Wondering Who You Are
SONYA LEA
- Location
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Birthday
- January 12
- Company
- Sonya Lea
- Bio
- Sonya Lea works with entrepreneurs and artists to envision their wild lives. She has received three screenwriting awards, including the Nicholl fellowship (QF), and she has written for film, television, magazines and anthologies. She has also written a film about something we do not often have a window into -- what happens in a relationship after a brain injury. She lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband Richard Bandy. Contact her at www.sonyalea.net.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Girls Gone Wild
January 19, 2012 07:38PM - Hereafter, Awash In Shades of
Grey
November 08, 2010 08:56AM - Wild Tigress
February 16, 2010 08:25PM - Wild Underbelly
February 03, 2010 01:13PM - Wild Death
January 28, 2010 10:30AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I've never heard of the
"prisoner's dilemma" but I
have been
reading
Se…”
January 23, 2012 09:27PM - “The amazing photo is
Graciela Iturbide, Angel
Woman,
1979.”
January 19, 2012 08:11PM - “Your passion for people
results in great preparation,
and it
shows.”
December 09, 2010 09:36AM - “Lachlan, We were in
Rishikesh for the day; it was
the most
western experience
of…”
October 18, 2010 10:33AM - “Thanks for connecting
after reading my stories on
the
pilgrimage to the Kumbh
Mel…”
February 02, 2010 01:42AM
SONYA LEA's Links
Girls Gone Wild
Feministing recently shared a girl’s precocious opinion via you tube, with the headline: “Thirteen year old badass on slut shaming.” Composed of diligent research, and quoting the founders of the “Slut Walk,” a protest that arose out… Read full post »
Hereafter, Awash In Shades of Grey
If only a character as strong as the great necromancer himself, Jacob Marley, had been written into Clint Eastwood’s tepid film HEREAFTER, then perhaps we’d care about the characters who live on the fringes of death. Instead,…
Wild Tigress
Wild Underbelly
Photo by Vandana Rajagopalan
The Stain -- On the morning of the first bath of the Maha Kumbh Mela, when we had returned from the/… Read full post »
The Buddhist’s Kashi. The Hindu’s Holy City. The citizen’s Banaras. Varanasi: the oldest city in the world, from the first millennium BCE. Named for the confluence of the Ganges with the old rivers, Varana and Assi, now the ghats known as the beginning and the… Read full post »
Bathing with Millions at the Kumbh Mela
Photos by the BBC
On the day before we are to take the bath at the Kumbh Mela, we discover that the town’s security situation has changed. Our guide, Mr. Parikshit Joshi drives us around the site so we can see what we are in for. The main… Read full post »
Becoming Naked as a Kumbha Mela Pilgrim
This morning I board a plane for Mother India. The notion of traveling to this exotic country began ten years ago when my Zen master, Shifu, also known as Dr. Kim Han Suk, suggested that India was one of those places I could clear my familial karma. Not just… Read full post »
Wild Build Part Deux
Signs of autumn around here include pie pumpkins overflowing a basket, and blankets lying on chairs, and a pantry full of sauces, relishes, chutneys and jams. And sadly, the guys I have spent my summer hanging out with showing up just once or twice a week, while our construction project finishes… Read full post »
Building The Man Cave
The Wild Build started with a simple intention my guy and I set three years ago – to create a sanctuary in our basement for our friends and family. In January of this year the cash arrived, and by the spring we were designing the space on long walks at Green… Read full post »
Wild Encouragement
Art by Teesha Moore.
As part of my Wild Work, I pay attention to synchronicities. Words assert themselves into my life and tend to lead somewhere. In the past week, I’ve heard several people discuss concerns with ‘writer’s block.’ Last night, in my new writing g… Read full post »
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