Graciewilde
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Middle School Guidance Counselor |
| Location | Northern California, United States |
| Introduction | I am a curious person, interested in many aspects of life. I am also a bundle of contradictions. I enjoy people - interacting and just people watching - and I also very much enjoy solitude. I love to be active. The current activity of choice is bicycling but I have been a runner, a swimmer, a kickboxer, a weight lifter, and always a hiker. At the same time, I am very happy to read for hours or to write and rewrite. I can spend a lot of time painting abstract art (acrylics) and I have a stack of completed works to prove that. I am a guidance counselor at a public middle school in California. It is a relatively small middle school and so I wear many hats. It is the ideal work for me at this time in my life. I have a genuine affection for kids and especially for those kids who don't jive so well with the world (or the world doesn't jive so well with them). I also am remarkably organized (despite what my office might suggest) and welcome a jam packed day. That's a good thing since most days are non stop action - most of it unpredictable! Love it! |
| Interests | Bicycling in Sonoma County, painting bold abstract art, writing what comes to mind, building a website, spending my days with middle school people, laughing with friends, walks at dawn, watching Boston Legal reruns, being a girl, photographing people and urban glimpses, reading lots of things |
| Favorite movies | It's Complicated, Tender Mercies, As Good As It Gets, Harold and Maude, A League of Their Own, Into the Wild, Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Same Time Next Year, The Graduate, The Quiet Man, The Unidentified, The Family Stone, Forrest Gump, The Kids Are All Right, and lots more |
| Favorite music | Bob (Dylan and Marley), Paul and Art, Jackson Browne, CSNY -- you get it - but also contemporary folks as introduced to me |
| Favorite books | Into the Wild, Barbara Kingsolver stuff, The Geography of Bliss, The Survivors Club, This I Believe, She's Come Undone, Chaim Potok's stuff, While I Was Gone, most of the books written by Chris Bohjalian, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, West of Kabul, East of New York, Wild, How Georgia Became O'Keeffe and thousands more |