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Iris

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About Me

If there one day would be a novel published about me it would be a hardback in a deep green color with wine-red print. The pages would be nice to touch and the storyline would be thoughtful, a little bit sad but at the same time hopeful.

My Interests

Music, writing, painting, reading, cooking and running. (Not necessarily in that order.)

I'd like to meet:

The women I admire and want to listen to and learn from...

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Music:

Music for me is as necessary as food and oxygen. Some of the artist that constantly occupy my mp3 is: Melissa Etheridge, Mary Gauthier, Diana Jones, kd lang,Diana Krall Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan, Jewel and some other amazing women.

Movies:

A number of independent ones, movies that really tells a story about real people and real emotion.

Television:

Documentaries and drama series with some dept.

Books:

Poetry in all shapes and sizes and the works by: Jeanette Winterson Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Bodil Malmsten and a few others.

Heroes:

Women who pursue their dreams and have the courage to take the roads less travelled.

My Blog

"I will never leave, I’m a dream, that answers to you"

Although you haven't told me, although you haven't let me in. I think I know what you're thinking. I think I know how you feel. Your eyes wispher  the story, the story that your mouth can't ...
Posted by Iris on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:42:00 PST

"fate must have a reason"

It's the waiting part that's strange. Waiting for an answer. Waiting and not being able to influence the decision. That's the strange part. I often wonder how people do it. How do others handle t...
Posted by Iris on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:41:00 PST

time after time

Time passes by outside my window, and I stand here wondering where all the seconds, minutes, hours and days go at the same time as I'm wishing that time in some aspects would just pass. Isn't strange....
Posted by Iris on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:45:00 PST

"Youre so much more than good enough"

Sometimes I contemplate over the choices I've made. Do I like them? Do I feel satisfied with them? Can I forgive them? Do I like who I become? Then when I get awfully close to making a ...
Posted by Iris on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:09:00 PST

it’s just wrong

A few days have passed since the funeral of my dear friend. I don't think I ever have experienced such a strange moment. I was sitting there in church with a voice in my head saying over and over agai...
Posted by Iris on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:00:00 PST

"lessons of patience"

Your kindness still fills me with warmth. I just have to close my eyes for a second and that sweet precious moment in time appear in my mind. I often wonder how I could repay the favour. I want to fin...
Posted by Iris on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:01:00 PST

"stay here in this moment "

 I was walking down my road, just minding my own business. Didn't really feel the urge to meet anyone. And still, there you were crossing my path.It got me thinking about purpose. Was there a pur...
Posted by Iris on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:58:00 PST

"just you and me, on this island of hope"

As I enter, my eyes scan the room. So many unfamiliar faces. So many greetings that are being exchanged. I stand there in the doorway. I see how a lady looks at me and I know she's wondering if we met...
Posted by Iris on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:24:00 PST

"All we can really do"

It's friday afternoon and the wind is blowing thru the bare trees. I'm looking out the window with a mind filled to it's limit with thoughts. A dear friend once told me that the best way to relieve on...
Posted by Iris on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:00:00 PST

Ode to a friend

I wanna sing an ode to my dear dear friend. But since I got the news yesterday that she forever left this world. My mind is blank and my mouth is mute. The sun managed to force it's way thru the cloud...
Posted by Iris on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:54:00 PST