Rebecca Smith's profile

about me... hmm... i'm complex! see hobbies.

i'm a bit of a gourmet geek - never happier than when cooking food, reading about food, planning food, shopping for food, talking about food, and most especially watching people i love enjoying food i made for them. there's something so nuturing about it, so unifying. food is the great leveler.

music is my mood-altering drug of choice - playing it, listening to it, whatever. i love to jam with some friends with my violin or my voice or sometimes a borrowed glockenspiel... i want to learn to play the mandolin, the harmonica, the piano (in more than one key), and the upright bass. i appreciate music that is eclectic, original and has good lyrics, which leads me to my other major interest...

i love words: arranging them, thinking about them, writing them down. i would like to be a better writer. poetry helps me escape my often overly-literal mind. when i write it takes me into the relief of abstraction, where it's easier to breathe. i often write to sleep.

also: culture. worldviews in flux. france. philosophy. Spirit. phases of the moon. herb gardens. art. handmade pasta. travel. silence. mountains and sea in the same place. wine. live jazz. grace. stone streets. living on a houseboat. learning stuff. handwriting. foreign films. being made new.