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Audra

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About Me

you can't make much of a living writing poetry. but life in general is less prosy.poetry is my only optimism.

My Interests

anything can be interesting, it just depends on the context. take spiders, for instance. i'm dealthy afraid of spiders, and yet i spent a good 20 minutes the other day watching one weave it's web. i also like nearly anything related to arts & creativity, as well as science. and nature. and faith. and maps. and outer space. and uselss information that i can bring up in those awkward moments at parties.

I'd like to meet:

stephen colbert.

Music:

i like music that lets me play pretend. Lauryn Hill, Rachmaninov, Imogen Heap, Massive Attack, The Violet Burning, U2, Dave Mathews, The Umbrella Tree, The Golden Sounds, Andrew Collins, Jack Johnson, Over The Rhine, Sixpense None the Richer, Alison Kraus and Union Station, Ben Folds, Fleming and John, Anthony Skinner, music from Cirque du Soleil, Venus Hum, and i must admit to singing along to Kelly Clarkson when she comes on the radio.

Movies:

The Princess Bride, Elizabeth, Wit, X-Men, Stigmata, Pirates of the Carribbean, Whale Rider, The Matrix, Batman Begins, ... these lists are really challenging. i can't ever remember under the pressure. V for Vendetta changed my life.

Television:

battlestar galactica (still a nerd at heart). if i'm watching tv, it's because i'm avoiding something else i should be doing. i primarily like avoiding things with good sci-fi. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are essential. HGTV is addicting. I still miss X-files.

Books:

The Once and Future King, The Three Musketeers, Pride and Prejudice, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Otherland, Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke's Book Of Hours, Lost Horizon, Soul Survivor, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, most Sherlock Holmes, and Dune are some of my favorites. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall at The Eagle and Child.

Heroes:

anyone who can live the faith they claim. my husband, as he's survived me for six years and counting:)

My Blog

poet again

it’s been a long time i’ve forgotten how we fit the contours of your shape the way we flow in and out and the pieces of nostalgia that fall into place as the soft surface meets the hard ...
Posted by Audra on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:22:00 PST

lately

Words have been difficult lately. I sometimes think only in words& I even see the font& but other times it's only pictures and sounds. Lately it's just color& swirls of red and orange and purple and f...
Posted by Audra on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:49:00 PST

Missy & the Hancocks

Sunshine, giggles, children, and stories...   We'd sit up late at night and I would watch you as we all talked. I had never met a person like you before. I knew boring people, and opinionated pe...
Posted by Audra on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:05:00 PST

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the pen has lately been too heavy to bear. so many things are changing and shifting that to pin them down with words would be a feat for which i am ill-equipped. i can't even see all the change, not y...
Posted by Audra on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:41:00 PST

abrasivemedia.org on VIRB

Check out the new abrasiveMedia page. Until the redirect kicks in we're at www.virb.com/abrasivemedia. Soon we'll be findable at abrasivemedia.org. I realize that a company which offers website design...
Posted by Audra on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:22:00 PST

16

It's the hour. Sleep is elusive as I watch the minutes roll by, seeing again in my mind's eye the last second you breathed The years in between count for days in this moment Or maybe weeks. But surel...
Posted by Audra on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:13:00 PST

Top 10 Things I Plan to do Without a Neck Brace

10. Swim. 9. Look out the car window. Heard recently, "mommy, there's an airplane! I wish you could look at it" and "did you see if I missed the exit back there?" No, actually, I didn't. The eyes-in-t...
Posted by Audra on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:41:00 PST

sleepless

I have found hope to be a real thing. Through I cannot make God give me a thing And I cannot will away the pains of the earth For all my striving, to take its mourning on my back And die slowly under ...
Posted by Audra on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:21:00 PST

untitled

who hopes and dreams for starvation? yet i am supposed to believe that the call of God is to enforce morality while ignoring the pleas for help from the suffering. the songs are getting trite, and th...
Posted by Audra on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:45:00 PST

because nothing is more poetic

than true freedom in healthcare. http://www.pnhp.org/  ...
Posted by Audra on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:01:00 PST