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patruska

Truth is a fire, and to speak it means to shine and to burn. -Gustav Klimt

About Me

Garden of 2007

Garden of 2006


My Interests

art (painting, collage, photography, jewelry), storytelling, booksbooksbooks, gardening, hiking, anything great-outdoorsy, drumming circles, yoga, dancing, lucid dreaming, kumihimo (Japanese table-loom braiding), knitting poofy wearable things, sushi, chocolate, black cherries, ah-ha moments, ya-ya moments, kites, hammocks, and sharing house, home, and heart with the love-o-my life.
Artists: *Bernini*, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Gaugin, Picasso, Kandinsk, Pilobolus Dance, Andy Goldsworthy, Christo...


I'd like to meet:

...those of you that are devoted to your work (personal, artistic, or professional) with integrity, passion, and whimsy.

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Who Should Paint You: Gustav Klimt
Sensual and gorgeous, you would inspire an enchanting portrait..
With just enough classic appeal to be hung in any museum! What Artist Should Paint Your Portrait?

Music:

Dead Can Dance, Lisa Gerrard, Nickle Creek, Joan Osbourne, Stevie Nicks, Joss Stone, Savae, David Bowie, David Byrne, Kate Bush, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Sara Mclaughlin, David Stringer, Balligomingo, Phobos, Delerium, and now that I've been to *Bonnaroo*, I can add Les Claypool to the list...

Movies:

*~*Amilie*~*, The Elegant Universe, Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, Diabolique (original), Crash, The Notebook, Danny Deckchair, Rent, Chicago, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Memoirs of a Geisha, A Beautiful Mind...

Books:

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz,The Artists Way at Work by Julie Cameron, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar by Michael Prechtel, The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, the Craft of the Warrior by Robert Spencer, Twisted Yoga with Pilobolus, The Time Traveler's Wife by Niffenegger, anything Rumi (thank you, Coleman Barks)...

Heroes:

Emily Wilson, artist (& sister); Joseph Campbell, Maya Angelou, Patricia Pollacco, Persephone, all good teachers...

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

My Blog

waste 5 more minutes

waste 5 more minutes online by checking out this groovy blog, post secret.  it's especially interesting during the valentine season...  people mail in their secrets that they "can't tell" on...
Posted by patruska on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:59:00 PST

State of the Garden Address 2/4/07

I was in hopes of getting a little pic of the first flower in the garden today, but the battery only let me take one pic before going into a coma.Here are the boney fingers of muscadine vine next to t...
Posted by patruska on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:45:00 PST

Patsicus Domesticus

I was encouraged to blog so here I am -- Today has been a day of processing -- "as within, so without", so I've been seeking my inner clarity by shoving tons of stuff into the trash.  All over th...
Posted by patruska on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:03:00 PST

test test test

test test test.  If this had been an actual blog anouncement with real content...o.k. if you were curious enough to have clicked on something called "test", and you want a goodie, check out www.l...
Posted by patruska on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 02:02:00 PST