Title: language fool

Gender: Female

Age: 41

Sun Sign: Aries

Chinese Sign: Fire Goat

Location: southern Appalachia

I'm a teacher, a writer, a sometimes thinker, and a photographer.
I'm an old soul in love with paradox, addicted to the promises of connection and the restorative space of solitude, sweet on the generative power of conversation and the kindness of time alone.
I'm a traveler, a cat person, a seer of smallness, and a watcher of hawks and herons.
I'm a lover of silence, voice, story, trees, strong Yorkshire tea with real cream, an eclectic range of music and film, rivers, new colors, and the flavors of hidden kitchens of all kinds.
I'm still learning how to see, how to understand and listen to words and the spaces in between them.

If the wind means me, I'm here! Here.
–Theodore Roethke

The sound of the water says what I think.-
-Chuang-tzu

Trust shows the way. —Hildegarde of Bingen

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
–Byron Katie

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing. –John Cage

I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous moments of eternity that just happen. We know them. –Coleman Barks

If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.–Alan Watts

You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeing it. –Charlotte Joko Beck

May my body be a prayerstick for the world. – Roshi Joan Halifax

You are what you is. –Frank Zappa

Between living and dreaming
there is a third thing
guess it
–Antonio Machado

Poetry
says
what I keep silent
keeps silent
what I have to say,
dreams
what I forget.
–Octavio Paz

But I'm the metallic nimbus, the ring
chained to space, clouds, spheres
that touches hurtling mute waters,
and again defies the infinite inclemency.
Pablo Neruda

What he has not to say is a long
wonder the world can bear & be.
Once in a sycamore I was glad
all at the top, and I sang.
Hard on the land wears the strong sea
and empty grows every bed.
–John Berryman, from Dream Song 1

What would we have to
hold in compassion
to be at peace right now?

What would we have to
let go of
to be at peace right now?
–Jack Kornfield

The truth is where it is, and sometimes it's in the candy store.
–Bob Dylan

A. A violent order is disorder; and B. A great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
–Wallace Stevens

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
–Diane Arbus

“Nothing,” said Moon. “I was trying to focus one way or the other and I got confused and fell over. Let that  be my epitaph.”
–Tom Stoppard

What does the swallow know of the owl's insomnia?
–Mark Strand

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
–William Stafford

Linkages:
http://www.webdelsol.com/
http://www.webspawner.com/users/broper/
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/
http://www.theonion.com/content/ads/premercial.php?target=L2NvbnRlbnQvaW5kZXg=
http://www.parisreview.com/
http://www.sustainabilityed.org/
http://www.cedarhillenrichment.org/  this is not far from where I live…
http://fusionanomaly.net/underworld.html
http://darkblooms.blogspot.com/
http://www.grist.org/
http://www.cswnet.com/~erin/lawrence.htm
http://www.santosha.com/
http://literati.net/Silko/
http://www.gratefulness.org/
http://www.stashtea.com/
http://www.cosmicwind.net/800/Cmwl/SiteMap/CmwlSiteMap.html

http://www.poems.com/
http://www.conduit.org/
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Home.jsp
http://www.folkschool.com/  the John Campbell Folk School, in Brasstown, NC
http://www.keeppickensbeautiful.com/ 
http://www.punkplanet.com/
http://www.nodepression.net/
http://www.dirtylinen.com/
http://www.savedarfur.org/content?splash=yes Save Darfur
http://www.alternet.org/
http://www.orionsociety.org/
http://pickensanimalrescue.org/
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html rare map collection at the university of georgia
http://www.uga.edu/gamuseum/index.html the georgia museum of art, in athens, ga.
http://www.epicurious.com/
http://www.vegetariantimes.com/
http://www.peets.com/fvpage.asp?rdir=1& Peets Coffee
http://obata.wilderness.net/ Chiura Obata link
http://www.birdsnest.com/wyeth.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoQNj2tlZhg  the Buena Vista Social Club

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UmKVylIzmOE Damien Rice's song Volcano

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iip-1p3XYFU John Fahey tribute

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GT0QFM78fpo Alison Krauss

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CaohkHuHgXU&mode=related&search=  Mountains and Mountains of Things….