Wren King
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Honing a Razor's Edge at the Whetstone of Dream |
| Location | Atlanta, GA, United States |
| Introduction | ...trying to lead a repressed life, but she little divined the strength of her own vitality. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy (1891) |
| Interests | anonymity, the comic elements of reality & identity & endeavor, fiction & literature, the click-clack of syllable & sound, theology, Anglican & Episcopal missed steps & fits & directions & the places where we are holy, graphic design, poetry, the creative spirit, our American meanderings, social injustice(s), what it is to be human, art, the mystic impulse, family, movies & films, the energy(s) between a man & a woman, last days, mothers & children, lamentations & other pensive moments, the new generation(s), early Christianity, the dividing(s) between male & female, prayer, early morning light, wee babes, mornings or afternoons in the park, that hope of tomorrow for you & that hope of tomorrow for me, drinking tea, watching birds, contemplating trees & sunlight dancing on red brick walls & houses & sidewalks & stairwells & floors, the philosophies hidden in you & the lifetimes hidden in me... |
| Favorite movies | Wings of Desire, Dead Poet's Society, The Killing Fields, The Constant Gardener, Shrek, Miracle on 34th Street, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, AND TV Fringe, M.A.S.H., Revolution, The Andy Griffith Show |
| Favorite music | Ancient & Modern Hymns, Pavane Op. 50, Faure's Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48, Thaxted, Silkie, Be Thou My Vision, Innisfree Farm, Nessun Dorma, The Impossible Dream, Some Enchanted Evening, Stranger in Paradise, May It Be, My Heart Will Go On, Summertime, Climb Every Mountain, Classical (esp. Baroque & Early), Celtic, International, New Age |
| Favorite books | The Song of Songs, Lamentations, Revelation, Psalms, Proverbs, Tristram, The Artist's Way, A Farewell to Arms, Lady Chatterly's Lover, The Apostolic Fathers, Till We Have Faces, The Secret Garden, Thomas Wingfold Curate, House on the Strand, Strong's Concordance, The Complete Faery Tales of George MacDonald, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Whiteman, Goodnight Moon, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Hobbit, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Charlotte Grey, The Emperor & His Clothes, The Constant Gardener, Pilgrim's Progress, Jude the Obscure, All Hallows' Eve, At the Back of the North Wind, The Chicago Manual of Style, Where the Wild Things Are, 501 Latin Verbs, The Complete Brother's Grimm, The Book of Common Prayer, Heartbreak Hotel, Elisabeth & Her German Garden, The letters of Heloise & Abelard, The Chronicles of Narnia, Why Gender Matters, Robert Falconer, The House in Paris, The Interlinear Greek New Testament, Wide Sargossa Sea, The Penguin Bk of First World War Poetry, The Female Brain, The Moon & Sixpence, The Didache, Gaudy Night, The Complete Oxford English Dictionary, Collected Poems of Anna Akhmatova, The Book Thief, The Gospel of Thomas, Jane Eyre.... |
For your birthday, your aunt gave you a maple syrup dispenser shaped like a rooster. Please write her a thank-you note:
Dear Auntie El: I've always felt my secret self to be a bantam rooster. Your gift was just the ticket needed to let everybody know! I’ve filled him with demure metal paper clips (all that lovely silver sameness) & placed him in a most distinguished spot atop my hard-drive. He struts & crows & pretends he is filled with gold. You are so kind to remember me. A good rooster’s always hard to find…