User Profile
Add Friend
Add Note
Track User
Send Message
Send V-Gift
A Pilgrim Soul
Created on 2005-01-27 17:43:47 (#5923268), last updated 2009-11-24
4,278 comments received, 4,159 comments posted
Paid Account [Gift]
1,185 Journal Entries, 1,133 Tags, 5 Memories, 80+ ScrapBook Files, 0 Virtual Gifts, 45 Userpics
Basic Info| Name: | Maureen |
|---|---|
| Website: | By Singing Light |
Bio
I spin words. Sometimes my work is fine and smooth. Sometimes it is lumpy, like Baba Yaga was spinning it while her hut was jumping up and down on its chicken legs.
I am a maker of small beauties.
I am on a journey. I don't know where it's leading me (which is a scary thought most of the time) but I know my dreams. To be married. To write. To have a home in the country. To cook, to garden, to sew.
I read. Fast. A lot. I don't think I'm smarter than anyone else. I can't play sports and I'm only so-so at music. But I read. If I could, I would give everyone warm bread (gluten free available) and a good book.
I try to love God. And while I fall down every day, I trust in His mercy and I get up.
I am a transplant geographically and I'm not taking root. Someday I hope to move back to the Midwest, the region I think of as home.
I am short. This is not my identity. It does mean that while most people simply take something from a shelf I have to figure out if I can reach it and if I can't, weigh the relative embarrassments of jumping, getting a stool, and asking someone else to get it down for me. It means that standard countertops are too high for me to use comfortably.
Sometimes people seem to think that I am a deep thinker. Really what I am is quiet. When I'm with a small group of friends I open up but when I'm in a crowd I drift to the edges.
On any given day I can think of at least three things on my to-do list that don't get done. Usually it's cleaning my room.
The Facts:
I'm 22. I am a senior in college, majoring in English. My family lives an hour south of my school. I'm an Eastern Orthodox Christian. My family attends a church in the Serbian Diocese, but we're converts not cradle Orthodox. I love Orthodoxy--it is the only denomination I can imagine being a part of! I am the oldest of three children.
Pertinent links
Longer About Me (must be an LJ friend to see)
By Singing Light, my public blog
My graphics journal
Miscellaneous
*HUGS* TOTAL!
give elvenjaneite more *HUGS*
Get hugs of your own
The quote on my door at the moment: "Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope."
--Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
Previous Quotes:
"Stories tend to get out of hand." ~J.R.R. Tolkien
"We have too many high-sounding words and too few actions which correspond with them." ~Abigail Adams
"Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved." ~Soren Kierkegaard
"Invention hovers always a little above the rules" ~Mary Oliver
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul/And sings the tune without the words/And never stops at all." ~Emily Dickinson
"We read to know we're not alone." ~C.S. Lewis
"Oh the cleverness of me!" ~Peter Pan
"Truth is a rock and does change with our fashions...to deceive others is reprehensible, to deceive ourselves is a tragedy." ~Frank Peretti
ConnectInterests (55):
arthur ransome, bleak house, books, c.s. lewis, calligraphy, charles dickens, corrie ten boom, dancing, diana wynne jones, dorothy sayers, downright dencey, elizabeth gaskell, elizabeth goudge, embroidery, england, english literature, folk dancing, gerald morris, i don't date, idd, ireland, j.r.r. tolkien, jane austen, josephine tey, lindy, lord of the rings, lord peter wimsey, lotr, megan whalen turner, middlemarch, music, musicals, narnia, north and south, orthodox christianity, orthodoxy, our mutual friend, p.g. wodehouse, paper dolls, period dramas, persuasion, poetry, pride and prejudice, reading, robin mckinley, rosemary tree, russia, sewing, singing, sound of music, swallows and amazons, swing dancing, tea, wives and daughters, writing
Friends [View Entries] Friends (42):
bellawilfer, bornforlove, chestryoak, eattheolives, elanortheeldest, elisamurphy, enchantinglight, ev_autozam, flowershopgirl, gloriamarilyn, godscowgirl, godsprincess15, gooseberry_bush, guardianoforder, hisgirl21, hominygrits, ithilien_elf, jellybeanie87, kayra_pauline, krikketgirl, lifeisgood06, lizzimessick, mariangal, miss__keely, miss_mary_b, misselinor, mountainmaiden, olde_fashioned, paintergirl87, piccadilly_pics, prima_donna87, princess_mia, rj_anderson, ruhamah, singergirl01, singersdd, skywriter86, sommertiara, the_storygirl, tiamimi, windandtherain, wistfulmaid
Mutual Friends (35):
bellawilfer, bornforlove, chestryoak, eattheolives, elanortheeldest, elisamurphy, enchantinglight, ev_autozam, flowershopgirl, gloriamarilyn, godscowgirl, godsprincess15, gooseberry_bush, guardianoforder, hisgirl21, hominygrits, ithilien_elf, kayra_pauline, krikketgirl, lifeisgood06, miss__keely, miss_mary_b, misselinor, mountainmaiden, paintergirl87, prima_donna87, princess_mia, rj_anderson, ruhamah, singergirl01, singersdd, skywriter86, tiamimi, windandtherain, wistfulmaid
Also Friend of (22):
Communities [View Entries] Watching (28):
art_sanctuary, art_stills, austen_anne, austen_awards, austen_icons, bbccostumedrama, clean_icons, clean_vintage, costume_awards, costumecaps, costumesarelove, dianawynnejones, haunted_teacosy, icons100, judging_covers, lj_maintenance, lotr_graphics, mythical_truth, ns_icons, orthodoxy, pd_icons, period_stills, pickmybest, regency_stills, sheer_elegance, sounis, tempest_icons, victorianstills
Member of (33):
206_bones, art_sanctuary, art_stills, austen_anne, austen_awards, austen_icons, austen_stills, bbccostumedrama, capsrequest, clean_icons, clean_vintage, costume_awards, costumecaps, costumesarelove, dianawynnejones, dj_capslock, haunted_teacosy, icons100, judging_covers, lotr_graphics, mythical_truth, nanoljers, ns_icons, orthodoxy, paidmembers, pd_icons, period_stills, pickmybest, regency_stills, sheer_elegance, sounis, victorianstills, whatwasthatbook
Feeds [View Entries] Watching (0)
