Asta Lander
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | painter and writer |
| Location | Australia |
| Introduction | Who am I? Simple living, Franciscan, vegan, artist and writer, who loves her family - human and animal, and works to bring peace, justice, comfort, harmony and joy into the world. I love verge collections, rescuing greyhounds, colour – the brighter the better, and sitting with the homeless on street corners. In 2013 I completed my 365 Paintings Challenge. |
| Interests | greyhounds, creating, op shopping, simple living, the rights of the voiceless |
| Favorite movies | Pay it Forward, You've got mail, It's a Wonderful Life, Frida, Seriphine, Brother Son Sister Moon... |
| Favorite music | Taize, monastic, Hildegard de Bingen, J Phillip Newell, Jeff Buckley, Sinead O'Connor, K d Lang, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell |
| Favorite books | Pollyanna - she taught me the glad game, Helen Keller's biography - she taught me to persevere, Famous Five and Secret Seven - they taught me about adventure, The Secret Garden. The Artist's Way, Forgotten Garden, Gift by the Sea,The Friends We keep: Unleashing Christianity's Compassion for animals, Vegan's Daily Companion, Dominion by Matthew Scully, Teaching a Stone to Talk, Cloister Walk, Following Francis by Susan Pitchford, The Little Flowers of Saint Francis, Jan Richardson's In Wisdom's Path, books by Penelope Wilcock, Wuthering Heights, Letters to the end of love by Yvette Walker, anything on Klimt or Frida Kahlo and many, many more |