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Shauna

It is when we are unnamed through tragedy that we are given the ground to search and dig until we fi

About Me



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My Interests

children, music, mountains, coffee, dancing, poetry, people, sunsets, art, travel, culture, swimming, faces, baked goods, flowers, chai tea, books, history, trees, rain, Italian food, drama, reflection, philosophy, snow, fall, candles, memories, dreams, life, and oh so much more.

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Music:

U2, Sarah McLachlan, Tracy Chapman, James Blunt, Snow Patrol, Death Cab, The Fray, Goo Goo Dolls, Damien Rice, Cold Play, Howie Day, Sara Groves, Old School Cat Stevens, K.T. Tunstall, John Mayer, Jars of Clay, Derek Webb, Switchfoot, and Norah Jones...to name a few.

Movies:

Lord of the Rings, Eternal Sunshine, I Heart Huckabees, Garden State, Les Miserables, Hotel Rwanda, Crash, Pride & Prejudice, Babel and on the lighter side - How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Music & Lyrics and the all time classic - Dirty Dancing.

Television:

I'm still a LOST fan...but they better explain what the heck is going on or I'm going to give up! House and Brothers and Sisters are my new favorites!

Books:

Fiction: The Time Traveler's Wife, Pride and Prejudice, Redeeming Love, The Secret Life of Bees, The Mermaid Chair, The Chosen, The Red Tent. Non Fiction: Velvet Elvis, Colossians Remixed, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, Upside Down Kingdom, Discipleship, Seeking Peace, and Provocations, The Inner Voice of Love, Reaching Out, Life of the Beloved (and pretty much anything else written by Henri Nouwen - he is definitely my favorite writer).

Heroes:

Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day, Elisabeth Elliot and Beatrice Omese.

My Blog

Thoughts from Cali - Part 3 (Finally)

I've struggled quite a bit with this third and final segment to my mega (and long-over-due) blog.  I've struggled with how to word some of the things I'm feeling - not because I don't have a good...
Posted by Shauna on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:04:00 PST

Thoughts from Cali - Part 2

On to part two of this mega-blog:  addressing the lie that I can never change.       Has anyone else noticed how there seems to be a rehab for every bad behavior imaginea...
Posted by Shauna on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 10:51:00 PST

Thoughts from Cali - Part 1

    It's been quite awhile since I felt compelled to express myself in writing  so I thought I'd take advantage of this surprising urge to do just that.  I don't really know where...
Posted by Shauna on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 10:45:00 PST

Beauty, Where Art Thou?

It's been a very difficult, and at times beautiful, month for me on a very personal level.  It began with news of two different school shootings in the U.S.  When I first came across the sto...
Posted by Shauna on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:00:00 PST

Uganda Update

Hello Everyone! It's been quite awhile since I sent out my last group update, so I figured it was time to get a little something out. It is hard to believe that we've been here almost three months no...
Posted by Shauna on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:19:00 PST

Sleep Deprived

"When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on...
Posted by Shauna on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:48:00 PST

split between two worlds

Things I miss back home: Panera, Friday Nights at the Gauthier Backyard, Scrap-Mania, Krista Law's laugh, the changing of seasons (could someone please send me a photo of an Aspen Tree changing colors...
Posted by Shauna on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:02:00 PST

Thoughts on love and suffering

As I watched the most wretched of women walk past me I wondered about this thing called love.  They are sick, their bodies are deteriorating cell by cell as AIDS takes over.  Some have less ...
Posted by Shauna on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:42:00 PST

Thoughts on Security

I have had some time to just think about a few things over the past couple of weeks as we have attempted to adjust to life in Africa.  Considering we are out here with our three precious daughter...
Posted by Shauna on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:37:00 PST

Uganda - Week 1

Well...we've been here for a week and we really don't have a whole lot to update you on.  Brian interviewed for the job last Friday and we found on on Monday that he will be teaching Year 4 (whic...
Posted by Shauna on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:17:00 PST