Biography: Tamara Sumner

Writing my Bio was the first time I was ever able to finish a 'time line' of my life. It is now posted on the blog spot for any who are interested. I do need to correct typo's and add more juicy tid-bits...Now that I have exposed myself with no shame, it is tme to move on. Thank you to all who were so welcoming! Progress, people, progress! FAVORITES: *this list will alter as I recall things! : MOVIES: Manny & Lo, Harold and Maude, The Savages, Overboard, Lars & the Real Girl , The Sundowners, Bringing Up Baby, Princess Bride, love song for bobby long, Love Actually, Shakespeare in Love, Winter People, Friendly Persuasion, BOOKS: The Shipping News, I Know This Much is True, Outlander, Bean Trees, Animal Dreams,Pigs in Heaven, Peace Like a River, Back Roads, list goes on... GURU'S: Rumi, Deepak Chopra, Gary Zukav, Confuscious, Ben Franklin, Gandhi, Wayne Dyer, Hafiz, Paul Ferrini, Shakti Gawain, Louise Hay, FICTION AUTHORS: Anne Tyler, Annie Proulx, Wally Lamb, Barbara Kingsolver, Ken Follett, Tom Robbins, Tawni O'Dell, MUSIC: Pearl Jam, Blue October, Stevie Ray Vaughn, JD Fortune, Chris Cornell, Don Williams, Garth Brooks, Little Feat, Grateful Dead, Etta James, Elvis, Alice in Chains, Frank Zappa, Roger Miller, Jim Stafford, Ray Stevens, INXS, U2, Elvis Costello, The Offspring, Tool, LINES: BOOK: `Dog Fart Fells Family of Four.' ~Annie Proulx; The Shipping News BOOK: '...was the type to believe in newspaper horiscopes." ~ Annie Proulx SONG: 'I love to laugh,ha ha ha ha, long and loud and clear...I love to laugh, ha ha ha ha, it's my favorite time of the year!"~ Mary Poppins SONG: "I don't believe that heaven waits, for only those who congregate...I'd like to think of God as love, s/he's down below and up above, watching people everywhere s/he knows who does and doesn't care, and I'm an ordinary (wo)man sometimes I wonder who I am, but I believe in love...and I believe in you!"~Don Williams SONG: "Well, ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd, can't roller skate in a buffalo herd, can't roller skate in a buffalo herd, but you can die happy if you've a mind to. All ya gotta do is put your mind to it, buckle down, buckle down, do it do it do it!" ~Roger Miller Things to do: Love my children, my dog, friends and family. Especially Mamaw...OOOH! I do love me some Mamaw! Sit quiet and watch nature all around me Listen to my childrens laughter Paint, draw, crafty stuff I am a 'mad' recycler! My daughter state "OMG, she recycles everything!!! I, in obvious great mental health, reply '2012, Sissy...all your fault!" I think she thinks I'm sarcastic? I write when my mind lets me I garden when my body lets me Mostly, I am honest. With myself anyway. Life has taught me to not be shy when it comes to letting myself in on my own secrets. Sometimes I struggle. But it gets better. It always gets better. OK, different anyway! My history, the PTSD & traumatic brain injury have taught me several things. I see through social tripe in an instant. I am in every essence incapable of conformity to any social program, although I support several in many ways...it is the 'think like we do' 'drive what we drive' wear what we wear' people who I shy away from the most. Sometimes truth is pretty, and sometimes not so much. But it is here, it is what we have and it is ours to make of it what we will. I did not join this site to be a guru or to find one. I hate tofu. I did not join this site to make a ton of friends or become a prom queen...but when I looked around this site, I found a whole bunch of integrity. I found people who were capable of honest internal analysis. Honorable people. Not just talking heads. Refreshing! So, anyway, what I like to do is laugh. I like to spend tme with open creative types. I like to read (great thing about TBI: old favorites are brand new again!) I like to believe the best about people. I like psychology. I like the thought of checking into the energy train of the universe and raising my vibration every time I free my mind enough to do so. That I have the power to do so. OK, I think I am talking too much again and might have wondered off the reservation. OH well.