Laura
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Occupation | home health aide and freelance writer |
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| Location | Rochester, NY, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | "It might interest you to know, speaking of the plentiful imagery of the world, that I am the sound of rain on the roof. I also happen to be the shooting star, the evening paper blowing down an alley and the basket of chestnuts on the kitchen table. I am also the moon in the trees and the blind woman's tea cup. But don't worry, I'm not the bread and the knife. You are still the bread and the knife. You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine." --Billy Collins |
| Interests | Recently, I don't seem to want to do much except for read, write, and contemplate the nature and origin of the existential angst and brilliant luminosity that are revealed within everyone, everything, and every moment. |
| Favorite movies | Donnie Darko, Born into Brothels, Charade, What the Bleep Do We Know, Me and You and Everyone We Know, the Edukators, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Children of Paradise, Bee Season, Lord of the Rings (extended versions- especially the Return of the King) |
| Favorite music | Bright Eyes, Ween, Tom Waits, Fiona Apple, Charles Mingus, Johnny Cash, Beck, Ella Fitzgerald, Ani Difranco, Taj Mahal, Morcheeba, Paul Simon, Tenacious D, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Sekou Sundiata, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Moby, John Lee Hooker, Melissa Ferrick, Vanessa Daou, PJ Harvey, The Beatles, Nina Simone, Muddy Waters, ... |
| Favorite books | Fiction: Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison, Illusions by Richard Bach, Plainsong by Kent Haruf, Momo by Michael Ende, Look at Me by Jennifer Egan, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, Toys Go Out by Emily Jenkins, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle, Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. Poetry: Song by Brigit Pegeen Kelly; Blood, Tin, Straw by Sharon Olds; The Painted Bed by Donald Hall; The Essential Haiku edited by Robert Hass; The Lost Pilot by James Tate; The Illuminated Rumi; Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth by Alice Walker; The Complete Works and Selected Letters of Rimbaud, a bilingual edition (edited by Fowlie and revised by Whidden); leadbelly by Tyehimba Jess; Crush by Richard Siken; American Dreams by sapphire; The Possibility of Being by Rilke; The End of Beauty by Jorie Graham Nonfiction: The Zen of Living and Dying by Roshi Philip Kapleau, Bring Me the Rhinocerous byJohn Tarrant, Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance by Lauro Martines, The Tassajara Bread Book by Edward Espe Brown, Thinking Clearly about Death by Jay F. Rosenberg, The Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff, The Writing Life by Annie Dillard. |