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"We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the distance between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing. I wonder sometimes whether with a slight adjustment of perspective it could be cherished as a sensation on its own terms, since it is as inherent to the human condition as blue is to distance? If you can look across the distance without wanting to close it up, if you can own your longing in the same way that you own the beauty of the blue that can never be possessed? For something of this longing will, like the blue of distance, only be relocated, not assuaged, by acquisition and arrival, just as the mountains cease to blue when you arrive among them and the blue instead tints the next beyond. Somewhere in this is the mystery of why tragedies are more beautiful than comedies and why we take a huge pleasure in the sadness of certain songs and stories. Something is always far away." - Rebecca Solnit This video will tell you more about myself than any words can... How I Like to Dance
"THE HUMANS ARE DEAD"VICTOR BORGE - amazing artist and comedian

My Interests

Theatre, teaching, dancing, yoga, animals, children, books, epsom salt baths everyday, crossword puzzles, sitting by the lake and watching the boats real far away.

I'd like to meet:

My grandma, the Dalai Lama, Pema Chodron,Frida Kahlo .....

Music:

Ms. Lauper.Ben FoldsGlen HansardSufjan Stevensas well as Jack Johnson, Radiohead, Bjork, John Mayer, Kate Nash, The Tossers, The Frames, David Berkeley, Ben Lee, Vienna Teng, and bunches more.

Movies:

Once, Everything is Illuminated, Juno, Frida, Keeping the Faith, The Three Amigos, 50 First Dates, Spanglish, A Christmas Story, anything that has "Care-Bear Adventures" in the title and is from 1981, Chocolat, Grosse Pointe Blank, Pride and Prejudice (both versions), any movie that reminds me of people I love.

Television:

Top Chef, Project Runway, House, Dexter, Six Feet Under, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Oprah, Friends, Mad About You, and Sex in the City.

Books:

Currently reading: "Shadows of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Just finished: "The Book of Getting Even" by Benjamin Taylor. All time favorites: Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett, and the Berenstein Bears. Wish I could find my: childhood copy of Winnie the Pooh, in which I colored Christopher Robin's eyes black with a ballpoint pen.

Heroes:

Those who are able to step beyond their egos and live their lives with a little bit of grace.

My Blog

By the skin of my teeth

It is 5AM on this chilly chilly morning and I am UP.Whoduthunkit - the girl who can sleep in for hours is habitually awake at this time. UP, as in I could guide planes in for the landing UP as i...
Posted by Tanya on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:06:00 PST

Like the Moon Behind the Clouds

Hey Everyone!I'm in a show with Caffeine Theatre called "Like the Moon Behind the Clouds". It's downtown at the Chicago Cultural Center. I would love your support (and I would love to get ...
Posted by Tanya on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:27:00 PST

Changes

She wears her pain behind her ear and just above - It sits with her not clouding her vision but still tickling the skin of her temple and sometimes, if she's lying down, her tears will dampen its...
Posted by Tanya on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:53:00 PST

Not so easy

I had a lil conversation with my four-year old niece today. I walked into her bedroom and found her alone, lying on her bed, absentmindedly playing with a very sparkly member of the Sesame Stree...
Posted by Tanya on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:29:00 PST

Number 79

let it go - the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise-let it go it was sworn to &...
Posted by Tanya on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:03:00 PST

On Finding a Shoe Heel - Alison Knowles

On Finding a Shoe Heel - by Alison Knowles As we know, time spent on shoes is never wasted. I shall describe my process of discovery of such an item on the street. Of finding shoe heel itself. I am no...
Posted by Tanya on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:11:00 PST

Vietnam photos

Hey All, I've posted a handful of photos from my trip to Cambodia and Vietnam. There's more to come in the future (my brother is holding my data hostage on his external drive). Enjoy.&...
Posted by Tanya on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:49:00 PST

Jet lag

The jet it laggeth. I have returned home from three weeks in Asia, and boy do my arms hurt. I am a homebody who loves a regular sleeping schedule but my body is 14 hours ahead of it...
Posted by Tanya on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:39:00 PST

Going home, coming home.

Kay kids. I be leaving in a week, count it down, count it down. I'll be in Vietnam for a majority of November. So, wish me a parasite-free vacation. I'm already homesick. ...
Posted by Tanya on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:50:00 PST

Nice things I hear.

"Imprecision. Fear. This is what gets them to their feet."
Posted by Tanya on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:12:00 PST