April 25, 2010

• Sunday Shoutout: AmeSour

  This week I am shoutin' out for AmeSour
  
  
  Nancy is bright and creative,not afraid to state her opinion,
  I love to see that in young people... that bold honesty.
  I just love her.

  1.Can you tell me a bit about yourself, where you grew up etc?
  Well, my name's Nancy. I'm nineteen, and I grew up in Ohio. Suburban Ohio. White paneled houses surrounded by cornfields that get magically plowed every spring and harvested every fall. People kind of assume I'm a farm girl when I tell them I'm from Ohio, but I've never been on a tractor and I've never milked a cow and I haven't the faintest idea what to do with a scythe.

  2.What brought you to Xanga?
  Everyone else had one. Then they all disappeared and I was left, because I am stubborn and I like my routines. =P

  3.Have you read any post that has had an impact on your life?
  Very many, though it's hard to come up with one specifically. I remember Victoria (TheMarriedFreshman) once wrote a post written especially for me to cheer me up. In it she had a lot of advice and kind words to say, and that one's stuck with me.

  I also am especially impacted by the poetry here. Though I can't think of one post of hers in particular, MoistLipsChappedHearts has always impacted me. She was the one who got me to start writing any poetry at all - I read hers and said, "I want to write like that."

  Also, JustPlainMorgie once wrote a post called "Insects Insects Everywhere" that I think I read about a thousand times. She tagged me in it, though I'm still not entirely sure as to why, but I'm glad she did because I connected to it very much.

  4.What do you hope that people see in you?
  Honestly, this is a pretty tough question. Part of me hopes people see someone who is intelligent and kind. Lithium98, a close friend of mine, recently said that I have a "f*** off attitude" but am still kind, and I think that's what I'm going for. I would like people to like me, but also know that I'm not going to change for them.

  But one the flip side of the coin, I also wish sometimes that people would realize that I am a very flawed person. I'm not perfect, and if you're expecting perfection, you're going to be sorely disappointed. In fact, it might be very dangerous to expect someone like me to always be a good person - I'm not, and I think I've hurt a lot of people that way.

  5.What do you most like and dislike in a person?
  I most like someone different. There are a lot of things that attract me to a person, but the most interesting to me is someone who is unlike anyone I've ever met before, for whatever reason.

  I dislike most when someone's unnecessarily rude to people like waitresses or cashiers. Even though it's kind of a small thing, I feel it's indicative of a lot of things I find unattractive in a person: immaturity, arrogance, lack of compassion, and being completely unaware of their own life and the way things are connected to each other.

  6. a)Who are your fav authors, poets?
  Wow. Okay. This could take forever or I could give you the shortened version.
  My favorite author is Tom Robbins. I can't get enough of him.
  My favorite poet... that one's tougher. A lot of it depends on who I've just discovered,
  but I'd have to say Edna St. Vincent Millay has so far been
  a pretty constant figure in my poetry reading life.
   
  b)What are some of your fav books, poems ,writings ?
  My favorite book is Fierce Individuals Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins, but I also love things like Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice, Lord of the Rings and Princess Bride, Ender's Game and His Dark Materials. My favorite poems are The Man with the Blue Guitar by Wallace Stevens, The Pusher byMaya Angelou (weird, I know, since it's about Black power, but... I just like it, haha),
  and anything by Millay.

  7.What is your favorite quote?
  "This too shall pass."
  
  8.What are your hobbies/interests,collections?
  My main hobby is writing, but that's kind of a given. I also like gardening and being outside. I read like I'm getting paid for it. I collect manatees - stuffed ones, little figurines, etc.

  9.What is your favorite time of day?
  I like early morning, right after I've woken up and can still lay in bed and think.

  10.What are your favorite websites to look at?
  Xanga, obviously. I'm on Xanga more than I should be.
  I also really like certain webcomics like asofterworld.com and harkavagrant.com (this one's especially fun if you like history, haha).
  Other than that, I don't do a lot of browsing. Facebook. I should probably mention facebook,
  if I'm gonna be completely honest. =P

  11.What ideas or thoughts have helped you to become who you are
  that you would like for others to benefit from?
  Ha. This is an interesting question... I'm not really sure who I am or if anyone would benefit from being who I am. I hesitate to give advice that important and all encompassing. Something that's helped me along to become who I am may drive someone else in the exact opposite direction of who they are supposed to be.

  If I had to pick, I'd go back to my favorite quote. "This too shall pass." Because it will. Nothing - nothing at all - lasts forever. There is nothing infinite.
  
  I asked her to share a piece of her writing with us

  Purple Heart
  When you tell me you love me
  you are like a broken-hearted soldier
  with a bayonet in his side
  who's realized that death is
  inevitable
  with only enough time to tell
  a simple line
  to a medic with ears
  that burn with all the
  deathbed secrets he's
  kept so far away from his heart
  so he doesn't view your organs
  as anything more than machine -
  you tell him to find me and give me
  one last message that you are sorry
  that you never could look me in the eye
  and say yourself.

  And even though you've never
  fought a war or
  killed a man,
  and our only enemy is
  the broken furnace
  which we fight with blankets
  and fevered love,
  you still whisper with soft urgency to me
  the way blood gurgles from
  the mouth of a
  freedom-fighting man.

  And I wonder, not for the first time
  if the words' only purpose
  is because you don't want to have
  lived an empty life,
  and not because you actually have found
  a way to fill it.

  Past Sunday Shoutouts HERE
  

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