lauren

• Age: 1959
• Gender: Female
• Astrological Sign: Leo
• Zodiac Year: Rat
• Industry: Arts
• Occupation: multi-discipline artist
• Location: Tucson : Arizona : United States

About Me

I've been an artist for more than 30 years - perhaps my most abiding love has been world mythology. Life demands constant change.

What movie is about the Ode to Joy?

Interests

• VIEW MY BIO at the end of this Blog. I love sacred and provocative Arts of all kinds from all places and times - touchstones and guides along the path. And whatever shakes me out of complacency as well. "Sanctify the place you are in. Follow your bliss. . . ." ~ Joseph Campbell

Favorite Movies

• An Inconvenient Truth
• Angels in America
• Shirley Valentine
• Amazing Grace
• The Last Wave
• Antonia's Line Lord of the Rings
• Dersu Uzala

Favorite Music

• "PRAISES FOR THE EARTH" by Jennifer Berezon & others. "The Ode to Joy" by Ludwig Von Beethoven. "In my Secret Life" by Leonard Cohen
• Vox
• Laurie Anderson
• Mozart
• Hildegarde Von Bingham
• "Let It Begin Now" by Reclaiming.

Favorite Books

• AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH by Al Gore. Sacred Places by James Swan
• On the Trail of Spiderwoman by Carol Patterson-Rudolph
• The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler
• Dialogues with the Living Earth by James and Roberta Swan
• Earthmind by Paul Devereux and John Steele
• Earth Memory by Paul Devereux
• The Book of Findhorn
• The Duino Elegies by R.M. Rilke
• The House of Belonging by David Whyte
• The Spiral Dance by Starhawk
• Manitou - The Sacred Landscape of New England's Native Civilization by J.W. Mavor & Byron Dix
• Selu - Seeking the Corn Mother's Wisdom by Marilou Awiakta
• The Guru Papers - Masks of Authoritarian Power by Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad - and so many more.

My Blogs	Team Members
Lauren Raine MFA
threads of the spiderwoman
Yellow Leaf Press