Marylin Johnson Raisch
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Former librarian, aspiring scholar |
| Location | East Coast, United States |
| Introduction | Marylin Johnson Raisch's interests include comparative law, religion and religious law, history of the book, philosophy of science, psychology, art history,Buddhism, zen, yoga, fashion, tea, modernism in design, minimalism, and the future. She is a retired law librarian, current candidate for Doctor of Liberal Studies at Georgetown, and occasional poet, currently writing on the theory of "identity creation" and human dignity. Popular virtual communities are contrasted with intentional communities, the latter characterized by living according to some rule of life. |
| Favorite Movies | To Kill a Mockingbird, Dr, Zhivago, Farenheit 451, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, lots of Orson Welles and Eric Rohmer |
| Favorite Music | Baroque and early Classical, choral music (mainly liturgical), Beatles, some indie Rock, Philip Glass and newer classical or minimalist, most jazz, folk and cajun. |
| Favorite Books | Dante's Divina Commedia, currently re-reading Tennyson's Idylls of the King, recently enjoyed The Kite Runner, Penelope Firtzgerald's Offshore; Plato's Dialogues, Kierkegaard, Shakespeare In General, Greek myth, Buddhist sutras, works discussed in Eric Auerbach's Mimesis, otherwise too numerous to mention so check it out at LibraryThing. |
What would you name your ballet inspired by the sight of children leaping through a garden sprinkler?
Telling the Dancer from the Dance...and that She's Soaked and Needs to Come Inside the House and Dry Off Right Now