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Wiley Woman

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About Me


I make stuff...
check out my wares at Laura Wiley Designs!

My Interests

laughing as much as I can possibly get away with
the creative process
inspiration
utility
novelty
love love love
frolicking hard
being upside down
fashion design
the Divine Spoon
stupid human tricks
evoluting
empowering myself and those around me
meeting and cavorting with humble free bravehearted warriors of love & light

I'd like to meet:

Jesus.
Michael Jackson.
I'm very curious about these two.

Music:

Kinnie Starr, Mike Milosh, Missy Elliott, The Streets, Leela James, Nitin Sawhney, Esthero, Ani DiFranco, Rufus Wainwright, Tracy Chapman, Bent, Bjork, Alexkid, Brazilian Girls, Cassandra Wilson, Feist, Everything But The Girl, Jill Scott, M.I.A., Mos Def, Nick Drake, Nizlopi, Nora Jones, Karsh Kale, Panjabi MC, Prince, Sade, Zero 7.... and so much more... honest, dynamic music that makes me smile, sigh or shake my ass...

Movies:

Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, City of Lost Children, Caberet, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Adaptation, Stealing Beauty, Twin Falls, anything with Jack Black, Benny & Joon, Better Off Dead, Mirrormask

Television:

Six Feet Under... may it rest in peace.

Books:

Lolita by Nabakov, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Grace and Grit by Ken Wilbur, Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, the Journal of Molly Dorsey Sanford

Heroes:

Dolly Parton
...and the two nutjobs in this HILARIOUS video...

My Blog

she Is

She is wildly vitalShe plummets and giggles into her lifeMelodiously flinging her fancies this way and thatWishing and whistling and swishing her skirts about her slender steady feet that gracefully t...
Posted by Wiley Woman on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:12:00 PST

The Player

The sure shots The near missesThe gamblesThe chancesShe places her betsEngages in the dancesPositions herself in flexible stancesScans What Is with a few steady glancesDucks down and calculates some a...
Posted by Wiley Woman on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:11:00 PST

all of it

A pale quiet twinkling harkens the dawn of a new nightDusky rippled echoes of the sunset swathe the sky as I descend into the moist thick valley toward homeI inhale the chorus of the jungle The ripen...
Posted by Wiley Woman on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:08:00 PST

ah the itchy impetus of love

1000 crushes a daythe wind blows my thoughts from this one to thatmy heart is no longer a fox, but a groundhog peering out to herald a new season of blossomingmy mind draws pictures of a whisper kisse...
Posted by Wiley Woman on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:21:00 PST

still becoming

I am unfolding into myselfBranching boundlessly into my skinMy heart keeps its steady beatAs I tune myself to my purposeAnd hum a new and familiar song
Posted by Wiley Woman on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:06:00 PST

Things That Feel Very True Today:

I am dropping more deeply into myself.Who I am is no longer a question I seek answers for from othersNo one else in privy to the map in my soul...I am responsible for consulting the invisible pulsing ...
Posted by Wiley Woman on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:50:00 PST