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Portia

"Sic Luceat Lux" (Thus, let the light shine.)

About Me

"So, I sat down to write at my desk in the dim light of the street lamp outside my window. Since I was a child I have written to understand myself and the world, to find the stories that show me the meaning I can make of my life. "As the words flowed I recognized a voice that has always been there within me: the voice that passionately seeks life's purpose; the voice of the tired heart that longs for real intimacy and deep rest; the voice that asks me to be fully present with it all, the pain and the joy, the beauty and the sorrow, the inner silence and the noise of the world." -Oriah Mountain Dreamer, OPENING THE INVITATION

My Interests


TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Portia St. Luke
Birthday: 10-22
Birthplace: Cleveland
Current Location: Upstate, NY
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Chocolate Brown
Height: 6'1'
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: UK (Anglo-Scotts-Irish)
The Shoes You Wore Today: Black leather boots
Your Weakness: Cheeeeeese.
Your Fears: Unloved or unlovable
Your Perfect Pizza: Just cheese. (I'm a purist!)
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Artistic career takes off and I can quit the day job!
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: Emoticons. Yes, any.
Thoughts First Waking Up: Gratitude for the man sleeping next to me.
Your Best Physical Feature: Depends who you ask.
Your Bedtime: 11 pm - Midnight
Your Most Missed Memory: The Pennsic Swimming Hole. (*~purrrrrrrr~*)
Pepsi or Coke: Homemade Iced Tea! Corn Syrup is the DEVIL!!!
MacDonalds or Burger King: Dear, Sweet Goddess! How about Subway?
Single or Group Dates: That depends on what we're doing (and who'se holding the camera)
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: HOME MADE!! (Jee-zow!)
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: TEA!!!
Do you Smoke: Not anymore.
Do you Sing: Yes, deep alto, and I love the blues.
Do you Shower Daily: Baths are more decadent... but yes.
Have you Been in Love: Every day.
Do you want to go to College: Been there, got the paper to prove it.
Do you want to get Married: Been there, got the paper to prove it.
Do you belive in yourself:
Do you get Motion Sickness: All the time.
Do you think you are Attractive: Well, the hubby thinks I am, and he's the only one who counts.
Are you a Health Freak: Not compared to some.
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes.
Do you like Thunderstorms: LOVE thunderstorms. Dance in them whenever possible.
Do you play an Instrument: I drum in a drum circle. (It's my phone to God.)
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes. (I was the minister for a wedding.)
In the past month have you Smoked: Nope. Gave that up.
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Legally, got the paper to prove it.
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Does it still count if you're married??
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Nope. (Avoid it if at all possible.)
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yes... with great joy and reckless abandon!
In the past month have you been on Stage: Baby, for me, everywhere's a stage.
In the past month have you been Dumped: No.
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: In New York in February? That's called "Polar Bearing," and no.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Other than a few hearts?
Ever been Drunk: No, not once, not ever, there are no negatives, and no witnesses... So there.
Ever been called a Tease: Flirt only if you mean it.
Ever been Beaten up: In grade school, I was the fat, nerdy kid with glasses, braces, and Salvation Army clothes. What do you think?
Ever Shoplifted: Statute of limitations is up on this one. I plead the fifth.
How do you want to Die: Peacefully in my rocking chair, surrounded by my loving children, grand children, and great-grandchildren...
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: World-famous illustrator!!
What country would you most like to Visit: Itallia!!
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Greeeeeeeeeeeeen... *purrrrr*
Favourite Hair Color: I married a "Silver Fox"
Short or Long Hair: Short, but the Hubby disagrees, and I'm not winning this one.
Height: Dosn't matter, but I think a midget would be fun.
Weight: Dosn't matter... but Gi-normous people can be a LOT of fun.
Best Clothing Style: CLASSIC. Think Retro. WWI-WWII? My heart!!!
Number of Drugs I have taken: At the same time? Hopefully not enough to kill you... necro is not my thing
Number of CDs I own: Who uses CD's anumore? MP3's!!!
Number of Piercings: Number isn't as important as the reason.
Number of Tattoos: Number isn't as important as the reason.
Number of things in my Past I Regret:

