Name: Bonnie
Birthdate: November 1963
Birthplace: small town in southeastern PA
Current Residence: western NY
Languages: English, ein bischen Deutsch, my kids’
Ethnic heritage: mostly German, some English?
Family stats: one husband; three children ages 9, 6, and 3
Education: public schooled K-12; BA in trumpet performance from the Eastman School of Music, significant coursework in music education, some art history study. Life :-)
Occupation: 98% SAHHWM (stay-at-home homeschooling wife and mother), 2% professional musician, private music lesson teacher
Hobby: blogging...also photography and hiking
Denomination: I attend an Evangelical Covenant Church
Testimony: the Hound of Heaven caught up with me; I met a person who demonstrated agape love
Favorite book: besides the Bible: tie between Sheldon Vanauken’s Severe Mercy and Thomas Merton’s Selected Poems
Favorite author: C. S. Lewis, of course :-). I liked Peter Straub and John Knowles in my younger days
Style of music: anything of quality (except maybe country-western), though I suppose I should say “classical” since that’s what I mostly do
Favorite musicians: Bela Fleck, Gil Shaham
Favorite visual artist: the Dutch masters
Last Good Book Read: A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
Last Good Movie Seen (in entirety): Monsters, Inc. Would like to see "A Beautiful Mind" sometime
Favorite movie: (of the few that I can actually remember) Princess Bride
Childhood Memory: lying on the grass listening to an airplane & savoring the breeze and outdoor fragrances. Being blown away by the Ice Follies.
First Car: Chevy Luv truck
Inspiration: people of integrity and true faith, staggering skill and accomplishment
Personality type: ISTJ (maybe...the only sure part is the “I”)
Pet Peeve: ineptness combined with hubris
Cuisine: Thai
Favorite color: blue
Favorite flowers: all of them
Favorite time of day: the time I usually post :-) (late night)
Favorite season: summer
Favorite place to be: home; with people I love
Unhealthy obsession: worrying whether I’m saying or doing something really stupid or overlooking the obvious
Weaknesses: tend to assume the worst, am easily overloaded, tend to overload myself, am absent-minded, too inspiration-driven, impatient with my family, etc.
Aversions: (nothing out of the ordinary)
Long term goals and/or dreams:
- know God better
- see my kids grow up and have their own families & all of us remain close as a family
- maintain lifelong, meaningful friendships
- do a cross-country educational trip in an RV
- do overseas missions work
- have time to read every book I want to read (will never happen...)
- improve at everything I do; never stop learning
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Everything you never wanted to know (about me)
Bonnie, There are a lot of things here that I didn't know about you, and I've never even heard of your favorite authors. Fun! You should do a musical blog post sometime, complete with audio!
I can hear the baritone from Handel's Messiah singing, "The trumpet shall sound!" Duh, duh, duh, Duh, DUh, DUH, "And the dead shall be raised."
Posted by: Hannah at July 31, 2005 10:05 PMBonnie....wow! This is way too cool - I've been playing trumpet for 20+ years! Before I devoted my time to theological studies, I played regularly. I'm so glad we discovered this commonality.
Posted by: Sarah at August 1, 2005 4:28 AMI really enjoyed "A beautiful Mind" myself and would recommend it. It's very good acting from Russell Crowe - quite different for him. He's a Kiwi but not all that popular here as he is too fisty. But we liked him in that movie.
Beautiful minds... and what they go through to fulfil their designed purpose.
Enjoyed your succinct testimony. Reminds me how to impact someone's life.
The Chevy Luv brought back memories of learning to drive a standard w/my bro in an Izuzu Pup.
I, too, am a night owl. Would like to learn more on sleep patterns. Of course, the night owl gig isn't conducive to this time in my life.
Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Lexie at August 1, 2005 12:13 PMBonnie, I forget to mention that "A Beautiful Mind" is one of my favorite movies. Definitely you should watch it.
Posted by: Hannah at August 1, 2005 4:36 PMBonnie, you will always have a special place in my heart because of our shared love of A Severe Mercy :)
I give A Beautiful Mind a big thumbs up also.
Thanks for sharing more of yourself with us.
Posted by: Marla at August 1, 2005 6:16 PMSarah -- no way! That is *way* cool that you play trumpet.
Hannah, I considered offering to host the Christian Carnival, thinking I'd organize the posts thematically in sonata-rondo form or something like that. Maybe someday :-)
Handel's Messiah definitely ranks up there -- the Halleluia Chorus has a pretty good trumpet part too; I usually get to play it once a year or so.
Lexie: let's hear it for truck-drivin' women! LOL I still drive shift, although it will probably be obsolete by the time we need a new car!
Marla, Severe Mercy supplied for me the missing links between Christianity and the aesthetic way I understood the world at the time. It's a Catholic sort of sacramental understanding (that I think Protestantism could use more of!)
That's it -- gotta rent "A Beautiful Mind!" Thanks, guys. (Haven't seen a "deep" movie in at least 10 years...)
Posted by: Bonnie at August 1, 2005 7:41 PMYesss, A Beautiful Mind is absolutely captivating. Man, I'm going to have to watch it now.
Your unhealthy obsession is one of mine as well...when you figure out how to remedy it, do share. :-/
"Never stop learning" is a wonderful goal.
Posted by: Laura at August 2, 2005 4:38 AMSounds like you have a better handle on yourself than I, or probably most people, do. God uses our weaknesses, as well as our strengths.
Posted by: Martin LaBar at August 2, 2005 5:14 AMLaura, what say you guys all come over to my house & we'll watch "Beautiful Mind" together & eat chicken wings? (OK, popcorn :-) )
Martin, thank you for that beautiful comment. Handle on myself? Dunno about that; but thank you for reminding me of the completeness of our redemption. (You're welcome to do that anytime :-) ).
Posted by: Bonnie at August 2, 2005 7:54 PM"A Severe Mercy" was required reading when I home schooled my oldest two for high school. They both loved it. My daughter fell head over heels in love with Sheldon VanAuken. My son spent last semester studying in England, and wanted to find St. Udio.
I used to be a night owl too. Until I would read stuff I wrote late at night, and it didn't make much sense (like now) in the morning.
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