Raindear
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Pursuit of Wisdom |
| Location | Domus Laxtonorum, United States |
| Introduction | I have desired to go/ Where springs not fail,/ To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail/ And a few lilies blow./ And I have asked to be/ Where no storms come,/ Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,/ And out of the swing of the sea. GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS |
| Interests | Music, Agrarianism, old books, cooking, drawing, Distributism, fairy tales, hiking, illuminated manuscripts, natural medicine, the Latin Mass, parlor games, gardening, philosophy, knitting, chess, Monarchy, embroidery, English Country Dancing |
| Favorite Movies | Pride and Prejudice, The Princess Bride, North and South(British), A Man For All Seasons, Our Mutual Friend, Victoria and Albert, The Quiet Man, Sense and Sensibility, Life is Beautiful, The Passion of Bernadette, Wives and Daughters |
| Favorite Music | Traditional Scottish, Polyphony(Victoria, Byrd, Palestrina, Tallis), Classical(Bach, Mozart, Charpentier, Vivaldi) Blue Grass, Gregorian Chant, traditional Celtic, Byzantine Chant, Madrigals |
| Favorite Books | The Lord of the Rings(Tolkien), Little Daylight(George MacDonald), Confessions of a Convert(Robert Hugh Benson), Persuasion(Austen), Sonnets from the Portuguese(Elizabeth Barret Browning), Green Dolphin Street(Elizabeth Goudge), On Monarchy and Kingship(Aquinas), War and Peace(Tolstoy), Leisure the Basis of Culture(Josef Pieper), Mansfield Park(Austen), Tales of the Long Bow(Chesterton), The Virginian(Owen Wister), David Copperfield(Dickens), The Great Divorce(C.S.Lewis), Leaf by Niggle(Tolkien) anything by P.G. Wodehouse, The Hungry Soul(Leon Kass) |