Zara Wilder
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Polymathic Bookworm & Free Spirit |
| Location | Pacific Northwest, United States |
| Introduction | Zarachnia: I am a dark deep dry red wine. Don't curse me—I'm already lost. Call me: Nocturnal Triangle, Wind in the Trees, and Five Hallelujahs as I saunter like a tarantula, slow but steady along rows of tidy bookspines dustless on a maple shelf. I am a pomegranate playing violin—when I'm not ranging up the mountain or fording rustproof streams of silver light. Love! I say. Mediocre irrelevance is a tomb to sing alive. I tread hedges, hum, invent ultraviolet arias, and burn muses like bittersweet incense—on special occasions. My underwater voices redwood me south. I drink Highway One into Mendocino. Cliffs there leap wild into the surging Pacific. Secret shady wine: I am rain-wet stone dreaming beyond all edges. |
| Interests | Literature, Writing, Speculative Genres, Music, Cinema, Theater Arts, Board Games, Embroidery, Whole Foods Cuisine, Science, Religion, Philosophy, Virtue Ethics, Critical Thinking, Holistic Medicine, Human Rights, Animal Rights, Environmental Justice, Mythology, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Legends, Languages, History, Ireland, Flowers, Fruits, Vegetables, Trees, Insects, Spiders, Cats, Children, Love |
| Favorite Music | pandora.com/profile/zarachnia.wilder |
| Favorite Books | Harper Lee, Emily Dickinson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jane Austen, Annette Curtis Klaus, Madeleine L'Engle, Wendy Pini, Barbara Kingsolver, Robin McKinley, Toni Morrison, Donna Jo Napoli, Meredith Ann Pierce, Tamora Pierce, Adrienne Rich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Elizabeth Tallent, Anne Tyler, Ursula Vernon, Alice Walker, Terri Windling, Jane Yolen, Eve Bunting, Barbara Ehrenreich, Algernon Blackwood, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Daniel P. Mannix, Ray Bradbury, Rainer Maria Rilke, Neil Gaiman, Robert A. Heinlein, Bill Watterson, Tatsuya Ishisda, Timothy Zahn, Iain Pears, Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, Neal Stephenson, William Shakespeare, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Thich Nhat Hanh, Julian of Norwich, Jürgen Moltmann, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Carter Heyward, Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, & many others... |
Never mind the turtle. Don't you think you're sure to win?
Pennywise certainly thought so...