RheAnn

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Non-Profit
Occupation Missionary to Japan
Location Fairfield, IL, United States
Introduction For information on how to donate or pledge support, please contact the Missions Ministry Team. By phone: 319-431-0990, By e-mail: watkr@me.com Or visit: https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=21898 (Be sure to name "RheAnn White" as your Specific Giving Area.)
Interests love, forgiveness, playing make-believe, forgetting the ground while listening to music, art (my own & others'), performance (same), poetry & prose (again), textures, travel, making & keeping friendships, trying new foods, activism, compassion, laughter, laughter through tears, healing, baby cows, authenticity, spontanaity, nonviolent communication, faith, JAPAN!
Favorite Movies Schindler's List, The War, Short Cuts, The Impostors, Steel Magnolias, (Spike Jonze), (John Hughes), Dead Poets Society, (Nick Hornby), Mary Poppins, (Akira Kurosawa), (Spalding Gray), (Coen Brothers), Nobody Knows, (Tennessee Williams), (Michael Moore), Paradise Lost..., --documentaries, in general--, Sherrybaby, The Reader, Sin Nombre, (Christopher Guest), The Visitor...
Favorite Music Josh Ritter, John Prine, David Bowie, Lucinda Williams, Band of Horses, Wilco, The Polyphonic Spree/Fragile Army, Vampire Weekend, Frank Zappa, Wolf Parade, Erin McKeown, Sondre Lerche, The 88, Kanye West, Talking Heads, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Violent Femmes, Journey (sometimes!), Ben Folds, Ben Harper, Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin, Carol King, John Legend, Belle & Sebastian, NKOTB (yeah, I said it!), Aimee Mann, Maria McKee, Pearl Jam, Michael Jackson, Tom Waits, Steve Earl, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Patty Griffin, Brandi Carlile, Suzanne Vega, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Cyndi Lauper, Sheryl Crow, Dixie Chicks, Indigo Girls, Old 97's, Albert Hammond Jr, Tina Turner, K'naan, David Mead, Bob Dylan, Flobots, Ryan Adams/Whiskeytown, Laura Cantrell, Butterfly Boucher, James, Brian Eno, Jonah Smith, Martin Sexton, Lyle Lovett, Simon & Garfunkle (& just Simon), Edie Brickell, Songs:Ohia, Magnetic Fields, The Cure, Dr. John...
Favorite Books --authors/poets currently next to my bed-- Sylvia Plath, Marge Piercy, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Father Thomas Keating, Bernie Glassman, Ram Dass, Arny Mindell, a collection of short stories based on the art of Joseph Cornell, Richard Brautigan, David Foster Wallace, & Haruki Murakami