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I'd like to meet:

"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing."It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive."It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain."I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it."I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, remember the limitations of being human."It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy."I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence."I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, 'Yes.'"It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children."It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back."It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away."I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments."-Oriah Mountain Dreamer "The Invitation"

Music:

blues, classical, baroque, new-age, organ music, reggae, earthy-crunchy stuff, drums, hand-drums, tribal drums, tribal, trance, 4 non blondes, concrete blonde, cybertribe, ellmore james, hedwig and the angry inch, howlin' wolf, johnny winter, juno reactor, krishna das, lacuna coil, linda perry, michael harner, muddy waters, peter murphy, pulsar bleu, tool,

Movies:

Heavy Metal, American Pop, Watership Down, Secret of NIMH, Dangerous Beauty, Dangerous Liasons, Amadeus, Nightbreed, Hellraiser (series), Elizabeth, Golden Compass, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter Series, the Secret Garden, Baraka, Kronos, and just about anything History/ Animation or Fantasy.

Television:

The Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, Torchwood, Doctor Who, the Dresden Files, Stargate Atlantis, Rome, Real Sex, Def Poetry Jam, The Universe, and just about anything history/ science documentary.

Books:

crossword puzzles, anything and everything by neil gaiman, pablo neruda, robert anton wilson, viktor frankl,

Heroes:

Artists:20th Century: Susan Seddon Boulet, Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Frank Frazetta, Gerald Brom, Michael Whelan, Gahan Wilson, Jeffrey Catherine Jones,The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: James Collinson, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, John Brett, Ford Madox Brown, Richard Burchett, Edward Burne-Jones, Charles Allston Collins, Frank Cadogan Cowper, Walter Howell Deverell, Arthur Hacker, Arthur HughesRenaissance Masters: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Leonardo DaVinci, Raffaelo Sanzio

My Blog

New Art: Winged sprite

Mixed media piece, in the classic sense of the word! Materials (in order of appearance) are graphite pencil, colored pencil, ink, watercolor, charcoal. table salt, oak leaves, and a little digit...
Posted by Portia on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:00:00 PST

New Art: Elephant Self Portrait

Watercolor on paper. By now, I've drawn most of my friends as furries, so it was about time I turned the lens back on myself....
Posted by Portia on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:03:00 PST

New Art: Fairy and Fox

Watercolor and ink on bristol. Commissioned by Xavier Fox Shandi and his beautiful lady....
Posted by Portia on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:59:00 PST

Le Roi est Mort...

Cross-posted from Una: "Many of you have probably already heard this - At 8:58 PM, EDT, September 23, 2008 Duke Morguhn Sheridan finished his last act of service, having given all he could to the wor...
Posted by Portia on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:36:00 PST

New Art: the Angry Lemur

This week, this man impressed the hell outta me by having the courage to speak the truth, regardless of the cost.For Joel, the original "Angry Lemur."(High-resolution prints of this and several other ...
Posted by Portia on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:40:00 PST

New Art: October 2008 Cover for the Talon

Yes, it's finally finished.(Have I mentioned recently that I hate doing knotwork?  Love the look of it, hate doing it.) ...
Posted by Portia on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:16:00 PST

New Art: "Snow White"

This is the image I plan to use with the October cover for THE TALON. Mixed media on paper. My reminder that not all "old ladies who wear purple with red" are friendly, benign, or have our best inte...
Posted by Portia on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:35:00 PST

Family Photos from a Summer with Mouse

Photobucket Album ...
Posted by Portia on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:38:00 PST

Pay attention: There will be a quiz later

I've been following the two national party conventions as if they were my Superbowl.  For me, this is much more important than any sporting event, any TV series or reality show.  It's even m...
Posted by Portia on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:21:00 PST

THE TALON September 2008 Cover

My thanks to the heralds who helped me figure out Her Highness' heraldry...  And to Vladimatt, for being so incredibly patient (again!) ...
Posted by Portia on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:19:00 PST