ibnrtis

My blogs

Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	teacher-artist-iconoclast
Location	Colfax, ca, United States
Introduction	I've been an artist my entire life but didn't acknowledge it until I was an adult. If I can't be creating I feel I am not living. I don't like to do things just to distract myself from life, like watch mindless television or film or read awful unworthy books or articles. I fling them across the room, sometimes literally. I love the little things, like aroma of brewing coffee, flowers I've just picked from my garden, hugs from my granddots, a soft cat head to stroke, and a new book to read. My life has had enough challenges to make most days seem perfect, my friends are all interesting and loved, my family is my center and each day is a gift which I never ever stop appreciating.
Interests	questioning, reading, nurturing, creating, growing stuff, enraging, calming, educating
Favorite Movies	African Queen, All the Jane Austen's, Kill Bill series, (yeah, quite a contrast there!) Cuckoo's Nest, Most Quentin Tarantino, What Dreams May Come, Ran
Favorite Music	most Blues, Jazz, Bob Dylan (huge fan), Rock, both old and new, World, Bhuddist chants, Classical but not Baroque or Opera except Nessum Dorma.
Favorite Books	so many. Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Dooer, Paul Theroux travel and fiction, John Irving, Jane Smiley, Joyce Carol Oates

That can't really be a fish you're standing on, can it?

No, it's a cat that's been shaved.