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me!

Hi. I'm Marco's sister. Those of you who don't know me can call me Pearl. When I was nineteen, I bit into a pearl in a fried oyster in some linoleum-floored crab shack on Cape Cod.

I'm a recovering graduate student, high school Spanish teacher, unrepentant history geek, and budding mystic. I've traveled to four of the seven continents. I always love to discuss politics, religion, history, and philosophy. In my other life, I'm also a wife with really poor housekeeping skills. But I can cook.

 




15 Books Meme

Not the best 15 books you’ve ever read, or even ones you’d recommend to others.  Just 15 books that have made their mark on you and will always stick with you, for whatever reason.

In no particular order, mine are as follows:

1. The Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tsu, transl. Stephen Mitchell

2. The Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff

3. The Qur’an

4. The Soul of Rumi, by Coleman Barks

5. Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder

6. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie DIllard

7. The Unredeemed Captive, by John Demos

8. The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley

9. God’s Politics, by Jim Wallace

10. Nine Parts of Desire, by Geraldine Brooks

11. The Childcraft series from World Book Encyclopedia

12. The Spirit Level, by Seamus Heaney

13. The Root Cellar, by Janet Lunn

14. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

15. “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

via azspot:

(via abbyjean, apsies, aimee-b-loved, trapezemusic, shaneguiter):

Reblogged from azspot on July 20, 2009
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