I’ve been wanting to tell you about Havi Brooks ever since I bumbled my way to her blog, Fluent Self. I’m still fathoming her blog, so I really can’t say anything intelligent about her, except that she is unique, deeply playful, and playfully deep. Luckily, she’s written a page about herself.
Filled with good intentions, and thoughtfully making it possible for you to read what she says about herself without having to go to the extremes of clicking on a link, I only partially abashedly copy and paste below:
Trilingual. But silent! On permanent email sabbatical. Obsessed with patterns. Eccentric. Smart-ass.
Things you believe in.
Love. Love is awesome. And it’s inside you which is kind of weird but also really liberating because it’s there whenever you need it.
The generosity of strangers.
The often hard-to-access inner ability to really, truly get to know yourself — with all of your stuck and pain — and like yourself anyway.
Things you don’t believe in.
Mt. Hood.
Things you wish you believed in.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Pastafarianism has a certain appeal.
One thing people might not know about you.
I am extremely passionate about beer.
One thing people probably don’t want to know.
I dislike the word “diphthong” with a passion. In fact, even typing it is creeping me out.
One thing no one should know.
My filing system used to be organized by chakras.
How long have you been doing this?
Oh man. March, 2005. In Berlin. This site went live that August.
I started regularly posting my writing here in June 2008 — see the outrageously packed archives.
In 2010, we opened a secret playground in Portland, and now we’ve expanded into a march larger space called Stompopolis which is the MOST MAGICAL PLACE IN THE WORLD, and that’s where I work/play.
I have no idea what you’re talking about most of the time!
Selma is my business partner. She’s a duck.
The Schmoppet is a schmoppet. He’s purple, charming, and as extroverted as his vocabulary is limited, which is to say: very.See the video of him up at the Frolicsome Bar (Facebook).
Hoppy House is my house. It’s extra-hoppy. Like an IPA. Or a trampoline.
Guns N Rollers is the roller derby team that we’ve sponsored for several years.
Because mindfulness and knocking people down is such a winning combination.
I make up a lot of words. See the glossary for a partial list of Havi-isms.
Life philosophy?
- Napping is good.
- So are pretty much all forms of quiet, intentional, guilt-free navel-lint-contemplation.
- Use your powers for good. Live by what you teach. When you can’t, forgive yourself.
