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Blanca

.. that which exists actually and mentally is greater than that which exists only mentally .. anselm

About Me

.. .. .. my life goal is to wake up one morning and find myself in a favorite movie .. .. ..

My Interests

.. .. .. visual and performing arts .. traveling .. languages .. books .. tea .. sparkly pens .. knights in shining armor .. shiny things in general .. shiny happy people (see?) .. 5-euro skirts from that really fun shop near st eustache ..

I'd like to meet:

.. .. .. madeleine l'engle .. amélie .. blaise pascal .. mma precious ramotswe .. perpetua .. .. jules bastien-lepage ..
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Music:

.. .. .. u2 .. the autumns .. the sundays .. the innocence mission .. yann tiersen .. the frames .. the clientele .. iona .. seven nations .. young dubliners .. the killdares .. mary jane lamond .. vince guaraldi .. oliver kraus .. django reinhardt .. oren lavie .. over the rhine .. kyo .. corneille .. paris combo .. charles aznavour .. eluvium .. josh groban .. nigel kennedy .. .. ..

Movies:

.. .. .. elizabeth gaskell's north and south .. waking ned devine .. strictly ballroom .. in america .. an american in paris .. mr. bean's vacation .. napoleon dynamite .. mr. smith goes to washington .. phantom of the opera .. pride & prejudice .. funny face .. goodbye lenin .. millions .. dear frankie ..

Television:

.. .. .. monarch of the glen .. the red green show .. arrested development .. keeping up appearances .. mr. bean .. northern exposure

Books:

.. .. .. walking on water: reflections on faith and art (and anything else by madeleine l'engle) .. anything by alexander mccall smith .. pensées (blaise pascal) .. the kite runner (khaled hosseini) .. pride and prejudice (jane austen) .. anything by bill bryson .. traveling mercies (anne lamotte) .. walk on: the spiritual journey of u2 (steve stockman) ..

Heroes:

.. .. .. people who do more than they are capable of doing ..

My Blog

Being away

My aunt died this week. It was hard being across the ocean, knowing I couldn't go home. I wanted to see my family ... to sit in a room with them amidst the silence and slowly shifting light. I sent of...
Posted by Blanca on Sun, 27 May 2007 05:09:00 PST

My box

I find myself searching for "otherness" more often these days. I don't know why. Perhaps the intenseness of language study--the endless hours of listening, reading and speaking this strange tongue--co...
Posted by Blanca on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:31:00 PST

Superbowl -- I mean Super Bowl

Today I was wondering who's playing in the superbowl. I did a search on Google for "superbowl 2007" and it returned, "did you mean: super bowl 2007?" (I think it SHOULD be one word). Anyway, I clicked...
Posted by Blanca on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:07:00 PST

Happy New Year! Sort of ..

Well, since New Year's Day is just another day to me, I thought I would put up a recycled blog I did on my old blogsite, that has nothing to do with the new year, or goals, or anything serious. So, he...
Posted by Blanca on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:08:00 PST

Goodbye, again ..

A deep sorrow runs through the core of my being tonight .. a sorrow I've become familiar with, but will never embrace. It's snowing inside of me. Soft, white flakes are drifting into deceptively, harm...
Posted by Blanca on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:30:00 PST

Ou est la poste?

I tried to mail a letter the other day. I got into the cab and said to the driver, "The post office, please." Of course, my language skills still being rudimentary, I may have said, "I turned the sky ...
Posted by Blanca on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:59:00 PST

Life in a book ...

France has become but a memory. And so, life begins in Northern Africa. How does it feel? Hmm ... ... Imagine that you are a sentence on a page in a book. Now imagine being cut out of the page wher...
Posted by Blanca on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:47:00 PST

Disturbingly unfamiliar

Life here is ... wow. Other, in every way. Because I have to relate to the world in a million, tiny new ways, there's a constant undercurrent of stress. The me I know is discombobulated. She wants to ...
Posted by Blanca on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:56:00 PST