Swimming in blue seas, traveling, singing, matsubayashi-shorin ryu karate "the ecstacy of sweat", food, water, my ancestors, compassion, full moons, giving thanks, silence, my bo, world affairs, deserted beaches, mopping my floors, music and technology, laughter, driving on country roads, writing, reasoning, dancing, intelligent minds, creative beings, Xaymaca.
Visionaries
Tis true, music makes my world go round. I can't possibly name them alll but here are a few....Nina Simone, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Fela Kuti, Cassandra Wilson, Hugh Masekela, Dangelo, Tony Allen, Burning Spear, John Coltrane, Elis Regina, Ali Farka Toure, Sade, Lenny Kravitz, Midnite, Common, Annie Lenox, Finotee, Jr. Delgado, Sizzla, Third World, James Brown, Miles Davis, Roots, Cesaria Evora, Baden Powell, Jobim, Randy Weston, Maxwell, Jacob Miller, Lauryn Hill, Erkykah Badu, Astrud and Bebel Gilberto, The Congos, Geraldo Azevedo, Santana, Lee Scratch Perry, Roy Ayers, King Tubby, U2, Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Amel Larriuex, Roy Ayers, Abyssinians, King Tubby, Luciano, Roberta Flack, JDavey, the Pimento Band at every corny hotel in the Caribbean, all the Dj's who make me move my dancing feet and of course...nature's symphony.
Kebra Negast, Zen in the Martial Arts, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Shogun, Wide Sargasso Sea, Manchild in the Promised Land, Women Who Run With Wolves, A Room Of One's Own, Cane, The Famished Road, The Alchemist, Story of the Jamaican People, The Prophet, Earthseed
Anyone who walks the warrior path being revolutionary in anyway they can possibly be.