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About Me

. . .
part magic,
part mysticism,
sugar & sass,
litany & profanity,
complete with
red & tangly
tasty bits
. . .
.: the ethe(real) :.
I am
a monstrous and lithe energy
just barely contained
in this luminous soft-candy shell.
right handed and dual-brained
hard on the heart
and easy on the eyes.
I am
always hungry
often cold
but a lover of sleep
which soothes both.
I am moving towards daydreams
that are intensely private
but talk too much in my writing
and laugh too loudly
and give me away.
I am
singing my own song
painting my own image
writing my own story
photographing my own vision
and the whole of the work
fills my entire body with its art
and resonates with purpose in my mind.
I am
sometimes cruel
particularly judgmental
and that is my protection.
still - i am
capable of profound love
and understanding and gentility
and that is my gift.
I am
the ace at seeing good
or at least morbid humor
in the worst possible things.
I am
not afraid of much
except losing someone slowly.
I am
terribly sarcastic
unwilling to accept "no"
impossibly stubborn
frustrated by time
and this means
I can do anything
once i learn how to carve the hours out
and forgive myself and others
for the occasional loss of ambition.
I am
constantly improving
by ups and downs
and always looking
for a new way to love
everyone i know
and especially
those i don't,
because, through love
i am.
.: the technical :.
i'm 34, born June 19th, 1972 - a female, 3/4 time student of Psychology, a former childhood Navy-brat born on Whidbey Island in Oak Harbor Washington, no children, mostly full-time job.
i'm a voracious reader, a prolific writer , a terrific listener, a dedicated people watcher (windshield psychology), a good friend, a photographer , a singer and guitar player, a music and wine appreciator and a lover of cats. Odin , my kitty co-pilot, is a sepia snow-marble Bengal, which is a domesticated exotic breed: a cross between an Asian Leopard and an Egyptian Mau.
i trade my time for money as a genius waitress and by completing odd contract jobs in freelance writing and photography. I consider myself a photographer hobbyist who enjoys nature and shoots primarily digital. i spend much of my time in Maryland and Virginia stomping through the woods, chasing butterflies, combing grass, lifting leaves and getting muddy. Though i prefer to be out in the field, i also enjoy event photography, portraiture and photographing pets (particularly my beloved Odin).
i believe in the barter system and everything is fine so long as i eat, the bills get paid, i continue my education, live relatively stress free and enjoy my life.

My Interests

photography - writing - music - film - jungian psychology - storytelling - poetry - wine - water - food - fingerpainting - guitar - yoga - singing - reading - gardening - etymology - entomology - sleeping - cloud wrangling - people collecting

I'd like to meet:

my Joe . . . all over again.

Dreamers, dancers, writers, laughers, leapers, singers, strangers, searchers, nap-takers, bakers, wine-drinkers, deep-thinkers, painters, poets, photographers, quilters, gunslingers, conversationalists, chocolatiers, magicians, visionaries, superheroes, surrealists, cat-lovers, kite-flyers, star-gazers, nite-drivers, spangle-makers, beekeepers, teachers, yogis, alchemists, wizards, witches, cartographers, yeo(wo)men, silversmiths, clothiers, vintners, passionate people with integrity & clarity and believers in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.

i don't mind a little mystery and intrigue, but don't appreciate narcissism, ticket-punchers, people who treat friendships, sex and intimacy like an oil-change and the lies that accompany leading a double-life. if you'd like to know me - READ ME. if you'd like to befriend me, write me. if you're out here collecting MySpace faces like trading cards, there's nothing to see here . . . git along little dogies.
whether you are friend, lover, mate or other - please be sociable, polite, humourous, thoughtful, affectionate, passionate, emotional but not too messy, domesticated but well-traveled, adventurous but not utterly reckless, endearing, inspired and inclined to create.

