keep, nor quite so sure beseeching the eternal as that which nightly turns to star and rises --- and leaving you (impossible to disentangle) your life, fearful, gigantic and still ripening, which, now limited, now comprehending, alternately becomes stone in you and star. |
| Interests | Math, art, film, architecture, design, children's fashion, and intellectual history. |
| Favorite Movies | Keislowski's films |
| Favorite Music | Electronic music and Zbigniew Preisner |
| Favorite Books | Chaim Potok, Nassim Taleb, Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle, Little Lamb Who Made Thee? by Walter Wangerin Jr. |
Your people want to make a statue in your honor. What will it be made out of and what victory will it commemorate?
Stone. People choosing to develop their freedom.