Leslie Tripp - ProfilesArchive

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Carole King, Anne Lamott, Maya Angelou, Meryl Streepe, Jann Arden, Annie Lennox, Gretchen Peters, Sheryl Crow

Music:

I love listening to great music from all genres really; jazz, classic rock, reggae/island music, creole, rockabilly, Americana, folk, bluegrass, good funky dance music....on and on.

Movies:

Under The Tuscan Sun is one of my favorites;Chocolat,Benny and Joon, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and Anything else with Johnny Depp in it;Silence of the Lambs,The Color Purple, A Mighty Wind, Best In Show, Raising Arizona,The Illusionist, Simon Birch, Office Space, Lars and the Real Girl.......... This layout was handmade with love by the folks at My space or yours? Go get one!

Television:

Grey's Anatomy, Scrubs, Ugly Betty, The Daily Show, Dancing With the Stars (yes, its true), Extreme Makeover:Home Edition, reruns of Sex And The City, and of course...The Food Network. I must add that NONE of these do I ever watch on a regular basis. I'm not that organized! This layout was handmade with love by the folks at My space or yours? Go get one!

Books:

Right now I'm reading The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy, by Robert Leleux. I can't pass up anything by David Sedaris. I'm also a huge Anne Lamott fan and I do enjoy a really good thriller every now and then just to get my juices flowing!And this just in...Eat,Pray,Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert. I just started A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle This layout was handmade with love by the folks at My space or yours? Go get one!

Heroes:

Mike, Shannon, and Taylor Tripp, Mom and Dad, Laverne and Henry Tripp, Linda Tripp, my brother Ken, and my sister Sara,Darwin and Jean Krenz This layout was handmade with love by the folks at My space or yours? Go get one!

My Blog

Krenz Cattle Round Up 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqhDhNCM_vY This was too much fun! Can't wait till next year, Darwin!...
Posted by Leslie Tripp on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:59:00 PST

The Awakening

My sister-in-law, Maxine, sent this passage to me. She is a clinical social worker at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. I found this so profoundly "right on" that I had to post it. It is lengthy, ...
Posted by Leslie Tripp on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:37:00 PST

Ah Ha!

....as I continue down life's road of accidental self-actualization, I recently stumbled upon this twinkly little nugget of realization: that the world and all therein becomes oh so much clearer once ...
Posted by Leslie Tripp on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:49:00 PST

recently

Tuesday, July 08, 2008 This is a re-post from my daughter, Shannon's blog. She's in Seoul, S.Korea teaching ESL and will be coming home for a visit in 18 days! Its hot again, and mosquitoes are out....
Posted by Leslie Tripp on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:41:00 PST

Hope!

I found this on another friend's blog. What a beautiful message! Read and be inspired... A Message Of Hope from the Hopi NationTo my fellow swimmers,There is a river flowing now very fast.It is so gre...
Posted by Leslie Tripp on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:41:00 PST

Calming the ugly little monster....

This is a re-post of an entry posted by Jann Arden. This entry meant so much to me...as if it were a response to my last post. And the post before....and before. Thank you Jann. Friday, June 20, 2008 ...
Posted by Leslie Tripp on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:56:00 PST

Ugly Little Monster

Insecurity is an ugly little monster and I have to wonder why it decides to show up when it does-It makes you do crazy, crazy things like question the motives of your closest friends: Are they sincere...
Posted by Leslie Tripp on Thu, 15 May 2008 11:10:00 PST

(continued) What Love Is

Love is:Extremely basal-it speaks to our most animal of instincts. It can also be, at times, the most calculated of actions we ever make.Love is a need, and love is a gift to be given. Love is warm,an...
Posted by Leslie Tripp on Sun, 11 May 2008 04:09:00 PST

What love is (continued)

setting: I'm sitting out on my deck, candles burning, music in the background....I look straight up and see mars.At least I think its mars. Its red and obvious....the night birds are singing. I just w...
Posted by Leslie Tripp on Sat, 10 May 2008 11:31:00 PST

What Love Is

I was just outside walking with my pup Beignet when, for whatever reason, I finally let my mind go and ponder on a question that my good friend presented to me months ago. She asked me to tell her wha...
Posted by Leslie Tripp on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:07:00 PST