Lull
Andrew Bird

Music:

Andrew Bird - Beck - Jeff Buckley - Tom Waits - Tori Amos - Sufjan Stevens - Feist - Imogen Heap - Keane - Massive Attack - Naomi - Esthero - Portishead - Lamb - Supreme Beings of Leisure - telepopmusik - Chemical Brothers - Goldfrapp - Radiohead - Sam Phillips - Patty Griffin - Nick Drake - Johnny Cash - Van Morrison - Bob- Dylan - Norah Jones - John Mayer - Fiona Apple - Bjork - Suzanne Vega - Air - The Cardigans - Guster - Toad The Wet Sprocket - Tegan and Sara - Crowded House - Talking Heads - Franz Ferdinand - Steely Dan - Jet - U2 - Tears For Fears - Frou Frou - The Ditty Bops - Annie Lennox - Coldplay - The Police - The Pretenders - They Might Be Giants - Beth Orton - Blondfire

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Down By Law - Office Space - Seven Samurai - Brazil - Blazing Saddles - Spaceballs - Kung Pow! Enter The Fist - The Fifth Element - In The Mood For Love - 2046 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - City of Lost Children - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Planes, Trains and Automobiles - Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls - Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Harold And Maude - Cannibal The Musical - Secret Of Nimh - Neverending Story

Television:

Six Feet Under - Rome - Deadwood - House, M.D. - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - CarnivÃ le - Drawn Together - Charlie Rose

Books:

AUTHORS: Annie Dillard - Adrienne Rich - Jeanette Winterson - Douglas Adams - Tom Robbins - Christopher Moore - Chuck Palahniuk - C.G. Jung - Joseph Campbell - David Foster Wallace - Shel Silverstein - Jim Carrol - Haruki Murakami - Dave Eggers - Clarissa Pinkola EstÃ©s, PhD - Mina Loy

My Blog

life, singular

The single life. one, long, nocturnal highway punctuated by a series of sort of happy zen moments, mostly spent, understood and eventually, at the end of the day, savour...
Posted by Andrea on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:28:00 PST

Holiday Travel

Well . . . We got back from Rome and semi-settled back into our workaday lives. Now it's time for the big Holiday Road trip. Joe and i are traveling to Rock...
Posted by Andrea on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:04:00 PST

ROME - if you want to . . .

"Boy Mercury shootin' through every degree Oooh girl dancin' down those dirty and dusty trails . . ." For those who are close to me, you alr...
Posted by Andrea on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:11:00 PST

Superheroes Since September

So much life happens in between writing sure, i toss off a few poems here and there, bread crumbs for the flitting birds to circle and chase and peck upon ...
Posted by Andrea on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:50:00 PST

Circling Hunger

a bit of a Halloween poem|written at a darker time & from a darker place in my life . . .what it is to be hungry, to be hunted, to be captured, then to wisely recognize when itis time to leave, or...
Posted by Andrea on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:30:00 PST

Keeper

Keeper I am breathless knowledge and light. I use my fingers as eyes and keep my hands behind my back, can you imagine all that I have seen? I am tall enough to listen to Gods who are distant and rem...
Posted by Andrea on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:58:00 PST

Post-apocalyptic war zone, somewhere other than Earth . . .

i've been dreaming a lot of airplanes, about falling into the ocean, about the end of life as we know it.about release.this is a continuation on the previous blog theme . . .Post-apocalyptic war zone,...
Posted by Andrea on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 02:24:00 PST

Exquisite Cognomen or "How to Name Our Pain"

i am not politically inclined to comment.i am not so easily terrified by 'terror.'i avoid most news to maximize joy.but i have some thoughts on these things, in grand universal brush strokes . . . ...
Posted by Andrea on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:19:00 PST

After

After Anthos had beenwhen i awokekeen to the ground.My hair fallen lushover the grassmy mouth wet with unspeakable ghosts as i had been feeding on flowersheavy with the sap of a woman's intentand with...
Posted by Andrea on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 06:00:00 PST

How To Eat A Mango . . .

sure, everything is good when it's shared. especially meals. food. wine. some would argue that it's most depressing, cooking for one and eating it alone. ...
Posted by Andrea on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:20:00 PST