Sheepish Leonhardt - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I am nerdalicious.

I am starting to think Albert Einstein had greater insights into the reality of God than he even knew. "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."... "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."... "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

Some generally irrelevant facts about me include:
I am currently training for a marathon because my friend Jeremy told me to.

I don't enjoy temper tantrums.

It cracks me up when people say something like "I want to meet people who are real and not fake and superficial."

I also have random cravings for falafels.

My Interests

I like wine. A lot.

I enjoy reading. A lot. religion, classics, philosophy, and some really interesting fiction. I like to talk about that stuff with people.

I like running, weightlifting, kickboxing, my dogs (not kickboxing my dogs), cowgirls and cowboys and horsies, cooking, eating, bla bla bla. I guess I just really like to laugh with people, too.

I REALLY like painting.

I have a special affinity for my husband, Douggie Fresh.

Pisgah National Forest and Brevard, North Carolina are my favorite places ever.

I like Merkley??? photography.

I'd like to meet:

Paolo Coehlo, Marilyn Monroe, Mother Theresa, Greg Mortenson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sadie and Bessie Delaney, Frida Kahlo, Albert Einstein, Ben Stein, Thomas Merton, Paul the Apostle, Mike Meyers, Johnny Cash, Jack Black. More cynical Christians. People who are funny, or wise. Old classmates, too.

Music:

SUPERDRAG!
As Tall As Lions
Nada Surf
Iron & Wine
Ani Difranco
Sufjan Stevens
Elliott Smith
Portishead
Anne Heaton
Massive Attack
Sneaker Pimps
Morcheeba
Ellis
Smashing Pumpkins
Laura Veirs
Sia
Copeland
DJ Vadim
Coldplay
Death Cab for Cutie
Feist
Ash
The Dandy Warhols
Emiliana Torrini

Outkast
Citizen Cope
OJOS DE BRUJO!
Radiohead
Postal Service
Tori Amos
Vivaldi
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Paultronics
Jars of Clay
David Crowder Band
Maria Taylor
ROGUE WAVE!
Weezer
Jimmy Eat World
Wanda Jackson
I also really like gypsy jazz type stuff.

Movies:

HOT FUZZ!!!
DONNIE DARKO!
Chocolat
Fight Club
The Constant Gardener
Big Lebowski
Office Space
Great Expectations
Amelie
Stealing Beauty
Wayne's World
Gladiator
Billy Madison
The Libertine (with Depp)
Sin City
The Royal Tenenbaums
Napoleon Dynamite
The Cell

Television:

South Park, Heroes, Scrubs, That 70s Show

Books:

The Alchemist, Eleven Minutes, and By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, by Paolo Coehlo
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Modern Times
Mapping Postmodernism by Greer
Love in the Time of Cholera, and One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer
Searching for God Knows What, and Blue Like Jazz, by Donald Miller
Harry Potter series
CS Lewis
JRR Tolkien
Brennan Manning
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Pride and Prejudice
Sabriel series
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Anne Lamott
Stephen King (that guy gets it)
I don't know- I read a whole helluva lot.

School girls in Hushe village, Pakistan, photo courtesy of Greg Mortenson. Read "Three Cups of Tea". It's amazing.

Heroes:

He who redeemed me from death and gave me life: Jesus the Christ. That's serious shite, you know?

My cousin Anna, who has taught me so much about the most important things in life.

And my little brother.

Doug's Grandpa was a poor streetfighter and almost killed a man once, so he stopped fighting. Then he convinced a beautiful woman who was engaged to some rich dude to marry him instead. Now that's some mad skills. Damn straight.

Tessa, with the large needle in her spine and such.

My Blog

More recovery for my bitches.

Today's recovery "thought of the day" is an idea that I REALLY like, and has helped me a lot. This is a point I try to explain to people (I often feel the people I tell this to completely disrega...
Posted by Sheepish Leonhardt on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:44:00 PST

It's easier to share this way, apparently.

I shared this with some friends last week, and I figured it was no secret. At first I only posted the second part, but decided to add the first part as well. I will post things related to ...
Posted by Sheepish Leonhardt on Mon, 21 May 2007 12:12:00 PST

Recovery shifting my paradigm once again...

My Hazelden thought of the day was most interesting-- thought I would share. Peath out. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.- Abraham MaslowWhen w...
Posted by Sheepish Leonhardt on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:56:00 PST

You Had Time

I am just sitting here doing my homework, and listening to some playlist that I made over a year ago. I had put a couple of Ani Difranco songs on there from her Out of Range albu...
Posted by Sheepish Leonhardt on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:03:00 PST

The goddess movement... or what every human longs for

The other day Doug asked me what I thought of "this goddess movement thing". I had no idea what he was talking about. I could have guessed it was some feminist thing, but that doesn't real...
Posted by Sheepish Leonhardt on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:50:00 PST

Life Anthem

My life anthem happens to be a song about suicide. It's about death, giving up, jumping, and not caring if you don't survive the fall. Being alive in Christ is embracing death to self. Thi...
Posted by Sheepish Leonhardt on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:44:00 PST

Wanting to give someone a black eye... The White Rapper

Sarah2- please post the white rapper in this blog. Every time I opened myspace, the video would start, and I almost stabbed someone from anger... Lovies!
Posted by Sheepish Leonhardt on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:42:00 PST

Give me money... please?

I am currently running this marathon, and up until last night, it was for no apparent reason. I had decided to run solely because a friend I trust told me to. But now I have a REAL REASON,...
Posted by Sheepish Leonhardt on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:22:00 PST

Kind of amazing to me.

An article in National Geographic several years ago provided an interesting picture of God's wings.After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park, the forest rangers began their trek up a mountain t...
Posted by Sheepish Leonhardt on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:23:00 PST

I stole this- and it was worth it

When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.There is no theory of ev...
Posted by Sheepish Leonhardt on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:28:00 PST