Tuva
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Location | Australia |
| Introduction | I am a winter child thriving in the tropics. My heart is divided between two countries that couldn't be much further apart. I love literature and poetry and words and I am forever consuming books. In December 2009 I became a Mum, and my life is busier and fuller than ever...and a little bit crazy as I navigate the unknown landscape of motherhood. (Ps! Tuva is not my real name, but one that I am sometimes referred to as) |
| Interests | Literature, 20th century & contemporary art, writing, food, drinking tea, documenting the external world through my camera lens and my inner topography through words and paint and paper cuttings, green living, searching for truths, outdoors, hiking, cross-country skiing, snorkeling & scuba diving, yoga, mindfulness practice, travel, film, listen to music, marine ecology, ecological & environmental sustainability, non-violence, humanitarian rights, the state of the world |
| Favorite Movies | Everything by Wong Kar-Wai, Dancer in the dark, Closer, Beyond Borders, As it is in Heaven (så som i himmelen), The Bourne triology, Walk the Line, Shine, For Love Or Country: Arturo Sandoval Story, Romulus My Father, Ten Canoes, Hotel Rwanda, The Hours, A Room With a View, Blue, North & South (the BBC series based on E. Gaskell's novel), Reprise, Hawaii Oslo, Magnolia, Love Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants), Candy, Dogville, Monsoon Wedding, Lagaan, The Cup, Travellers and Magicians, The Proposition, Brokeback Mountain, The Return, Little Miss Sunshine, Casanova, Modigliani (for the beautiful cinematography), The Shadow Dancer (also known as Shadows in the Sun), Green Papaya, Nói Albinói, The Piano, As good as it gets, An Angel At My Table, Rabbit-Proof Fence, ... |
| Favorite Music | Tango/latin/arabic/gypsie/indian/eastern inspired music, jazz, nu jazz, dub, drum'n'base, classical, .... Bjork, PJ Harvey, Gotan Project, Ane Brun, Madrugada, Lhasa, Anouar Brahem, Zakir Hussain, St Germain, Calexico, Saint Germain Des prés café, the Killers, Anja Garbarek, Nick Cave, Radka Toneff |
| Favorite Books | Ah...too many...but from the top of my head:, Rimbaud's complete works, Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut), A suitable boy & The golden gate (Vikram Seth), Gitanjahli (Rabindranath Tagore), A fine balance (Rohinton Mistry), In the country of men (Hisham Matar), Atonement (Ian McEwan), The grapes of wrath (Steinbeck), On beauty (Zadie Smith), The Turning & Cloud street (Tim Winton), Oracle night (Paul Auster), Steppenwolf & Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse), What I loved (Siri Hustvedt), Out steeling horses & In the wake & Måne over Porten...everything by Per Petterson, Hunger (Knut Hamsun), The half brother & Maskeblomstfamilien (Lars Saabye Christensen), Autobiography of Janet Frame, Faces in the water (Janet Frame), The harp in the south (Ruth Park), Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), The good earth (Pearl Buck), A passage to India (Forster), Miss Smilla's feeling for snow (Høeg), The fish can sing (Laxness), To the lighthouse (Woolf), Interpreter of maladies (Lahiri), The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian (Sherman Alexie), Emergency Sex: and other desperate mesures (Cain, Postlewait, Thomson), The places in between (Rory Stewart), .... |
When you spilled the milk, did it look like the moon?
Just the way William Blake could see the whole world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower, the entire solar system appeared in the reflections of those droplets of spillage