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Unknown Island North

"Unknown Island North" is culled from Annie Dillard's 1977 "Holy the Firm". A metaphor for a new thought on the horizon, it is "a new island, a new wrinkle, the deepening of wonder." Dillard finds various names for it as she sketches this new thing onto her drawing of the Puget Sound islands visible from her window. I suppose here, in my own way, I am seeking to name the things that most capture my attention as I look out at the world from my perspective. What follows is a record of what I see.

: Name: Lira; Location: Siskiyou County, California

Reclusive twenty-something. Married for seven years now to an honest-to-God Prince Charming. Mischievous Christian. Vegan with raw vegan aspirations. Fond of black lace. Cabin-dweller, soon-to-be little-house-in-the-woods-dweller. Constantly online: might as well be physically plugged in to the power outlet and the local server. Holds a BA in Religion, and a Raw Vegan Associate Chef & Instructor certification. Has worked in child care, education, special education, youth ministry, and children's ministry over the past fourteen years. Reads books like Cookie Monster eats cookies. Writer, artist, and musician. Laboriously learning how to dance. Utter scatterbrain. Adores Lewis Carroll's Alice in all her various incarnations. World just gets curiouser and curiouser every day.

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Sometimes The Story tracks you down, jumps you in the dark, then holds you hostage, all the while insisting through vehement whisperings that you write it into being, "Now!"

Today, Lira feels

moon phases

Lira's Latest Avatar:

Doll by eLouai

Great :

Yevaud's Get

Sasha

Murien

Zara

Aledanthar

Tribble Wynken

Pip

Sparks and Huey

Sooty

Urlana

Lira's Cybergarden:

Enter Garden

My assembly of cyberpets and cyberplants was painstakingly selected from some very special web image adoption centers. Many thanks to:

for Yevaud's Get and Zara

for Sasha

for Murien and Pip

for Aledanthar

for Tribble Wynken

for Sparks and Huey

for Sooty

for Jinx

for Urlana

for my Alice Plushie profile image and the Evil Plot Bunny

...and

for many of the lovely cyber- plants in my garden.

Note: Please do not steal the pets or other pretties you see on my blog. Each image links to its original web location. Go enjoy the artists' websites for yourself.

Visits since June 2005

Sunday, September 17, 2006

It's Only Fair

It occurred to me that I've been posting everyone else's picture on this blog. My husband, my sister, my cat. It's only fair that I go ahead and show everyone pictures of me too, right?

Here's a recent pictorial history of Lira. I was rummaging around in my odds-and-ends drawer the other day and I came across a bunch of my old ID cards from school. The hair comes, goes, comes again. The glasses get smaller as the years pass. I always think it's interesting to see how a person's face changes--and doesn't change--over time.

And here's a picture of me that my husband snapped for me yesterday as we were picking up some salad from the store to take to our reading group meeting last night.