Evenland
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Tutor, Teacher, Naturopath |
| Location | Wisconsiana, Wisconsin |
| Introduction | Singing, narrating, hearkening, conspiring, inspiring, wordwhimsying, folkdancing, cooking, foraging, hobbit-hole ornamenting, deadlifting, stoneheaving, cycling, land-striding, cold-sea swimming, excavating (bins), meadmaking, feasting, hosting unforgettable evenings. Also: Taking care of (and befriending) the insane; artesan archiving; creative writing; building indoor fires; snooping and sneaking after midnight; carrying car-loads of stuff w/o a car; smooching (and (s)mooching off of). |
| Interests | pre-industrial acumen and awareness. delight in life & people. magnanimity. grit. romance. subsistant, paleolithic and permacultural thriving and living. mythopoeic theist writers. mediaeval vision, desire, awe, humility. primal arms & strike-wrastling. folk heroism. local, pastoral and regional revivalism. home and domesticity (true government). North Atlantic Eurasian Uralian Teutonic Celtic and Proto-American languages, myths, lifestyles. The North. draught horses, mules, ponies, lamb-flocks, goat-milk, milkmaids, Renaissance women, beekeeping, conifers, Christmas, herbalism, alchemy, meat-rending, firemaking, smokemaking. Belgian, Imperial and bourbon-barrel oak-aged ales. Alpine & Mediterranean cuisine. English seasonal songs, Scottish vagabond / pastoral ballads, Appalachian folkways, Broadsides, Scandinavian mediaeval ballads, Elder Edda, Irish Sean-nós, Hungarian/Romanian revels & jubilation, Contra dance, Border Morris. |
| Favorite Movies | Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Kristin Lavransdatter. Rob Roy. The Dead (John Houston). Gran Torino. The Outlaw (Gísla Saga) |
| Favorite Music | Väsen, Värttinä, Clannad, Enya, Nic Jones, John Roberts/Tony Barrand, clemencic consort, hesperion xxi, *ensemble mediva, La Reverdie, ossian, robert burns, william jackson, neil & nathaniel gow, byss-calle, turlough o'carolyn, guillaume dufay, francesco landini, paul mckenna band, dervish, ranarim, vidar lande, nyckelharpa orchestra, JPP, bua, eileen ivers, de temps antan, symphonic folk/jazz/altern, kálmán balogh & the gypsy cimbalom band, Hubert von Goisern! |
| Favorite Books | The Silmarillion, Lilith, The Elder Edda, Manalive, Íslensk Orðsifjabók, Mysterier(Knut Hamsun), Tacitus germania, Story of the Glittering Plain (W.Morris), The Hobbit, A Voyage to Arcturus, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Marvelous Land of Snergs (E.A. Wyke-Smith), The Well at the World's End, Völsunga Saga, Grettis Saga, Kristin Lavransdatter, Lord Of The Rings, Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales, The Wind in the Willows, Dr Seuss's Sleep Book, The Roots of the Mountains (W. Morris), Beowulf, Grimm Brothers Dictionary of German (32 vols), Oxford English Dictionary, Perelandra, The Great Divorce, Wessex Tales, A Grief Observed |