Good Evening!

My name is Kjirsten. Patchouli Jones is my mysterious traveling name ;) or stage name. or pen name. not real. Don't worry, you're reading the right blog.

I ride a bicycle. I'm a massage therapist & a musician, I write songs about cats and other small animals, I love vanilla rooibos tea, songs in 3/4 time, reading books, old books, marking them up, dipping the pages in the bathtub, coloring in them and the comfort of having a book in my bag if ever a lonely moment may occur. I love to read nonsense fiction and children's poetry. I love the classics. Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens...or any kind of book about anything. About healing. And God. And love. And real things. And poems by Billy Collins, Rumi and Rilke. I love reading aloud with whomever I can convince that it's not only for young children and the elderly. I love goat cheese and group naps, barefoot hiking in the mountains, the way a hum feels in my chest, grizzly beards, a good long slow stretch, comfortable pauses, Jesus Christ, silence and solitude, Thai food, soft things, Erik Satie, noises of appreciation, moonlit swims and bluegrassy men harmonies.

I cannot properly wink. Still.