Interview time with Elliebird!

Friendly blogger Elliebird interviewed me today for her blog... Enjoy!

The Interview.

(Be sure to check out her blog after reading the interview, it's delightful!)

Feeding the Mental Chickens and the Real Sisters

Yesterday morning, as I was studiously skipping breakfast for lack of time, my sweet brother showed up at the door with a plate full of not 1 but 3 delightful kinds of breakfast, apple juice, and cocoa.

What a sweetie. My mental chickens and I thank you.

(i am currently hobbiting it with a fire, rookmaker's 'modern art', and large socks, and do not plan to stop until the weather gets warmer)

"lyndol, we's outta index cards!"

this is my bulletin board. i'm about to take old stuff down and let it start over... but wanted to record it for posterity. it's full of delightful people and events, recording a wonderful summer.

The Book Group of Wonder

I've recently organized a book group with some wonderful friends I met in a Shakespeare class. We meet once a month, and so far we've read Manalive, by GK Chesterton, and The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton. Last night was our third meeting, we had a potluck dinner and cupcakes... and I just want to say...

these girls are incredible. It's not often you meet 8 girls who are all brilliant, eloquent, lively, funny and awesome in the same class. It just amazes me where all our conversation goes...

social annahilization - hamlet - twilight bashing - obama - darth vader - chuck norris - marc chagall - christian artists - edward elgar - creating our own university - gilbert and sullivan - and on and on until late into the evening.

It is wonderful, they are wonderful. I hope you have friends as awesome and brilliant as mine.

(most of us are in the picture, which was taken on the last day of Shakespeare class with the amazing Mrs Lovell.)

siento que vuelvo a empezar

In Spanish class today Mrs. Neve played Julieta Venegas's (my favorite Spanish indie singer!) amazing music video for Limon Y Sol... and I was reminded how much I love it.

So here is the link, please go watch it. You are about to fall in love with a song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF-U8V894RA

I've translated the lyrics... they lose a little bit of their meaning in English, but I've tried to keep as close to the heart of the words as possible. Disfrutar!

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I must confess, sometimes I do not like the way you are

when you disappear and I do not quite understand why

you say nothing romantic when evening comes

when you have a strange mood with each full moon.

But everything else I win

I feel you near

...I feel reborn

I love you with lemon and salt

I love you as you are

You do not need to change anything

I love you if you come or go

up or down, unsure what you feel.

I must confess, I never believed in happiness

Sometimes things resembling it,

but those were pure coincidence.

Then you find me with your eyes

and give me something more.

I only feel you near.

I am reborn.

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Like Bookends

Tonight I went out to dinner with my dear friends, Emily (who I've known since I was about 1) and Ally (who is visiting from Belgium... yes, I have friends in Belgium).

We went down to the West End, to Spaghetti Warehouse... yom! And we had pretty much the whole place to ourselves, and were the only ones sitting in the trolley car, so we had some fun.

Including a food battle while our waiter wasn't looking...

And a bit more dancing silliness...

Our waiter gave us free dessert because he thought we were fun!

And after, we found this really weird dinosaur statue outside the restauraunt.

We're not sure what it's supposed to be doing. Pole vaulting?

Hope you had as good a Tuesday night as I did!

Anatidaephobia

The fear that you are being watched

by a duck.

-photo via flickr

Poetry Ceilidh Attempts

I've been asked to participate in The Beehive's Poetry Ceilidh, and as I am feeling poetically inhibited and know that my limited skills will balk at being pushed beyond their capacity, tonight I'm going to re-post a poem I wrote last fall.

If you choose to read this poem, you must participate! If I can, anyone can!

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i can see the beauty
people, colours, and tin cans
rusted in a heap
brighter berries than before

only you see something
else - nobody else saw
some small beauty
in me

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Be sure to hop over to the Beehive and see the other contributers!

to the carnival with you, away!

Tonight sister and brothers and I went to a street carnival! It was ever so much fun... we rode scaaary rides and ate slightly scaaaary food and had a delightful time!

I love how many things are happening here.

I was scared of this, but rode it anyway and it was amazing! ... so there's another thing off the I'm-scared-of-this list!

Inside the wonderful spinning bears... we spun that thing faster than anyone else, so we WIN!

Sceeered!

The view from the very top of the Ferris Wheel.

Dan took this from the seat in front of us... I love how you can see how tiny the roller coaster is, and yet we're freaking out! We're wimpy wimpersons!

"The Hidden Language of the Soul", Pt. II

So, here is a video of Caitlin's ballet solo... loverly! I unfortunately can't find my own "solo work", but have included one of an interpretive piece I did. Enjoy!