Mary Stewart Anthony
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Minister of Reconciliation |
| Location | Santa Cruz, California, United States |
| Introduction | Mary Stewart Anthony is an authentic flower child of the sixties, who moved from NYC to Berkeley Campus, and lived through those riotous times on Telegraph Avenue, was an early experimenter with Leary's own LSD, a former hippie who experienced conversion in 1972 during the Jesus Movement that swept through Big Sur, where she lived with her two daughters on top of Pfeiffer Ridge. This period of her life will soon be published in a memoir. She married John Francis Anthony, a Marine frontline Viet Nam veteran, in 1980, and he adopted her two children, Aimee and Lucia (born in Lucia, a town just south of Big Sur). They have just recently returned from their sojourn of 11 years in Latin America and China, having also traveled widely in Eastern Europe during the early 90's when the walls of Communism had just fallen. Apart from learning survival Hungarian, Spanish, and a smattering of Mandarin, they really learned that every human being shares the same dreams and hopes, despite their cultural differences. They were "Incarnational" internationals who didn't mind being stretched over oceans and mountains in order to touch others so different from themselves. |
| Interests | Writing poems, songs, books, gardening, baking bread, making yogurt, crocheting, knitting, cross-stitchery, playing harp, singing, reading, especially the dictionary, learning languages, and teaching English. |
| Favorite movies | Kingdom of Heaven, Star Wars, Matrix, The Mission, 1492, Slum Dog Millionaire, Crouching Tiger |
| Favorite music | Handel's Messiah, Toby Mac, Kirk Franklin, Third Day, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Harp music, Cold Mountain, Mystery of the Nile, |
| Favorite books | Dune, Dune Messiah, Les Miserables, Solzhenitsyn works, Science Fiction classics, The Little Prince, The Iliad and Odyssey, Poetry of Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, Flannery O'Connor |