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melanie.

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About Me

i love: design. alphabetizing. tea. rhetoric. literature. coffee. sushi. knitted scarves. wood burning stoves. sandalwood. gerber daisies. morning dew. exposed brick walls. oil on canvas. linen dresses. sand castles. sheer curtains. old leather. libraries. lower case. pottery. alphabet soup. wednesdays. comfortable silence. waterfalls. flintstone vitamins. chuck taylors. cocoa. legos. the harmonica. empty parking lots. sunrises. mittens. cold mornings. hot showers. red maples. torn levis. creeking floorboards. tire swings. canoes. stained glass. thrift stores. drift wood. red wine. apple cider. dirt roads. open fields. picnics. church bells.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

dylan.

Music:

2% milk. andrew bird. air. arcade fire. beck. belle and sebastian. ben harper. beth orton. bjork. bob dylan. calexico. cat power. cat stevens. clem snide. coldplay. cowboy junkies. cream. dar williams. devendra banhart. ester drang. fiona apple. greg brown. hollertronix. iron & wine. jeff buckley. joanna newsom. johnny cash. joseph arthur. keren ann. loretta lynn. m.ward. mogwai. mum. nada surf. nate campany. nick catchdubs. over the rhine. pedro the lion. pete yorn. radiohead. rilo kiley. sigur ros. sondre lerche. spiritualized. stars. sufjan stevens. syd barrett. teitur. the beatles. the cinematic underground. the cure. the magic numbers. the weakerthans. the who. tom waits. u2. wilco. woody guthrie.

Movies:

battle royale. benny & joon. best in show. buffalo '66. edward scissorhands. empire records. goonies. greasy lake. honey i shrunk the kids. newsies. office space. royal tennenbaums. shawshank redemption. spaceballs. the sandlot.

Television:

i find television very educational. every time someone turns it on i go into another room and read a book. _groucho marx

Books:

anything c.s. lewis has ever written.antoine de saint exupery: the little prince.john stone: the monster at the end of the book.j.r.r. tolkien: the silmarilion.sheldon vanauken: a severe mercy.f. scott fitzgerald: the great gatsby.

Heroes:

jesus.

My Blog

contemplative discourse on the subject of me

i have found myself in a place i have never been before. i am somewhere on the way to something unsure of how to get there and uncertain of when i'll arrive. i am anxious to embrace my future and relu...
Posted by melanie. on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 05:52:00 PST

i want to know...

why my barista draws a smiley face on my lattebut never smiles. how Mike ignores every homeless person he passesbut meets me for church every Sunday. why the Boston Globe guy on Dartmouth and Appleton...
Posted by melanie. on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 07:39:00 PST

doubts

our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. _shakespeare
Posted by melanie. on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:33:00 PST

donne

When senses, which thy soldiers are, We arm against thee, and they fight for sin, When want, sent but to tame, doth war, And work despair abreach to enter in, When plenty, God's image and seal, M...
Posted by melanie. on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:04:00 PST