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| User: | lizardek (1235289)  lizardek's obiter dictum
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| Name: | zird is the word | |||||||
| Website: | ek family | |||||||
| Location: | Flyinge, Skåne, Sweden | |||||||
| Birthdate: | 08-10 | |||||||
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| Bio: | Motor City baby, Air Force brat Leo, born in the Year of the Dragon Lizardek on Twitter Nutshell Bio: Met and married my Swede, Anders, in Chicago. We moved to Sweden in January 1997, where I promptly got pregnant with Martin who was born at the end of the year. This threw my schedule for learning Swedish and getting a job out the window, so we decided to get all the baby stuff over with, and Karin was born in 1999. I worked for an Ericsson company for 4.5 years and now work for an up-and-coming OEM. I keep extremely busy outside of work with the AWC Malmö, choir and a hectic social calendar. :) Findus the Cat, as used in my userpic and header, is the creation of Sven Nordqvist. User Icons For My LJ Friends :) What I've been reading lately My Amazon wish list Alibris Books you thought you'd never find BookBrowse Don't judge a book by its cover, read it for yourself WhichBook Gives you book recommendations based on YOUR criteria Languages There are no handles upon a language Whereby men take hold of it And mark it with signs for its remembrance. It is a river, this language, Once in a thousand years Breaking a new course Changing its way to the ocean. It is mountain effluvia Moving to valleys And from nation to nation Crossing borders and mixing. Languages die like rivers. Words wrapped round your tongue today And broken to shape of thought Between your teeth and lips speaking Now and today Shall be faded hieroglyphics Ten thousand years from now. Sing—and singing—remember Your song dies and changes And is not here tomorrow Any more than the wind Blowing ten thousand years ago. ~~Carl Sandburg Kafka on Books: Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves. What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is what I believe. Bachelard on Words: I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.
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| Memories: | 50 entries | |||||||
| Pictures: | over 500 public | |||||||
| Interests: | 148: a capella music, alphonse mucha, alternative worlds and histories, an organized life, animation film festivals, anne mccaffrey, anne of green gables, annie dillard, architectural details, art deco, art nouveau, artichokes and avocados, barbershop quartets, barry moser, batik, beauty and the beast, being surrounded by books, belleek antique open-weave porcelain, bizarro, black and white cats, books books books books, build me up buttercup, calaisa, calligraphy and penmanship, calvin & hobbes, calvin and hobbes, castle ruins, cats, chicago, children's books, children's literature, chocolate-covered raisins, choirs of angels, cicely barker's flower fairies, cinnamon sugar toast, coca cola, connie willis, cookie monster's googley eyes, crosshatching and pointillism, cultural differences, dangerous liaisons, diana gabaldon, diana wynne jones, dictionaries, dodie smith, eeyore, embroidery, endless body massages (mine), etymology, eyvind earle, fairy tale illustration, fantasy and speculative fiction, fonts and typefaces, four part harmony, games, glass bird swizzlesticks, good graphic design, greek mythology, hair the musical, historical fiction, i capture the castle, ignoring life for reading, illustration, indigo girls, james tiptree jr, jonathan carroll, judith tarr, just about everything disney, kd lang, knowing names of things, languages and linguistics, leo and diane dillon, leo sun virgo moon, leonardo da vinci, little house, madeleine l'engle, make believe, making lots of lists, maurice sendak, mellow and melodic music, michelangelo, michelle pfeiffer, mindgames with small animals, moorcroft, moose, my grandma's gingersnaps, myths and legends, natural fats, natural history, not procrastinating, obsessive checking of friendslist, pamela dean, peridots and pearls, pettson and findus, philip pullman, photography, pixar, pretty pink dahlias, puns, putting words together well, quilling, rainer maria rilke, reese's fast break bars, robert a. heinlein, robin hobb, robin hood, robin mckinley, rooster artwork, rutger hauer, salmon nigiri and sushi, sandcastles, scotland and scottish history, sesame street songs, sharon k. penman, sheri s. tepper, siamese cats, siberian cats, singing, sleeping in, songs from musicals, spelling, sudden bursts of enthusiasm, sunshine on my face, surfing illustration websites, swallows and amazons, sweden swedes and swedish, taking time off, tapestry, the changing seasons, the chronicles of narnia, the intricacies of english, the smell of bookstores, the things people say, thing-finding, tiffany stained glass, time travel, travel writing, trees and leaves, typography, unconventionalism, veritable plethoras, watching pairs figure skating, william bouguereau, winging it, wizard of oz, word games, word origins, writing and reading poetry | |||||||
| Schools: | Peter Crump Elementary School - Montgomery, AL (1975 - 1976) AFNORTH International School - Brunssum, Limburg, Netherlands (1976 - 1979) Kaiserslautern American High School - Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (1979 - 1982) Michigan State University - East Lansing, MI (1982 - 1986) Folkuniversitetet - Malmö - Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden (1997) | |||||||
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| Account type: | Permanent Account | |||||||
