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kathleen

cozy patchwork

About Me

what the fuck do i know?i'm trying to learn how to say "yes" more often, to breathe and open up.

My Interests

baking, gardening, subversive literature, stencils, puppets, samosas, thrift shopping, knee socks, banjos, overalls, feminism(is for everybody), knitting, compost, backyard chickens, making out, david lynch, sleeping more than 3 hours at a clip, clogs, sustainable living, sea shanties, kicking ass, flossing, raising confident children, zero-tolerance for bullshit, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

I'd like to meet:

weirdos. beardos. farmers. cheesemongers. stinky garlic hairy armpits. dirty fingernails from honest work, not nose-pickery. people with mirrors to amplify light not ego. random people i associated with in other lifetimes.

Music:

hitchhike to rhome, exclusively.

Movies:

the big lebowski. pooty tang. we jam econo. the reflecting skin.

Television:

i think i like LOST, or else i think it sucks, i haven't decided yet. other than that, i've got the dvd box sets of freaks & geeks and greg the bunny, a played out vhs twin peaks box set, and fond memories of the magic garden.

Books:

foxfire books, geek love, wasp factory, a people's history of the united states, handmaid's tale, the grass harp, omnivore's dilemma,the sexual politics of meat, pippi longstocking, the culture of make believe, this wheel's on fire.zines, gardening books, vegan cookbooks, gorgeous design books, food labels, knitting patterns. the laura ingalls wilder canon. elsa beskow. books about pirates, trucks, fairies and gnomes. sunny, windy, snowy & chinook.

Heroes:

harry smith & alan lomax. kathleen brennan & tom waits. pete seeger & woody guthrie. charles & ray eames. rick rubin. howard zinn. david lynch. don van vliet. mr frank zappa. bobby zimmerman. lynda barry. dame darcy. liz mcgrath. susie ibarra. tara mcpherson. jon langford.

My Blog

11:14am, sunday august 27

i woke with a start sunday morning--contractions. it was just starting to get light out, and as i lay in bed, bookended by sadie on the outside and mike and mingus on the inside, i was unable to move...
Posted by kathleen on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:04:00 PST

36/1

i am officially more pregnant than i've ever been. i feel pretty good, tired and a little achey, but considering the heat, chasing after two kids all day, maintaining a household and trying to garden ...
Posted by kathleen on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:29:00 PST

turn, turn, turn

the baby is breech. i am focusing so much energy on turning it, getting he or she into position for birth--chiropractic, chinese herbology, accupuncture, reiki, visualization, exercises--it's exhausti...
Posted by kathleen on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 08:46:00 PST

ode to bruce springsteen

i'm a springsteen girl, and not just a cool, nebraska-liking, irony-soaked hipster springsteen fan, i like it all. tunnel of love? sure? born in the usa? brings tears to my eyes. driving around as a n...
Posted by kathleen on Thu, 04 May 2006 05:51:00 PST

sleep

last night, i had some mild contractions after dinner, after overdoing it in the garden again, and went to lie down while mike got the kids ready for bed. i fell asleep around eight, and after michael...
Posted by kathleen on Tue, 02 May 2006 05:22:00 PST

one year, plus

yesterday, my friend kim and i took our collective four children(she has two more who didn't come) to a visit with a friend of hers at her suburban homestead and to collect some compost, hay, eggs and...
Posted by kathleen on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:09:00 PST

princess

sadie turned four yesterday, and it was an explosion of tulle and silk. for the first two and a half to three years of her life, i worried that her spending so much time with me would influence her pe...
Posted by kathleen on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:19:00 PST

february 12

we got over a foot of snow last night into this morning. it was like magic. the kids slept in until almost 7:30, when sadie came snuggling into our bed, followed a few minutes later by mingus, who dec...
Posted by kathleen on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 01:21:00 PST

"we've got all of our friends beat"

yesterday, while driving home from the heath food store, our minivan stocked with organic produce and whole grain goodness tucked into reusable cloth grocery sacks, mike remarked to me that "we've tot...
Posted by kathleen on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 02:09:00 PST