barbara
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | translator, slowly transitioning into something else hopefully having to do with art and crafts... |
| Introduction | An earthquake, a divorce, a loss. Moving beyond to build a new life, to connect with kindred spirits through pencils, watercolors and the love for art and creativity I've always had, although I never took art classes. "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step". This blog is my first step, to embrace my tiger and return to my mountain. |
| Interests | Reading, drawing, crafts, art, cinema, walking, travelling, foreing languages, children, tai chi chuan, origami. |
| Favorite movies | Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, The silence of the lambs, Once, Running on Empty, Star Wars, The hours, La vita è bella, One flew over the coocoo's nest, Kill Bill, La meglio gioventù, Who framed Roger Rabbit, Karate Kid, Blade Runner etc. etc. |
| Favorite music | Almost everything, except for dodecaphonic music. |
| Favorite books | Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), The Witches (Dahl), Green River rising (Willocks), Frankenstein (Shelley), The Martian Chronicles (Bradbury), Blood Work (Connelly), Gli arancini di Montalbano (Camilleri), Persepolis (Satrapi), Maus (Spiegelman), Das Parfum (Suskind), Arboreto salvatico (Rigoni Stern), How Green Was My Valley (Llewellyn), Mémoires d'Hadrien (Yourcenar), Breviario per il mare e per i monti (Fiengo), Two little savages (Seton), etc. etc. etc. |