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I had a nice job
working for Ted Turner on the world's first-ever cable soap opera, The
Catlins, as a regular player (and their first villainess!).
I married
when I was nineteen and had my first son by the time I was twenty-one.
He was born in NY city, where I continued my acting career. Later, we
moved to Los Angeles, where my second son was born. Unfortunately, the
marriage didn't last and my husband and I separated. Professional
makeup artistry, and several other jobs in film and television
production combined with the acting, kept helping the ends meet until, I
guess, I just over did it. My arms and hands pretty much shut down
from "over use" and I was yanked out of a lot of what my life was
about.
After a lot
of inner searching I realized it was time to do what my gut was gnawing
at me about....service to others and a more balanced, rural and holistic
way of living. So, I left California and founded a non-profit out in
Amish country. I continue to write songs and engulf myself with music,
but my life is also full of critters, dirt, grasses, clay, briars,
branches and pond water. I love it, and the songs are my personal
outlets for expression, right alongside the sculptures. Even when they
get a little wacky and silly, emotional or passionate, making me more
and more vulnerable, it still feels worth it to me...all of it. I'm
completely and fully alive, and that's more than I've been in the past.
In 2004 I became familiar with alpacas and fell in
love with them. I own and operate Close-Knit Alpacas and a marketing
"arm" of Close-Knit called "Alpacas in the USA!" Promoting and
marketing other people's alpacas has become a specialty and I do enjoy
it very much...plus, earnings from that work help support the land and
non-profit, animals and all that is here that I'm about.
Thanks so much for
visiting this site! I truly hope that something here on this site
strikes your heart and takes you some place very special, personal and
powerful. The gratitude I feel for all that the other amazing people
put into the making of my first CD is more than any words I can come up
with could describe. Listen to the CD and you'll know exactly what I'm
talking about (lol!)! I'm also truly grateful for my long-time, dear
friend, Morgana, for her love, support and introduction to her awesome
"Financial Alchemy," which is making it possible for me to continue
living my dream here on Moon Ivy Hill.
Peace on this good,
red road... Aho!
Wren
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