The Love of My Life, my son, Jude
poetry, writing, reading, my son, my family, wine, grammar, independent films, foreign films, emotions, storms, cats, words, books, dictionaries, art, photography, philosophy, different cultures, laughing, road trips (as long as I dont have to drive too much), stars, sleeping late on Sunday mornings, blankets, fall, leaves, vegetarian sushi (I miss sushi with you Christine!), naps, candles, the cello (and one day I will be able to play one), red bicycles, wildflowers, getting lost in the library, small crowded bookstores, my beautifully talented and creative friends, beauty, hugs, spirituality, passionate people, intimacy .....and.... I am now trying to learn German and Russian :)
I can be alone
I know how to be alone.
There is a tacit understanding
between my pencils
and the trees outside;
between the rain
and my luminous hair.
The tea is boiling:
my golden zone,
my pure burning amber
I can be alone,
I know how to be alone.
By tea-light
I write.
~Nina Cassian
I'd like to meet:
artists, writers, free thinkers, spiritualists, creators, expressionists: those that practice art in whatever form seeking to depict the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in the human heart, bringing humanity in touch with the depth of their emotion.
Don't disappear. . . . Give me your palm.
I am written on it--this I believe.
What makes one's last love terrible
is that it is not love, but fear of loss.
~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Photo by PETAR KÃœRSCHNER PHOTOGRAPHY
Music:
A Constant Ache
Billy Brighton
Bliss Junkie
The Cure, Beth Orton, The Magnetic Fields, Johnny Cash, Frou Frou, Flunk, Olive, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Cranes, Chris Isaak, Siouxie and the Banshees, Cat Power, Katie Melua, Kate Rusby, Fiona Apple, Judy Collins, Imogen Heap, Skye, Liz Phair, Morcheeba, Portishead, Norah Jones, Regina Spektor, David Gray, David Mead, Johnny Lang, Sia, Sara Harmer, Sarah MacLauchlan, Sneaker Pimps, Massive Attack, Aphex Twin, Goldfrapp, The Sundays, Tori Amos, Trentemoeller, Alison Krauss, Julee Cruise, Blonde Redhead, Kidney Thieves, Benny Benassi, Daft Punk, Norah Jones, Radiohead, Mazzy Star, Otis Redding, Ani DiFranco, Damien Rice, Psapp, Martina Bird-Topley, Lucinda Williams, David Bowie, Eartha Kitt, Arcade Fire, Air, Anna Ternheim
Husky Rescue
Feist
Movies:
The Dreamers
Love Song for Bobby Long
Television:
Six Feet Under, Grey's Anatomy, Sex and the City, Dirty Sexy Money
Books:
poet,Tatevik Khurshudyan
it's typical for me
to drink my loneliness, as if a cup of natural juice,
at breakfast time,
and, at the same time,
to think about all "joujou"s
with a fake smile.
~Special Breakfast
poet,April Michelle
I have never loved,
as a woman should love.
I have always been wait-wait-waiting,
never chasing the train,
only an empty pot to his sleek spoon.
~The Departed
poet, Amanda Joy
Such a weight,
these empty arms.
Your anaemic hands
like limp birds.
Women dressed like white moths
flap in and out saying nothing.
The insidious sweetness
of those flowers
near your bed.
~the quiet room
poet,Steffen Horstmann
Your pen dipped in inkwells
Where censored words sought refuge
& the pages of your poems rose from a table
Became a white flock of gulls
You heard a chorus of voices
Reciting the ledger of the disappeared
& ghosts emerged from the glass coffins
Of mirrors
Acquired their former bodies
& the graves that climbed the hills were gone
Replaced by trees
~After Anna Akhmatova
Anais Nin, Flannery O’Connor, Marquis de Sade, Wally Lamb, Milan Kundera, Anton Chekov, Kate Chopin, John Irving, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Oscar Wilde, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Violet Leduc, Steinbeck, Dostoevsky
Poetry by: Olga Berggolts, Anna Akhmatova, Natalya Gorbanyevskaya, Nina Cassian, Pablo Neruda, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bella Akhmadulina, Nichita Stanescu, Marina Tsvetaeva, Yevgeny Yevteshenko, Erich Fried, E.E. Cummings, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Emily Dickinson, Mina Loy, April Michelle, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Purnima, Forugh Farrohzad, Erica Jong
Heroes:
Anna Akhmatova
June Carter and Johnny Cash
Anais Nin
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Pablo Neruda
