L.L. Barkat

• Occupation: Managing Editor HighCallingBlogs. Staff Writer, Curator. Author of Stone Crossings: Finding Grace in Hard and Hidden Places (InterVarsity Press).

Interests

• Writing
• art
• culture
• poetry
• spirituality
• languages (studying Greek & Latin & Hebrew at the moment)
• world issues
• simplicity
• family
• environmental concerns
• artist Andy Goldsworthy
• artist Makoto Fujimura
• artist Gail Nadeau
• gardening (even though nothing much ever grows for me)
• skiing
• figure skating
• hiking
• NYC Central Park
• sleeping

Favorite Movies

• Finding Neverland
• Wit
• Raise the Red Lantern
• The Miracle Maker
• Osama
• Chocolat
• Phantom of the Opera
• Tristan & Isolde
• Hero

Favorite Music

• Vivaldi
• Puccini
• Habib Koite
• Norah Jones
• Armik
• Buena Vista Social Club
• IZ
• Michael Card
• Katie Melua

Favorite Books

• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Love in the Time of Cholera
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Kristin Lavransdatter
• A Walk in the Woods
• Teaching a Stone to Talk
• Raw
• Living Cuisine
• Second Nature
• The Poetry Home Repair Manual
• Spiritual Disciplines Handbook
• The Soul Tells a Story
• Bird by Bird
• A Profound Weakness
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
• Living Downstream
• The Song of the Horse
• Samuel Hazo poetry books
• David Whyte poetry books
• Minnie and Moo and the Attack of the Easter Bunnies

My Blogs	Team Members
Seedlings in Stone
Love Notes to Yahweh
Green Inventions Central