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Brook

Birth by Fire

About Me

I am a blessed child. My path has been gorgeous and each pain and each triumph has brought me gifts.
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My Interests

Theatre, Shakespeare, Photography, Travel, Passion, Documentaries, Storms, Italy, New Orleans, Ghost Stories, Spiritual Enlightenment, Higher Education, John O'Donohue's writing, IPA, Scriptwriting, Acting, Modern and East Indian Dance, Trance Dance, Home Grown Vegetables, Herb Gardens, Tree Houses, Cooking, Nature, Mountains, Wilderness, 1920s-1940s, Truth, Camping, Master Artists, Kindness, Wisteria, Historic Towns, Music, Freedom, Adventure, Teaching, Learning, Film, Family, Bliss

I'd like to meet:

John O'Donohue, Christ, Tom Waits, Budda, Mother Theresa, Shakespeare, Sting, Pablo Neruda, Bono, my children (if I'm going to have any), John Lennon, Plato, Janis Joplin, Abe Lincoln, Cleopatra, My Future Husband, Tennessee Williams, Pandora, Angelina Jolie, Don Miguel Ruiz, and The Creator of the Universe.

Music:

Vivaldi, Etta James, David Bowie, Nina Simone, Tom Waits, Janis Joplin, Taj Mahal, CSNY, Dead Can Dance, Indigo Girls, PJ Harvey, Blind Boys of ALabama, The Platters, Sting, Prince, U2, Bach, Willie Nelson, Zydeco, Bluegrass, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, swing, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Dresdon Dolls, Grateful Dead, Bob Marley, Etta James, Patty Loveless, Alison Krauss, Dave Matthews, Prince, Simon & Garfunkel, Cold Play, Melissa Etheridge, Pixies, Siouxsie, Jane's Addiction, John Lennon, Front 242, DM, Guns N Roses, Tchaikovsky, Patsy Cline, Beethoven, Jethro Tull, Ella Fitzgerald, B-Tribe, Elvis, Coltrane, ELO, This Mortal Coil, Donkey, (Locals: Yvonne and Logan Belle, Joseph Martens, Jesse Wolfe, Four Steps Closer, Junkie Rush)

Movies:

Born Into Brothels, All That Jazz, Marat/Sade, Bladerunner, What The Bleep Do We Know, Waking Life, True Romance, Jaws, Zepherelli's Romeo and Juliet, Stand By Me, Secretary, Labyrtinth, Sherman's March, The Hunger, Okie Noodling, The Shining, Being Julia, The Good Old Naughty Days, Whale Rider, The Dark Crystal, Reservoir Dogs, The Never Ending Story, Young Frankenstein, The Thing, 28 Days Later, Cool Hand Luke, Harold & Maude, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Princess Bride

Television:

Television is the enemy.Well, except for The Daily Show...And The CBS Sunday Morning Show.

Books:

The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Anam Cara, Beauty, Illusions, All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, Eternal Echoes, Notebooks, Band of Brothers, BadCats, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Joy of Cooking, The First Folio...I just get all overwhelmed when I try to list all the books I love. I can't do it. I LOVE books!

Heroes:

The Creator of The Universe, my folks, my love, Mother Theresa, creative people, people who love all over the place, children, teachers, whoever our next good president is going to be.

My Blog

Hellllppp!

I have a friend going for an operation and she'll be in for a few days, alone in a hospital room... I'm putting together a care package for her and would like to print up a file of internet jokes/stor...
Posted by Brook on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:15:00 PST

Choose differently today

"It is always your next move." -- Napoleon Hill The great benefit of heightened awareness is that we have more choice in how we live our lives. At any moment, we can purposefully choose a new experien...
Posted by Brook on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:02:00 PST

Photos

THANK you Chris Jenkins, for your excellent photography skills...check out the Wit folder to see some of the images...
Posted by Brook on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:12:00 PST

Pup-cat Birthday!

I am pleased and excited to announce that it is now less than one hour away from the illustrious Pup-cat's much anticipated Birthday-Eve! Pup is soon to be a spritely young nine years old. We celebrat...
Posted by Brook on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:20:00 PST

Unplanned printing in the Commercial Dispatch

This was printed in this Saturday's paper. Sort-of sums it all up... The things that make life worth livingEditor's note: The following is an edited version of an e-mail sent to The Dispatch not inten...
Posted by Brook on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:55:00 PST

WIT!

Last Night we opened our production of "Wit." PLEASEohpleaseohpleaseohPLEASE come and see what these kids have accomplished! Tonight and tomorrow night we open house at 7pm and the show starts at 7:30...
Posted by Brook on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:06:00 PST

GORGEOUS

There just aren't WORDS to express how honored, stilled, blessed and proud I am for the grace, honesty and hard work of my students on our upcoming production of "Wit." I have never been so move...
Posted by Brook on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:56:00 PST

Homecoming...

I've come up for air... Breathing again, for the moment. Just a day or two of rest...a retreat to the home of my beloved folks. Gosh but I LOVE reunions, celebration, family, roots and this season in ...
Posted by Brook on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:03:00 PST

Happy Birthday, America!

It has been quite a while since I wasn't with my dear friends at Trudy Bruner's lake house on the 4th of July. My heart is just a tad sad not to be on that big pontoon with those gorgeous folks i...
Posted by Brook on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:42:00 PST

Tennessee Williams Project

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your official invitation to attend a FREE night of entertainment at the Tennessee Williams Home and Welcome center at 300 Main street, Columbus, Mississippi. On July the ...
Posted by Brook on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:45:00 PST