Suellen Cox
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Faculty Librarian |
| Location | Orinda, California, United States |
| Introduction | Hello and welcome to Leaves and Blooms. My name is Suellen. I am a retired reference librarian. I worked at Saint Mary's College Library for four years, and before that I was an instruction/reference librarian at California State University Fullerton. Although my profession is academic librarianship, my passion is gardening, art, and everything Bloomsbury, especially the inspiring works of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville West, and the paintings of Vanessa Bell. Before moving to Orinda, I lived and gardened in Silverado Canyon. My current Orinda garden is in many ways a reflection of me and this blog....a work in progress. My garden remains, as always, my canvas; the California natives and agreeable perennials the colors on my palette. My Santa Rosa plum, apples, pear and now fig trees vex me in late June, calling me to remain at home. I am making this Orinda garden my own. |
| Interests | Gardening, Writing, Researching the life and art of Vanessa Bell, Reading, Traveling, attending chamber music concerts and poetry readings |
| Favorite Music | *Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F major, *Charles Trenent--La Mer, *Madeleine Peyroux---la javanaise, *Edith Piaf---La Vie en Rose |
| Favorite Books | Adam Zagajewski---Without End: New and Selected Poems, Virginia Woolf---A Room of One's Own, Margaret Atwood---Handmaids Tale, Toni Morrison---Beloved, Regina Marler---Seleced Letters of Vanessa Bell, Noel Riley Fitch---Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation, Sherry Benstock---Women of the Left Bank, Johnathan Lethan---Fortress of Solitude, Barbara Kingsolver---The Poisonwood Bible, Stephen Greenblatt---The Swerve: How the World Became Modern |
Who would you like to be for a day? the color on an artists paint brush