Susan Carpenter Sims

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Gender Female
Occupation Bringing it all together, one blooming thing at a time.
Location Taos, New Mexico
Introduction I'm in essence a collage-maker, not only with images but also ideas and words. My inspiration is to contemplate connections among things and draw attention to them.

I try to live by the poet Keats' concept of Negative Capability: "The ability to rest in mysteries, uncertainties, and doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact or reason."

Despite this, I do get irritable.
Interests Awakening, discovering and creating the world, Celebrancy, ceremonies, rituals, books, teaching, the Shekhinah, Sophia, Green Tara, mothering, mermaids, dragons, pilgrimage, collage: transfiguring the world with scissors and glue, monasticism, interfaith dialogue, flowers and pollinators, bees, hummingbirds, hummingbird hawk moths, wind, water, earth, fire, doves, crows/ravens, redwoods, live oaks, The Dream of the Rood, Iona, stories:, folklore, mythology, fairy tales, movies, setting as character, growing cooking and eating food, entrepreneurship, travel, archetypes, theology, ecotheology, sustainability, grassroots everything, poetry, religion, dancing, camping, paradox, the holiness of the commonplace, saints, mystics, theologian scientists, the microcosmic universe, the macrocosmic universe, essential oils
Favorite Movies Joe Versus the Volcano, True Romance, The Fisher King, Stranger Than Fiction, Overboard, V for Vendetta, Love Actually, Candyman, Cold Mountain, Pleasantville, Bobby, Into the Wild, Grand Canyon, What Dreams May Come, Dark City, Fearless, Life As A House, The Breakfast Club, Wild At Heart, Rambling Rose, Good Will Hunting, The Truman Show, The Soloist, Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Harold and Maude, Heaven Can Wait (the Warren Beatty version), Yes Man, , generally anything by:, Lasse Hallstrom, Terry Gilliam, the Wachowski brothers, Cameron Crowe.
Favorite Music Rush, White Stripes, old jazz, Coldplay, Third Day, big band, Norah Jones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, bluegrass, americana, classic guitar, Taize, AfroCelts, Wagogo, Tori Amos, Kiss, Meg Hutchinson, Poi Dog Pondering, U2, Fleetwood Mac, various movie soundtracks, Sarah McLachlin, Christmas music
Favorite Books fiction and essays by the following AUTHORS:, John Steinbeck, Annie Dillard, Tom Robbins, Clive Barker, Wendell Berry, Barbara Kingsolver, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Lamott, Kathleen Norris, Neil Gaiman, Thomas Merton, Pema Chodron, Paulo Coelho, Madeleine L'Engle, Byron Katie, Eckhart Tolle, LIFE OF PI, POETS:, Henry Taylor, Mary Oliver, Lisel Mueller, Wendell Berry, Margaret Atwood, Dorianne Laux, Sam Taylor, Li-Young Lee

You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?

I visit the hermit clown and have him make me a magic shovel out of dragon bones.