A Rose
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Arlington, Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | A California transplant to northern Virginia, seeking justice, sanity, the quiet of the woods and the communion of the saints |
| Interests | mercy, Hoyas basketball, Wycliffe, Norway, swing dancing, backpacking, reading a sentence so divinely constructed that I stop and read it again, Scrabble, Chesterton with all his faults, extreme cooking as an Olympic sport, the Inklings, International Justice Mission, Honduras, brewing the perfect pot of tea, beating the insomnia, running, old hymns, stained-glass church windows, rocking chairs, sourdough, Intervarsity, hospitality, librivox, cast-iron skillets, the AP Style Guide, live productions of Shakespeare, do-it-yourself house projects, abolishing the modern slave trade, the Bishop's Garden at the National Cathedral, black market Amish groceries, gratitude, blue, rule of law on behalf of the poor, inductive Bible study |
| Favorite Movies | Movie of the day: Something the Lord Made |
| Favorite Music | Gin Blossoms, Sara Groves, Jars of Clay, Third Day, Nickel Creek |
| Favorite Books | Books I am reading right now: Baptism (Michael Green); The Best of Oscar Wilde (Oscar Wilde); The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins); Reading Lolita in Tehran (Azar Nafisi) |
Favorite quotes: "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will." -- William Shakespeare (Hamlet) "The worth and excellency of a soul is measured by the object of its affection." - Henry Scougal, 1677 "Justice is what love looks like in public." - Cornel West "What good is it to be the best-looking horse in the glue factory?" - Richard Bixby