mary kathryn

well, i am still proudly from chapel hill -one of the few still here- though i've lived all over the triangle and in brooklyn for a spell, where i thought i was going to pursue theater and it ended up being about something completely different. then i ended up in an rv for a week with a bluegrass band and somehow found myself back home. i'm mad about new york and i miss it on a regular basis. i have The Cutest Dog in the World, zella, a cairn terrier (think toto). everyone thinks so. (see my pics and decide for yourself.) working for the family business, though we just sold it; living on the family farm, which will go with it. have a little business of my own, creative juices, which serves to foster, promote, and network creative people. am trying to get out there into the music scene...either that or into breakdancing. (seriously, i'm a girl looking for a band who's looking for a lady-singer. if you know of any, let me know.) i'm a member of both the junior league and chix in business. teresa at work today said my note looked like "scribble-scrabble" and so i've been saying that all day. try it, it will make you laugh. "scribble-scrabble." i LOVE to laugh -deep, good, belly laughs- with truly funny people -dustin, kel, and josh leroy are STILL the funniest people i know. i've yet to find anyone that rivals their kinds of funny. i love really great and inspiring conversation that leaves your heart feeling good. like the kind you have on someone's big comfy couch with a good cup of coffee (no starblechs, please) and you don't have anywhere else to be. people say i'm like a comfy couch, that they're at home with me. i'm passionate about encouraging people to do the thing that they're created for, the thing that makes their sky blue. i also really love being able to say "you're okay" to someone when they think they're not (but only if it's true). sometimes that's all you need to hear. i'm completely comfortable sitting in silence at a stoplight. or at any point in the trip. i don't even think about "oh, no one's talking right now." we're just not is all. inauthenticity rubs my spirit the wrong way, though i try to be gracious and kind to people who just haven't discovered their trueness yet. one never knows what another has gone or is going through. i have five gray hairs. FIVE! ugh. i'm a little bit neurotic and incredibly quirky, which i fully and completely embrace. i wear my heart on my sleeve and i don't shame myself for it. anymore. you will know exactly what i'm thinking just by the look on my face. anyone who knows me will tell you that you can't put me in a box, to try would be futile. i'm the type of person that's not easy to shop for, but as soon as you see something you would think, "omigosh, she would LOVE this!" i live in the moment and i also dream a lot. i get wanderlust about once or twice a year and make plans to move somewhere (right now it's austin), but usually a long road trip will do me just right. i love both the mountains -especially in the fall- and the beach. i love, love, love the outdoors, though moreso just exploring than climbing because i'm the girl that would be in the news for falling to her death because her beaner wasn't tight enough or something lame like that. uh...what else...two sisters, one a pastor; the other, an esl specialist. i'm an artist in every sense. i paint and draw; sing, act, dance; i try to play instruments, but to no avail. i like to make things and use my hands. and my feet. i love cut flowers, especially gerbera daisies and tulips, though i recently discovered freesia at whole foods and i wanted to eat it. it's divine. i'm working on a book. actually, i haven't started on it yet but i have it in my head. sometimes i say i'm 87 on the inside because life experience has brought me much wisdom. i adore my friends and i try to remain grateful. i really like wine. so much that i'm not drinking it anymore. i also love Jesus with all my heart, even if it doesn't always look like i do. but i revel in knowing that i am His righteousness -and so are you- and there's nothing we can do that makes that any more or less true. we are because He is, and only because He is. oo...that's good news to my soul.