a new perspective on a very old world::: yoga, music, art, life as performance art, ritual, fire, theatre, street theatre, contact improv, dialogues (as in excellent conversation), magik, poetry, trees, the amazing human body, sistersong, the Green Man, gardening- organic, herbal, and social, expanding consciousness through many means, dance, drums, bikes, bikes as revolutionary urban redemption, releasing the illusion of ownership, love free of attachment, water of life, life, love, hugs, dark chocolate and love making, kissing in public, radical intimacy, the bliss of this perfect moment, the quantum field, deep drums, raw vegan food, conscious living, fulfilling potential.
other spiritual beings enjoying this delicious human adventure.::: yogis, dancers, musicians, poets, performers, storytellers, healers, lovers, clowns, gypsies, warrior women, men who love Goddess, reclusive hermetic mystics, extroverted street prophets, wild people tamed just enough to have a conversation, shamans living in the world, heroes and sheroes in costume or not, seeds spreading their first sprouts to the light, ancient Redwood trees..... i love all of you.
it has to make me want to dance. feel through the music.:::first, the drums. then a voice in the wilderness. the flute, the violin. a bit of brass. the wild howl of a soul unfurled through the mouth. jazz, jazz, jazz, especially Coltrane or Davis, Ella or Billie. world beats, African or Indian. almost anything with a harp. later you can add some downtempo trip hop. really good psytrance. yay for Michael Franti and Ani Difranco. minimal techno is a new favorite. ambient fusion IDM even is cool, but give me your drum or guitar and my voice anyday. i do love to scat.
last one I saw was ' the fountain', before that 'an inconvenient truth' ...though 'the dark crystal' and 'labyrinth' are still pretty cool.
i gave mine away on the day i decided to create my worldview, not buy someone else's
Rumi. check out Rob Brezsny's Pronoia, or anything by Deepak Chopra, Starhawk, John Irving, Tom Robbins, or J.K. Rowling. Travis Culley's book about bike messengers. "Gossips, Gorgons, and Crones" by Jane Caputi. Books about yoga, Buddhism, and Goddess spirituality, mostly, but I do enjoy an occasional historical romance or sci-fi fantasy. and poetry - Whitman, Ginsburg and all the beats, Rumi... Thich Nhat Hahn's "Peace is Every Step" ; "The Path of Practice: a Woman's Book of Healing with Food, Breath, and Sound" by Bri. Maya Tiwari (Mother Maya), and the yoga sutras, and I'll probably re-read Harry Potter soon. Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces" at the moment it's Iyengar's "Tree of Yoga"
all of you willing to live the deep truth. we all fear, the only difference between a hero and a coward is that the (s)hero does it anyway.