The ability to forgive and the ability to love are the weapons given to us to enable us to live fully, bravely, and meaningfully in this less than perfect world.
writing, art, music, feminism, literature theory, the great outdoors, jogging, singing in the shower, Irish art, folklore, and history, random road trips, meaningful conversations over coffee, laying on the ground and gazing up at the sky day/night, drinking wine with my momma, dancing in the dark, attending live poetry readings, going to FYE and previewing CDs for hours, anything piano related, sittin' on the front lawn and drinking with Charley, cooking out with dad, sand, thrift stores, collecting fedoras, hugging (hey, we all could use a hug sometimes), partying with my ladies, being a friend, a lover, and a faithful confident...
Music
Deftones, A Perfect Circle, Bjork, Matthew Good, The Black Keys, the Beatles, Sia Furler, Metric, the Blow, Incubus, Neverending White Lights, Dredg, Seal, Alanis, the Swell Season, Amos Lee, Pixies, Fiona Apple, Radiohead, Vast, AshesDivide, Yann Tiersen, Elliot Smith, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Amon Tobin, Weezer, PJ Harvey, Imogen Heap, Team Sleep, Thrice, Revolution Smile, God or Julie, Wilco, Jeff Tweedy, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tv on the Radio, Raine Maida, Anna Ternheim, Band of Horses, the Sundays, MGMT, Nicole Atkins and the Sea, Scott Matthews, whatever is on my music player, etc.
Movies
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Stay, Little Miss Sunshine, Cold Mountain, Fight Club, Hope Floats, Closer, Garden State, Sway, Almost Famous, White Oleander, Crash
Television
Anderson Cooper a.k.a. the Silver Fox
Books
White Oleander, The Great Gatsby, WAS, Frankenstein, A Man For All Seasons, The Sound and the Fury, A Separate Peace, Absolute Normal Chaos, Pride and Prejudice, Lost Horizon, The Sea Around Us, Little Women, Tales of Poe, Two Years Before the Mast, The People's History of Ireland, Shakespeare, Goddess, Inside Madonna, etc.
Scarlet is looking forward to reading the students' personal narratives! Personal narratives must be the best part about being an English teacher! Posted at 1:30 AM Nov 22 view more
About me: "Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate as we voyage through our life. Tis the set of the soul that decides the goal and not the storm or the strife." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life is a three-ring binder, a compilation of moments, a lengthy lecture in which the tests are lessons learned. Experiences are like tree branches, extending through the duration of weathering, growing out of our perceptions, we are acclimated to tethering. Love is a life jacket, to keep us afloat amidst unsteady seas. Vital to our preservation, it is the lifeline on which the safety of our existence depends... ~ Julie S.
Who I'd like to meet: Kind, intelligent souls, funny people, and of course, I'd love to sit in on a seminar of Dr. Tyson's or Janet Fitch's. It would be amazing to have a conversation with Keats, Wordsworth, Blake, or any of those crazy Romantic poets....Elizabeth Bishop, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jane Austen, Robert Frost, Hillary Clinton, Natalie Portman, Bic Runga, Chino, Anderson Cooper, Jesus, the inventors of ketchup and the drink 1809.
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Ah, Mlle Roux! Vous êtes un tel vixen! Vous brûlez le ciel avec votre regard. Ébullitions de l'eau à votre contact. Ce n'est aucune merveille que vous êtes considéré le meilleur à Paris!
Hey, Julie. This is Burt Reynolds. I heard it was your birthday. That's fine - just fine! I hope it's a great one, and that the next year brings you lotsa joy. I'd like to leave you now with a quote from my classic 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit:
Sorry your virus protection sofware wouldn't allow you to listen to it, so I uploaded it so I could stick it to your profile, like some sort of Post-It. Well, do with it what you will of your own volition.
Baby, I'm telling you truly Though this rhyme-scheme may be quite unruly That it makes my heart flutter, turns my knees into butter Just to think about you - my sweet Julie!
Twas last night at the Pla-Mor And all through the club People were milling Not having much fun When what to my wondering eyes should appear But your BFF Danna, just drinking a beer I caught her attention And then called her name We squealed just like schoolgirls It was not at all lame I talked to her boyfriend I asked him his thoughts Eventually I Bought Danna a shot I met some of her gay friends She met some of mine There was much karaoke It was a good time But the one thing I thought As I left there that night Was that if Julie had been there It would have been tight!
It takes me about 20 tries to leave you a phone message because I'm so long-winded it always cuts me off. I guess I just need to talk faster and say less!
I've listened to "My Secret" at least a dozen times. It gives me chills! You truly have an exemplary taste in music. Every new song you add is a revelation.
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