ladyelms
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Midwife apprentice, SAHM to 4 boys. |
| Location | Front Range, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a happy thirty-something wife of 20 years, mother to four home-born boys (17, 13, 10 and 1). My life as a birth assistant as I shadow a local homebirth midwife. "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." |
| Interests | ren fairs, earth based spirituality, Buddhism, martial arts, ancient pagan cultures and symbolism, theology, social progression, raw foods, cleansing, dumbek and djembe drums, drum circles, belly dance, local coffee houses, fashion, handcrafted stone jewelry, traditional instruments, pre-raphaelite art, the Italian Renaissance, live music, independant media, Indian and Thai food, cultural anthropology, extended breastfeeding, attachment parenting, John William Waterhouse and margarita's. |
| Favorite movies | Unfaithful, The Gift, A History of Violence, House of Sand and Fog, Baraka, Koyaanisqatsi, American Beauty, Crash, The Fog of War (documentary), Women and Spirituality (documentary) |
| Favorite music | Dead Can Dance, Loreena McKennitt, Portishead, Tori Amos, The John Butler Trio, Rusted Root, Damien Rice, Ani Defranco, Beth Orton, Sia, TOOL, A Perfect Circle, Massive Attack, Tricky, Collide, Thievery Corporation |
| Favorite books | The Red Tent, The Great Cosmic Mother, Prodigal Summer, Memoirs of Cleopatra, Circle Round, Mists of Avalon, The Natural Child Project, In the Land of Winter, Baby Catcher, The Teenage Liberation Handbook. |