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Relationship Status:: Married

Favorite Jackson Restaurant:: high: bravo! /low: pizza shack /in the middle: my own [mexican] kitchen

Favorite Local Watering Hole:: fennians, julip, cups

Favorite Band:: local: laurel IS-bister, other: classic rock, bluegrass, new-grass, folk, singer-songwriter. love right now: the arcade fire and feist

Politics:: Liberal

People don't know that I:: can stand on my toes [yea, with pointe shoes]. i speak german, ja. my dogs are named after frida and diego [kahlo/rivera]. i write poetry. i'm addicted to discover magazine. and gnomes.

About Me:: lover of: books [creative non-fiction, travel, poetry, real_good stories with real_good characters], lust [auf reisen], film [indie], dance [ballet, contemporary], theater [as in: stage], ART [visual, written, spoken, performed], the great outdoors [fishing, hiking, climbing. swimming, running], dogs [especially weenie pups], wine [oregon], beer [micro], chocolate [daaarrrrkkkk], Mother Earth [help me save her].

Website:: http://www.mymusebhp.blogspot.com

Who Invited You to LoungeList?: i follow my own paths, thank you

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good day, sunshine

scrap{book}

O Taste and See

The world is
~~not with us enough~~
O taste and see

the subway Bible poster said,
meaning The Lord, meaning
if anything all that lives
to the imagination's tongue,

grief, mercy, language,
tangerine, weather, to
breathe them, bite,
savor, chew, swallow, transform

into our flesh our
deaths, crossing the street, plum, quince,
living in the orchard and being

hungry, and plucking
the fruit.

~denise levertov [a real bad ass poet]

i took this photo in paris in 1997; i keep it on a clipboard on my dining room wall so that i am always reminded that there is something important looming beneath every step we take and around every corner we turn. look & see. look & see. there is a boy playing an accordion for pennies while we feast at a table with friends. don't forget him.

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At 5:17am on July 27, 2008, Frank Owen said…: correction: Alex's wife is Allyson. She's also an artist.

http://www.myspace.com/cosmthemovie

At 3:00am on July 27, 2008, Frank Owen said…: Ah, the Big Apple. Sounds good. Hope ya'll are kickin' it large up there.

I have friends I've visited a good bit up in the New Paltz-Highland-Poughkeepsie area, and have taken in the Catskills a bit (gorgeous!) but I haven't really soaked in the NYC vibe yet.

I'm told I would never leave, for the cuisine alone.

When you get a chance, go check out the art of Alex Grey and Amy Grey at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (COSM), which is right there in NYC.

542 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
http://www.cosm.org

Absolutely stunning, mind-bending art experience, that has also been featured on full-length DVD. You'll have to let me know what you think of their work. I don't know them personally, but they're friends of some friends.

All the best.

At 12:36am on July 22, 2008, TALK Dance Co said…: check out http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008807210318

At 11:08am on July 21, 2008, Laurel Isbister said…: hey Brans - I'm sorry I've been a bit awol - having parents in town & the Chick Ball - whew!!!! A lot of life passed by, I was having trouble calling people back, a few things didn't get done. BUT, the Chick BAll CD was cool, the night was amazing & I think my parents had fun.

I want to talk soon - let's try for a phone call, maybe? Cheers.

At 11:16pm on July 15, 2008, Allison Hurley said…: Hey Brandi! How are you? I'm really impressed with your page. Now I need to learn how to upload music to mine.

At 6:16pm on July 15, 2008, Greg said…: You are so kind to say hello and let me know you are relocated so wonderfully. I hope you enjoy it very much upstate. It was fun getting to know you a little and talking with you about Madison. I can hardly believe you are gone already. I had an idea to have you and your husband over for dinner before you left - oops. Have a great fall and a short winter. Many blessings - g

At 4:21pm on July 14, 2008, Frank Owen said…: Hiya, Brandi.

I very much "get" what you're saying. It brings to mind the words of Zen poet Thich Nhat Hanh, "Do not turn your eyes from suffering."

Before I moved to Boulder, Colorado for a decade, I lived for three years in Ashland, Wisconsin -- on the shores of Lake Superior (where Northland College is located). Brrrrrrrrrrrr. ;)

Madison is one hip mecca. School?

At 3:20pm on July 14, 2008, Frank Owen said…: That is a seriously haunting photo of the boy with the accordion. Very potent.

It reminds me of something I saw once in northern Wisconsin. I was sitting in the window box of my fourth floor apartment looking down on the street below. An old Anishinabe woman (Ojibway/Chippewa) was walking along the sidewalk, carrying a brown paper bag of groceries. It was a gray, rainy day and at a certain point she slipped and fell in a puddle. Her produce, bread, and various canned goods went everywhere.

She sat there a moment, sobbing a bit, and then slowly began reaching for her things, pulling them toward her.

A white guy walking along (I'll be so bold as to call him a "redneck") stopped for moment, looked down at her, laughed, and then proceeded to kick a can of peaches just out of reach. I was shocked.

I didn't have a camera, but the scene was seared into my brain permanently. It eventually led to a line in a poem about the First Nations (Native American) people... "those who fed your ancestors when they came here will feed your children in the end."

Your accordion boy photo has the same emotional punch to me. Thank you.

At 3:04pm on July 14, 2008, Laurel Isbister said…: sounds like you are rockin' it out!!! maybe you tapped a keg of creativity? eh? rad! I'm ok, after the car accident things seemed to get complicated- my air conditioning went out and had to get another vehicle. but am doing a -ok. the chick ball CD totally came out great, they should be ready in time. My family is coming for the weekend to see the Chick Ball. Luckily the fixed my a/c this morning -a brand new unit. Whee!