About Me

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My Interests

spoken word/poetry, jazz, reading, art, playing my flute and sax, writing, spirituality, learning, listening, nature, inner beauty, love, freedom, balance, peace, simplicity, minimalism, yoga

I'd like to meet:

The one who is the reason why I breathe: God. Artists of all kinds: poets, writers, photographers, musicians, painters, and people who live and breathe their art! Beautiful spirits/souls/minds/hearts.

Music:

I love music of all kinds. I am in love with jazz. I also love rock.

Movies:

Love Jones, A beautiful mind, City of God, 300, Mo' Better Blues

Television:

I don't watch TV.

Books:

Bible, John Coltrane: His life and music- Lewis Porter, John Coltrane and the Jazz revolution of the 1960's- Frank Kofsky, Lady sings the blues- Billie Holiday and William Dufty, The Art of war- Sun Tzu, The Souls of Black folks- WEB DuBois, The Soul of Rumi- Coleman Barks, and many more...

Heroes:

Jesus

John Coltrane

Billie Holiday

Rumi
Frida Kahlo
Lovers

My Blog

devotion

i am my artthe paint for the canvasbleeds from my heartthe words i writeare the tears i shedleft over fromthoughts unsaidand into my flutei pour my souli relinquish my breathto music's controli am my ...
Posted by urban butterfly on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:48:00 PST

Musical Inspiration

Of all the tenor saxophone players, I absolutely adore, admire and am deeply inspired by John Coltrane, Johnny Griffin and Stan Getz. I love Stan Getz for his smooth tone, lyrical style and b...
Posted by urban butterfly on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:47:00 PST

Soprillo!

For those of you who do not know, the sopranino is not the smallest saxophone! The soprillo saxophone is the smallest!! The two gentleman standing up are playing soprillos. Read about it h...
Posted by urban butterfly on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:06:00 PST

Bittersweet Symphony

Pain in universal. Everyone, at some point, has experienced pain. But not everyone experiences love. There are some who die having never experienced love in their lives. I used to numb my pain an...
Posted by urban butterfly on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:16:00 PST

Heart

This is one of my favorite all-time rock songs! Seems like I feel this way now... "Alone" by HEARTI hear the ticking of the clock I'm lying here, the room's pitch dark I wonder where you are ...
Posted by urban butterfly on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:40:00 PST

Butterfly’s Mood

could it bethat the reflection I seeis truly me?Too much painfor one girltoo much rainfor one daytoo much sorrowfor her soultoo much painin her wayslowly, her tears flowits the only waythe pain will g...
Posted by urban butterfly on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:57:00 PST

Musing

I love the majestic ocean, with its infinite mysteries within.I love how when I sit on the beach, looking out at the ocean and its vastness, I can't see the end. I can't see the land that's on t...
Posted by urban butterfly on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:50:00 PST

Im practicing, MAN!!! LOL!

This is too funny...but I can dig it!! From the Spike Lee Joint, "Mo' Better Blues" We see things not as they are, but as we are. -Talmud...
Posted by urban butterfly on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:01:00 PST

Group Sax!!!!

Posted by urban butterfly on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:55:00 PST

sea of me

delving deeper into soul seeing things it only knows feeling things it only sees wondering what's happened to me I am lost within myself meandering in this wilderness breathing life into m...
Posted by urban butterfly on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:55:00 PST