I love to cook and have friends/family over.
I love to write, sing, read, listen to music, dance, paint, cook, watch movies....especially old ones. I love my girlfriends! and last but not least.... I love gardening...flowers...My husband is a good friend of mine.
I just read my profile... how droll...
Music
Hmmm.... I like to listen to female singers who have sweet, lazy sexy voices or powerful angelic voices... (not the screechy, "I'm mad at the world" sort of voice}.
I grew up listening to a lot of 60's and 70's R and B (like Otis Redding, Percy Sledge, Aretha Franklin, etc.), so I am partial to it.
Classical music moves me like no other (especially violin)
Some folk music soothes me,
Alternative rock like Collective Soul, Three Doors Down, Nickleback, Pearl Jam, AudioSlave
Pink Floyd, 70's music,
some Cajun music and a tiny bit of country music. (but not much country,please) Oh and I love the guitar. My son learned to play on his own and he is amazing!
I love the A and E presentation of Pride and Prejudice.
There was a movie that once scared the living daylights out of me when I was a little girl...and even now... as the years blow by like a wild rain I think I see Baby Jane in my mirror...
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Dangerous Liasons (Also The Valmont)
Interview with the Vampire.
The 6th sense.
The Crossing Guard
Reservoir Dogs
The Green Mile
Ordinary People
Crash
Pulp Fiction
Stuart Saves His Family
Schindler's List
Fateless
The Trip to Bountiful
Ben Hur
The Ten Commandments (Isn't Yul Brynner the best?
..
In The Heat of The Night (movie only. TV series was lame)
To Sir With Love (Poitier is so gifted)
Sayanara (Brando had his moments in his youth)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Southern Comfort (Keith Caradine is kinda cute.)
The Great Escape
Affliction
The Gift
A Christmas Carol
Quest for Fire
A Place in the Sun (Monty Cliff and Liz Taylor; ooo there is a part in this film that give me shivers! The loon on the lake for instance.
A Pocketful of Miracles
The Sand Pebbles (RIP Steve McQueen)
My Cousin Vinny ("The Two Yutes")
Without a Trace (MOVIE, not series)
Brubaker
The Time Machine (1960)
Tennessee Williams wrote some killer screen plays.
Anything with a moral or a meaning.... Of course I like movies with a feel good ending, but there must be more to it than that. There must be a plot.. A drama should make me think or pose questions that I never thought of asking. Life is not about feel good endings, so I can take the painful ones too.. but teach me something. Unfortunately, they don't make movies like they used to.
I Love the characters in "Jaws".
Television
Deadwood. You have to admit, Deadwood is a pretty cool show even though everyone speaks like Shakespeare and cusses like sailors. American Justice, Cold Case Files, Justice Files. Law and Order. The History Channel. The Learning Channel. Animal Planet...
Books
All of them.
I LOVE and ADORE classic novels, that were written in the 18th and 19th centuries... There are some wonderful ones after that of course!, but the books that came from moral men are littered across my shelves. For me, when it comes to fiction, less is better.... the innuendo, the implied feelings... I love that. Charles Dickens is one of my favorites! James Hurst, A.J. Cronin, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, John Cleland, Jack London, Daphne du Maurier, Oliver Goldsmith, C.S. Lewis, John Irving, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky.. to name a few...
One of the sweetest short stories I have ever read, was "The Scarlet Ibis"....
One of the funniest books ever written: Confederacy of Dunces
Heroes
Webster defines hero as: a person of extreme admiration and devotion ~
Therefore, the persons I admire are My children...My husband... my father who has endured so much loss, my brother, and a number of friends.
Adoramus te Christe; et benedicimus Tibi: quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum
Munga We had an awesome thanksgiving and then turkey and dumplings the day after. Still on a diet and doing okay; nothing to brag about. Christmas shopping now and Posted at 2:59 AM Nov 28 view more
My husband looks a little like Michael Biehn.
grrrrrl
I don't like:
sleepless nights,
rushing,
driving in big cities,
arrogance,
gossip,
jealousy,
troublemakers,
braggarts,
chronically negative individuals,
rebels without a cause,
people who have no compassion,
people who are mean to children or animals. (or me...),
I love:
My "clucks"
Dusk
clean sheets,
bright summer days of oppressive heat,
warming my hands by a fire,
the smell of burning leaves,
snuggling with babies,
hot baths
perfume
pretty toenails
flip flops
old blue jeans
my dad's shirts
how mud feels between my toes,
the beach,
the smell of pine sol,
home-cooked meals(from scratch)
my husband's hands
the warmth of a fresh picked tomato,
flowers in a girl's hair,
puppies,
people who cry at movies,
Men in wife beater shirts,
" There's nothing too unimaginable to endure, and in my own way, I already know, that lying in wait for me, like some unavoidable trap, is happiness".
~ Gyuri of "Fateless"
"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."
~Socrates
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
~ C.S. Lewis
"Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst."
~ C.S. Lewis
"Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait; and love one another."
..George Harrison
"For although I believe I know what the real miracles are, my belief in God disturbs and unsettles me much more than not believing ever did; unbelief seems vastly harder to me now than belief does --- but belief poses so many unanswerable questions!" ~ John of "A Prayer For Owen Meany"
"I was created in love. [God's love] For that reason nothing can express my beauty nor liberate me except love alone."
~Machtild of Magdeburg
"For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy."
~Saint Therese of Lisieux
Beauty, of whatever kind, invariably excites the human soul to tears.
~Edgar Allan Poe
"Prayer is not asking.
It is a longing of the soul.
It is daily admission of one's weakness...
It is better in prayer to have a heart
without words than words without a heart."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
...To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
~William Wordsworth~
"Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person."
~Tennessee Williams
Whom have I in heaven but you?
And besides you, I desire nothing on earth.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
~ Psalm
AMPLE make this bed.
Make this bed with awe;
In it wait till judgment break
Excellent and fair.
Be its mattress straight,
Be its pillow round;
Let no sunrise’ yellow noise
Interrupt this ground.
~Emily Dickenson
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us... We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of
someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us"
~Franz Kafka
On the day I had my first child, I knew instinctively that the way my heart would love was changed forever... and now that all of my little clucks are grown and gone, I know that the way my heart grieves has also taken a turn; forever. The broken heart swells though and thereby holds more water.
~ An Empty Nester
(This is my little statue, whom I have named David. Look how his toe curls up.)
Who I'd like to meet:
Obviously, I want to meet YOU! or I wouldn't be here. I'd like to meet nice people who like to laugh and share their thoughts. I like genuine people who are imaginative, who don't mind showing their feelings, deep thinkers and gentle souls... You don't have to be an intellectual; but a rational mind helps. I'm interested in how you feel on a variety of subjects! Please, no American haters. I don't need to see 7000 names in my friends list. I do a little house cleaning every now and again.
I'm a monogamous swan and I'm in a romantic relationship with my husband...
There are persons who have gone on to the other side that I would like to meet.
I would like to meet both C.S. Lewis and Shakespeare, but not on the same day.
Hi Munga! In my picture..taken at Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans..I am licking the powdered sugar from the beignet off my fingers...Joe caught me in the middle of the dastardly deed...I can only wish it were marshmallow!
Hi, Beckie! :) Are you still here on MySpace? I've deleted my facebook account and I hope to re-connect with all of my buddies here. Cheers and hugs your way!
You aren't here nearly enough. Now that you've blogged again I realize how I've missed you! Here one of my favourite rose-photos of the moment. I can almost not believe that I took it. xxxx
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