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Resa

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About Me

I am not who you think I am...Recent work... Dream Box created December '07. Inspired by a desire to inspire a friend; to remind her of her beauty. Music is Viva la Vive from Eric McFadden's Dementia release. Thanks, Eric.

My Interests

Fine art, photography, music, human nature, literature, truth/beauty... and lots of things that I don't yet know... yeah, I might be interested in new stuff...

I'd like to meet:

I would love to have a long decrypted conversation with God... (ideally while I am still around here to make some sort of sense of it).

Music:

The Vettes... my nephew's band... check out their new video "Give Them What They Want"

Movies:

Spirited Away... Howl's Moving Castle... Brazil... Wings of Desire... Paris, Texas... Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory... Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring... Saving Nemo... Portrait of Jennie... Rebecca... Black Orpheus... City of Lost Children... The Princess Bride... Like Water For Chocolate... After Life... Rivers and Tides... Blade Runner... Whole Wide World

Television:

Has a dvd player hooked up to it...

Books:

The Ground Beneath Her Feet... Rushdie~~ The Corrections...Franzen~~ The God of Small Things... Roy~~ Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell... Clarke~~ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time...Haddon~~ The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler...Klonigsburg Three Junes... Glass~~ The Secret Life of Bees... Monk~~ Demian... Hesse~~ A Prayer for Owen Meany... Irving~~ Pride and Prejudice... Austen Middlesex...Eugenides~~ Harry Potter (series)... Rowling~~ I Know This Much Is True... Lamb~~ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius... Eggers~~ The Accidental Masterpiece... Kimmelman~~ Return to Love... Williamson~~ **** Random bits by... Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, Italo Calvino, David Sadaris...~~ Everything by Mary Otis ****Poetry... Ranier Rilke, Pablo Neruda, Mary Oliver, Louise Gluck, Li-Young Lee...

Heroes:

My incredible & delightful friends... my siblings... wow... pretty great to actually know my heroes! I am so lucky... Oh, and well, Jesus did some neat stuff, too.

My Blog

Blue Blanket

The last time I saw her, she was blue. She was not sad, or lonely. She was not smiling; she did not look peaceful. Her hair was freshly washed and still damp, splayed into a golden halo on a thin p...
Posted by Resa on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:26:00 PST

Ohio

Even St Paul accused some (those hardy ones who scuffled through the dustand remained shoeless and houseless)of being backsliders when the chinking gave way in the house of Godor so they feared When ...
Posted by Resa on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:32:00 PST

Dreams

My older brother had told me that if you ever had a dream in which you died, you actually would. In some such dream as falling from a cliff, he said, you could fall and fall, but if ever you hit the ...
Posted by Resa on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:58:00 PST

Doing the right thing

Of course all of us want to do the right thing to stave off global warming. And one thing that has been suggested is replacing regular light bulbs with CFL bulbs (those ones that look like vanilla sw...
Posted by Resa on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:22:00 PST

The Thought Particulator

Sometimes she felt so connected to him that it seemed it couldn't be anything less than large, that thing that they were together. Bonded, twice the size, twice the depth. Coupled by a common Though...
Posted by Resa on Thu, 24 May 2007 03:39:00 PST

From Amargosa

I transcribed this from a documentary I saw a while back about Marta Beckett. The film is called Amargosa. I loved this bit so much that I didn't want to forget it... not sure it is an exact transcr...
Posted by Resa on Tue, 01 May 2007 02:47:00 PST

Madolyn

No one will ever see it, he said.No one needs to know.But the scars are everywhere.It is evident in her drinking,Not a drop for days, and then just one martini,Just something cool to ease the dis-ease...
Posted by Resa on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:51:00 PST

Crawl

On Tuesdays, I pray. Torrents of prayers. Tuesday's child is full of grace, and you see,I slipped screaming into this world on a Tuesday.On Monday, a sort of cable still rendered us as one,She and I...
Posted by Resa on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:33:00 PST