Angela Woodcock:
CLASS OF 1987
North Hagerstown High SchoolClass of 1987
Hagerstown, MD
Western Heights Middle SchoolClass of 1983
Hagerstown, MD
Angela's Story
Angela is from Hagerstown, Maryland. Angela's schools include North High School. Angela works(ed) at The Inner Temple, Great Spirits Ranch, The Inner Temple.
Music Angela likes includes Mike Burke, Fantuzzi Music, Julia Marie Faussone. Books Angela likes include The Spiral Dance, Into the Green. Movies Angela likes include Discover Me!, One Day On Earth, The Family Tree. TV shows Angela likes include Off the Map.
One of Angela's favorite quotes is:"It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know
what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s
longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will
risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the
adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want
to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you
have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and
closed from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without
moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with JOY, mine or your own; if you can
dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of
your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be
realistic, or to remember the limitations of being a human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you’re telling me is true. I
want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself;
if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own
soul.
I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore be
trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty
every day, and if you can source your life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and
still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the
full moon “YES!”
It doesn’t interest me in knowing where you live or how much money
you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief
and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be
done for the children.
It doesn’t interest me who you are, how you came to be here. I want
to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not
shrink back.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or whom you have studied. I
want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else fades
away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you
truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
Oriah
Mountain Dreamer, Native American Elder, May 1994
My love, you are a river fed by many streams.
I bless all who have shaped you,
The lovers whose delights still dance patterns on your back,
Those who carved your channels deeper, broader, wider,
Whitewater and backwater lovers,
Swamp lovers, sun-warmed estuary lovers,
Lovers with surface tension,
Lovers like boulders,
Like ice forming and breaking,
Lovers that fill and spill with the tides.
I bless those who have taught you
and those who have pleased you
and those who have hurt you,
All those who have made you who you are.'"
-Starhawk, from "The Fifth Sacred Thing"
"We, the undisciplined in discernment of the inward, knowing nothing of it, run after the outer, never understanding that it is the inner which stirs us; we are like one who sees his own reflection but not realizing whence it comes goes in pursuit of it."
-Plotinus (A.D. 205-270)
"Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man – for precisely the same reason."
- Douglas Noel Adams, author of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."
-Jack Kerouac
Nature, whose sweet rains fall on the just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
- Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"
To the citizens of the United States of America:
In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates fo president of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will r...Expand for more
esume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except
Kansas, which she does not fancy). Your new prime minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary.
1. Then look up aluminum, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.
2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour', 'colour', behaviour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix
-ize will be replaced by the suffix -ise. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up 'vocabulary').
3. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication.
There is no such thing as US English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of -ize. You will relearn your original national anthem, “God Save the Queen”.
4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.
5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists demonstrates that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist
then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.
6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
7. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.
8. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
9. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been
calling gasoline)-roughly $6/US gallon. Get used to it.
10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.
11. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. South African beer is also acceptable as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting Nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of British Commonwealth - see what it did for them.
12. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters.
Watching Andie McDowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater, see also Kevin Costner as Robin Hood.
13. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping
for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies). Don't try Rugby - the South Africans and Kiwis will thrash you, like they regularly thrash us.
14. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans
first to take the sting out of their deliveries.
15. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.
16. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).
17. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 pm with proper cups, never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; strawberries in season.
God save the Queen. Only He can.
- John Cleese".
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