Liz

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About me

Gender Female
Introduction writerish, introverted, impish.
Interests words. water. playing with fire. couchsurfing.com. the smell of books. pens. horses. dancing. specifically salsa dancing. riding bikes. arizona. creativity for peace. hiking. earth. piano. being sarcastic. making bad puns. eating papayas. ecology. photography. puerto rico. music. musicians. purple rain. zoology and biology. high heels. writing. singing. souls. ocean waves. literature. breath. conservation and sustainability. platanos. plants. gnawing on shoulders. mango smoothies. the desert. computers. astrology. poetry and short stories. penguins. mythology. farmers markets. eating locally produced food. environmental science. annie dillard. amber. animals. argyle socks. arizona. art. aveda. bad puns. balthasar disdains the lemon. barbara kingsolver. bare feet. beanies. bellydance. books. both hands. calla lillies. anais nin. candles. chai tea. christa bell. coffee. computers. contradiction. coquito. dancing. dark chocolate. dreaming. el coqui. elves. essential oils. faeries and unicorns. fire. fish. flamenco. flannel pants. funky hats. gabriel garcia marquez. gardening. goddess. guitars. high heels. hot showers. ice skating. james dean. jasmine. joni mitchell. jupiter. la ley. languages. las olas del mar. latin music. latinos. laughing. lavender. life. lizards. louise erdrich. love actually. massages. mis amigas. moments of zen. monsoons. noam chomsky. nourishing my soul. old souls with a good story to tell. pablo neruda. palm reading. paprika. people who play guitar. plum wine. pool. port. pretending i'm a mermaid. purr. putting on lipstick. reading. road trips. robi draco rosa. robin. rosemary. running. sage. salsa dancing. sarcasm. semi-colons. shoes. silk. snapdragons. snow. soul siblings. spanish. spinning in circles. spontaneity. sun on my skin. surfing. tea. the desert. the ocean. the scent of gardenia. the sun magazine. the thought of india. the too much. thunder and lightening. tiger lillies. tori amos. traveling. urban legends. living. everything.
Favorite Movies Day Night Day Night (look it up), Amelie, The Princess Bride, Motorcycle Diaries, Hero, Run Lola Run, Practical Magic, Chocolat, Como Agua Para Chocolate, The Emperor's New Groove, Frida, Benny and June, Ray, Snatch, Pirates, Lord of the Rings, Once Upon A Time in Mexico, Finding Nemo, The Fifth Element, Labyrinth, Soldados de Salamina, The "Planet Earth" series, Love Actually, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Moulin Rouge, X-men (2), The Last Unicorn, Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (both of them!), The Neverending Story, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, EVIL DEAD!, 12 Angry Men, Pulp Fiction, Groundhog Day, Requiem for a Dream, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rain Man, back to the Future, Memento, any Monty Python, what am I forgetting?
Favorite Music Tori Amos, Prince, Lila Downs, Amanda Palmer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes, Dave Matthews Band, Sam Cooke, Rasputina, The Bowmans, Poe, salsa, Otis Redding, Leonard Cohen, Antony and the Johnsons, Ryan Adams, Jack Johnson, Peter Gabriel, Fischerspooner, Blondie, Ben Folds Five, Rufus Wainwright, Sade, Robi Draco Rosa, Andrea Maxand, i is for ida, Bright Eyes, ThaMuseMeant, Shakira, Mozart, Nosotros, David Bowie, La India, John Lennon, Route 66 Killers, Dixie Chicks, Celia Cruz, Billie Myers, Juanes, Nickel Creek, Tarkan, Grupo Fantasma, Ozomatli, Sacha Sacket, Gipsy Kings, D Numbers, Weird Al, La Ley, Ibrahim Ferrar, Billy Idol, Chopin, Rachmaninoff.
Favorite Books Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Quipu by Arthur Sze. House of Incest by Anais Nin. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things by Larry Dossey. Most books by Craig Childs. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich. works by Aristophanes, Euripides, Homer, and Aeschylus, and other old old writers. Elegy by Larry Levis. Matt Donovan. This Organic Life by Joan Dye Gussow. Jack London. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell. Watership Down by Richard Adams. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. Great literature and creative nonfiction. Pretty much anything that has to do with organic farming, horses, gardening, linguistics, survival, or ecology.