Vegetarianism and vegan cooking/baking, perpetuating peace, love and tolerance, animals/nature and environmentalism/respect for all life, feminism, human and animal rights, pagan spirituality, healing herbs, holistic health practices and doing my part to subvert the dominant paradigm.
Also...thrift store shopping, scavenging and hand-me-downs, making art, designing jewelry, knitting and other crafty diy, tattoos, live performances, ravens, serpents, felines, colored pencils, mossy green everywhere, the smell of earth baking in the sun, organics, tarot and other forms of divination, thunderstorms, trees, cherry blossoms, crystals and stones, The Wheel of the Year/seasons, hot chai in the winter, iced coffee in the summer, festivals and fairs (not state fairs, though...the livestock part bugs the shit out of me), butterflies, toads, lilies, orchids, darkest chocolate, blood oranges, pineapple passion fruit sorbetto, eating slowly...savoring, dancing, the sound of rough surf, the magic of the forest, echoes, deja vu, henna, waterfalls, the phases of the Moon, simplicity on the outside veiling the complexity on the inside, The X Factor, caring for loved ones, knowing I'm loved, feeling sexy, making people laugh, laughing 'til I cry, poetry, patchouli and vetiver, feeling balanced and healthy, being in each moment, the alternate reality of dreams.
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Compassionate, creative, beautiful beings...
Lately I've been listening to Kimya Dawson, The Be Good Tanyas, Scout Niblett, Tegan and Sara, Erykah Badu, Ani DiFranco, The Licks, Betty, Joan Jett, Mazzy Star, Joss Stone (effin' wow!), Cocorosie, Eliza Gilkyson, Sleater-Kinney and Mediaeval Baebes. I also love hand drums, woodwinds, accordions, concertinas, fiddles, cellos and bagpipes. I dig all kindsa music...world, jazz, punk, R&B, 60s, 70s, 80s, classical...
Tegan and Sara
Ani DiFranco
Erykah Badu
The Be Good
Tanyas
Cocorosie
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Some of my favorites include...Secretary. Sex, Lies and Videotape. Donnie Darko. Tank Girl. The Color Purple. Hideous Kinky. Frida. What The @%&*# Do We (k)now? Breakfast at Tiffany's. The Gods Must Be Crazy. Run Lola Run. Red. Blue. White. 12 Monkeys. The Craft. Go Further. The Big Lebowski. Little Miss Sunshine. Paper Moon. Ghost Dog. Blade Runner. Bound. Edward Scissorhands. The Virgin Suicides. Serenity. Pulp Fiction. The Lost Boys. Waiting For The Light. Me and You and Everyone We Know. Kissing Jessica Stein. Fight Club. Practical Magic. Pieces of April. Year of the Dog. When Night Is Falling. The Golden Compass. Juno. I mostly like movies that are atmospheric and magical or transformational, somehow...
I haven't turned on the tv in months, except to watch videos (I don't even do that as often anymore.) I have purchased and watched seasons of The L Word, Firefly, and the new Dr. Who series and sometimes rent other shows, like Torchwood and Weeds. I especially don't miss the stupid, shallow, sexist, consumerism pushing commercials.
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I love to read. A few of my favorites books are...Drawing Down the Moon, The Chalice and The Blade, Spiral Dance, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Wicked, White Oleander, Catcher In The Rye, The House Of The Spirits, The Edible Woman, Practical Magic, Almanac of the Dead, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love In The Time Of Cholera, Holy Cow!, 1984, and The Mists Of Avalon. Crafting books like...Loop-d-Loop, Get Your Crochet On, Knitters' Lib and vegan recipe books like...Vegan with a Vengeance and La Dolce Vegan.
Magazines I read regularly include Circle, Knit1, Interweave Knits/Crochet, Herbivore and VegNews.
Vegan Goddess, Sarah Kramer
I admire Gloria Steinem, Angela Davis, Julia Butterfly Hill, Daryl Hannah (Please check out www.dhlovelife.com), Woody Harrelson and John Lennon (for their activism). But my biggest hero is our mother, Earth.