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| User: | eestiplika (1047212)  Tempest in a Teacup
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| Name: | eestiplika | ||||
| Location: | San Francisco, California, United States | ||||
| Birthdate: | 11-13 | ||||
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| Bio: | 'eestiplika' is a slangy estonian word for estonian girl. As far as i'm concerned, real bread has spelt in it. I heart spelt. Also saunas. Really hot ones, where you hit yourself with fresh birch branches. I suspect this is an Estonian thing. There is no such thing as autobiography, there's only only art and lies. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. There is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or a memoir. Simply, it is real. (Jeanette Winterson) Taking one's chances in life is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck. (Lemony Snicket) Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. (G.K. Chesterton) Here are some things to pray to in San Francisco: the bay, the mountain, the goddess of the city; remembering, forgetting, sudden pleasure, loss; sunrise and sunset; salt; the tutelary gods of Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Basque, French, Italian and Mexican cooking; the solitude of coffee houses and museums; the virgin, mother and widow moons; hilliness, vistas; John McLaren, Saint Francis; The Mother of Sorrows; the rhythm of any life still whole through three generations; wine, especially zinfandel because from that Hungarian vine-slip came first a native wine not resinous and sugar heavy; the sourdough mother, true yeast and beginning; all fish and fishermen at the turning of the tide; the turning of the tide; eelgrass, oldest inhabitant; fog; seagulls; Joseph Worcester; plum blossoms; warm days in January . . . (Robert Hass) | ||||
| Memories:: | 27 entries | ||||
| Pictures: | over 30 public | ||||
| Interests: | 110: a.s.byatt, abundance, adirondacks, albert camus, alternatives to capitalism, anarchism, andy goldsworthy, ani difranco, art, august, backpacking, bakeries, big sur, bisexuality, board games, bodywork, books, boondocks, bridget jones, buffy the vampire slayer, bully hill, california, cheese, child development, conspiracy of beards, cooking, copyediting, crosswords, david sedaris, dictionaries, doris kareva, dunedin, economics, enclosures, estonia, ex-pats, farmers' markets, feminism, flirting, food, france, french, gender fluidity, gender theory, gerald durrell, good vibrations, green gulch farm, griffin & sabine, harbin hot springs, harold and maude, harry potter slash, haven kimmel, immigrants, immigration, international high school, italian, italy, jaan kross, jeanette winterson, josh ritter, kink, knitting, kristiina ehin, lauren slater, leonard cohen, liisi koikson, locavores, mart sander, millennium restaurant, montessori, new college of california, new zealand, office space, paul avrich, photography, poetry, polyamory, preston, pärnu, queer, raimond valgre, redemption songs, robert hass, san francisco bay area, scarcity, seattle, sex, shaun tan, slow food, social change, social movements, soviet union, spelt, sustainability, tarot, tea, terry pratchett, the lost coast, theater, this american life, tolstoy, torchwood, triin soomets, veganism, vegetarianism, walla walla, wallace and gromit, whitman college, writing, yoga | ||||
| Schools: | Pärnu Koidula Gümnaasium - Pärnu, Pärnumaa, Estonia (1984 - 1990) Aptos Middle School - San Francisco, CA (1991) International Studies Academy - San Francisco, CA (1991 - 1995) Whitman College - Walla Walla, WA (1995 - 1999) University of Otago - Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand (Aotearoa) (1998) New College of California - San Francisco, CA (2003 - 2006) | ||||
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| Account type: | Paid Account | ||||
