| General | Veganism/animals rights and welfare; social and environmental responsibility and justice; writing and literature; music (preferably live); visual arts; eastern spirituality and philosophy (esp. Buddhism, Sufism and other non-dualistic perspectives on life); early 20th century Arts and Crafts movement (bungalow/mission style)and the Prairie style of architecture/design; mehndi, the art of henna (see photos of my work posted here); middle eastern "bellydance"; yoga; spinning (of the the stationary bicycle variety) | | Music | The following is a by-no-means-comprehensive, random list of loves in no special order: The Beatles, Radiohead, Cowboy Junkies, Seven Nations, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Natacha Atlas, Billy Bragg, Kool and the Gang, Del Amitri, Ani Difranco, U2, Jeff Buckley, Hothouse Flowers, Seth Bernard, Daisy May, Chicago Afrobeat Project, Young Dubliners, Bob Marley, The Pogues, Frederic Chopin, The Pretenders, Damien Rice, Marvin Gaye, Clumsy Lovers, Ben Harper, Van Morrison, Sade, Quagmyre, Lenny Kravitz, W.A. Mozart, Simon and Garfunkel, Thievery Corporation, Scythian, The Police, Pete Yorn, The Ragbirds, The Smiths, Niyaz, Natalie Merchant, Signal Trip, Root Doctor, Sting, Enter the Haggis, Minibar, The Church | | Movies |  | | Books | Ah, books (stars in my eyes...). This is not even close to an exhaustive list: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin, William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar, Daniel Quinn's Ishmael, E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends, Barbara Kingsolver's Small Wonder; poetry by Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Li-Young Lee, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Maya Angelou, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, Rumi, Gary Snyder (and a plethora of other poets!); cookbooks by Sarah Kramer | | Heroes | Inspiring individuals: Marija and Uldis (the 'rents); vecmama Leokadija (my late grandma); Jason Britton; Mary Alice Williams; the Buddha; Farm Sanctuary and all my people in AR; Walt Whitman; Seth Bernard, May Erlewine and all that is Earthwork Music; Alice Walker; Dennis Kucinich; Vandana Shiva; the great gray owl; Frank Lloyd Wright (though reputedly an egomaniacal prick) |
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