Annette
| Industry | Tourism |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Sales of website videos to Bed & Breakfasts |
| Location | California |
| Introduction | Almost a first time bride in my fifties, I lost my fiance and love of my life suddenly to a heart attack 16 months ago. He lives within me as a part of my Sparkle, my love, my inspiration to go on and to reinvent myself. It may be funny for you to imagine a grey haired high school football and baseball coach turned college administrator on the outside rodeo loving country boy on the inside as a muse, but he is mine. Though my heart, body, mind, and soul still and always will grieve for him and miss him constantly, I feel his hand now in my return to life. I know he believes as I do, that my Sparkle is indomitable. |
| Interests | Digital scrapbooking, baking, cooking, embroidery, reading, word games, mosaics, jewelry making, sewing, soapmaking, walking, farmers markets, flea markets, and antique stores. |
| Favorite movies | The King's Speech, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, An Education, The Invention of Lying, Bull Durham, Fantasia, Gone with the Wind |
| Favorite music | Joni Mitchell, Beatles, Van Morrison, Norah Jones, Gin Blossoms, James Taylor, Everything But the Girl |
| Favorite books | East of Eden, Tender is the Night, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sun Also Rises, Gift from the Sea, Animal Dreams, The Mermaids Singing, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Slouching Toward Bethlehem |
If you could peer far enough into the night sky, you'd see a star in any direction you looked. When would you sleep?
Stars in any direction? What a perfect question! I would imagine those stars to be each of us in this class...Sparkling!...and I would rest easily, in comfort and satisfaction knowing our spirits were nourished and peaceful in having expressed our creativity -- our Sparkle!