Leaving.Something.Behind
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Writer / Editor |
| Location | Olneyville, Northeast, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | From Joseph Conrad, for now: To snatch in a moment of courage, from the remorseless rush of time, a passing phase of life, is only the beginning of the task. The task approached in tenderness and faith is to hold up unquestioningly, without choice and without fear, the rescued fragment before all eyes in the light of a sincere mood. It is to show its vibration, its color, its form; and through its movement, its form, and its color, reveal the substance of its truth—disclose its inspiring secret: the stress and passion within the core of each convincing moment. In a single-minded attempt of that kind, if one be deserving and fortunate, one may perchance attain to such clearness of sincerity that at last the presented vision of regret or pity, of terror or birth, shall awaken in the hearts of the beholders that feeling of unavoidable solidarity; of the solidarity in mysterious origin, in toil, in joy, in hope, in uncertain fate, which binds men to each other and all mankind to the visible world. |
| Interests | Writing, reading, people on the margins, voices in the woods, jagged throughlines travelling down the middles of disease, dysfunction, despair, booze, children, families, men with scams and scabs, women with wounds and warrior instincts, death skipping through it all and its siren scream, and resurrection, of course, art classic and subverted, absent gods, hollow oracles, moonlight, big waters, hope, not hope, lost loves, love children, memory holes, cities, cities, cities, peace, old friends |
| Favorite Movies | Night of the Hunter, White Heat, Bride of Frankenstein, Crash, Silence of the Lambs, Always, A Home at the End of the World, and more |
| Favorite Music | The voices of LaBelle, Gaye, James, Buckley, Green, Pavarotti, Ledet, Morrison, Eva, Eva, Eva, lang, Simone, Baker; the guitars of Clapton, Santana, Stevie Ray; the grit of Alabama Shakes, the keen of Irish tenors caught in their laments . . . much, much more |
| Favorite Books | Those by Moore, Chabon, Lethem, Atkinson, Cunningham, Lee (1), Kingsolver, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, The Art of Fielding, Final Payments and many many more |
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