"I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists...."
"There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been." - A. S. Byatt, Possession
 My favorite diaries: |
| life-my-way profile - diary |
| comments: locked |
| annanotbob2 profile - diary |
| comments: Brave, generous, supportive. |
| zenayda profile - diary |
| comments: locked |
| i-am-jack profile - diary |
| comments: locked |
| swordfern profile - diary |
| comments: Beautifully lyrical writing, raw honesty. Quite a find. |
| jarofporter profile - diary |
| comments: Possessed of extraordinary intelligence and kindness of heart. |
My favorite music: |
| Beethoven |
| comments: And Ravel and Prokofiev and Chopin and Rachmaninov and Bach and Brahms and Schubert and Mozart and Debussy and Vaughn-Williams and Copland and Schumann and Wagner and Strauss and . . . |
| Christine Lavin |
| comments: And David Wilcox, Patty Larkin, Cheryl Wheeler. You don't know what you're missing. |
| Liz Story |
| comments: All the evocative colors of George Winston, et al, but with real musical substance. |
| Rufus Wainwright |
| comments: "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" is a personal anthem. Plus I have a thing for that scruffy-boy look. I like David Mead, too. |
| Dire Straits |
| comments: If only for the "Brothers in Arms" album. Plus Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Linda Rondstadt, Billy Joel, Elton John. Would it surprise you to know that I was once voted "Most likely to remain hopelessly stuck in the 80's"? |
My favorite movies: |
| A Room with a View |
| comments: Perfection |
| Dangerous Liaisons |
| comments: Ditto |
| Sense and Sensibility |
| comments: Again: perfection. |
| The Big Chill |
| comments: That was me: South Carolina, great college friends, the whole nine yards. |
| My Life as a Dog |
| comments: That was me, too. And "Cinema Paradiso": that was me, too, again. |
My favorite authors: |
| William Shakespeare |
| comments: "Resolve you for more amazement." Always. |
| Iris Murdoch |
| comments: And A. S. Byatt, and Margaret Attwood, and Jane Austen, and Saul Bellow, and Ethan Canin, and Michael Chabon, and Beverly (yes) Cleary, and A.A. Milne, and Pat Conroy... |
| Robertson Davies |
| comments: And Charles Dickens, and Joan Didion, and William Faulkner, and Jonathan Safran Foer, and William Faulkner, and E.M. Forster, and Jim Grimsley... |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| comments: Ernest Hemingway, Homer, Garrison Keillor, John Irving, David Leavitt, Cormac McCarthy, Susan Minot, Toni Morrison... |
| Chaim Potok |
| comments: Carol Shields, J. D. Salinger, Susan Sontag, J.R.R. Tolkein, Leo Tolstoy, John Updike, Tom Stoppard, Thomas Wolfe, David Sedaris.... |
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