sondra* [away]

I'd like to meet:

people who practice kindness & see the beauty in everything. gentle down to earth people who like to laugh! vegetarians&vegans. miniature little buddhas covered in fur!

"We met, before the world began, when you had your original face",we met when you were just a sparkle in the universe's eye,when you were thinking outside the box, going with the flow, loving life,living off the grid, your energy was expanding,** we met when you were realizing life is the just the story and love's the lesson, you were speaking the universal language, transcending awareness. we met when you were awake, you were up at the dawn of the millenium, making coffee, cooking breakfast, soluting the sun, feeding the hungry, raising the children, housing the people, teaching love, exercising compassion, forgiving your self, loving your brother, and respecting generations past, you were feeling your connection to the universe, trusting all creation, you were letting go, and letting god, you were taking one day at a time, you were accepting failure, and giving grace, you were realizing that gratitude isn't just an attitude, its a way of living. we got it together, bought "a ticket to ride" "on the peace train", we sang "get up stand up" we were "jamming in the name of the lord". together we joined creation to release all the beautiful beings from needless suffering. we were nothing new under the sun, we were Love & stardust,we were stars gone nova.
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Music:

has potential to change us and change the world. too many to list. Billy Paul~Mrs.Jones .. width="300" height="350" .... .. width="300" height="300" ....

Movies:

children of men, www.TheMeatrix.com, Te kaieke tohora/whale rider,the story of the wheeping camel,eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, crouching tiger, matrix, memoirs of a geisha, bulletproof monk, tomb raider,7 years in tibet,divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood, Hook, good will hunting, yentl, chocolat, We, what the bleep do we know, kenneth branagh's hamlet, sir L.O's Hamlet,rosencrantz & gildenstein are dead, sabrina 1&2,amelie, love song for bobby long, michael, wedding singer, 50 first dates =)

Television:

Tuned Out

Books:

The Elegant Universe, The Universe In a Single Atom, The Message From Water~Dr. Masaru Emoto
Sleeping Dreaming & Dying, The Good Heart, When Things Fall Apart-pema chodron, Yoga of The Heart, Kundalini Yoga, Good Grief, Widow For A Year, The Way of the Bodhisattva-Shantideva, The Bible, Spirituality and Art, The Good Earth, will shakespeare complete anthology,hello, my name is chellis i'm in recovery from western civilization,the splendor of creation~bernstein

Heroes:

my three cats. the dalai lama. jesus of nazareth. painters. marc rothko,warhol,jackson p.,my mom. billy O. 1953-2003i was 12 years old when i first heard john lennon sing 'Imagine'. it was 1980. the lyrics to imagine had been published in a sky background on a page in rolling stone. i took the page out of the magazine and put my new mantra on my white bedroom wall where i could see it, where it could anchor me to peaceful thoughts each day.
i had moved to the city and away from the closeted life of suburban and rural white families. i experienced the first wave of culture shock when i witnessed adult teachers deriding poorer students in a classroom, and white young friends warnings about racial separation. my new friends and school mates were from every country and of everycolor and shade of skin. i felt connected and enriched by new eyes and new experiences in my pre-teen world. i also felt confused and hurt realizing the separations of people from each other, and from universal love in the adult world. a man that i had never met, an artist, a peace activist, john lennon, provided me with the antidote to racism, culturism, sexism, genderism, poorism, and every kind of separation that wounds and hurts humanity.
a twelve year old girl, a song, and the world. my mind woke up to consciousness. to peace consciousness. the dream of peace was born in me. that is the very important role of artists in our culture. through the power of self examination and expression an artist changes the thought process of a nation. an artist has the power and very special gift of interrupting archaic thought processes like love and war, and inserting a new response for human beings to focus on. that is the power of a song. a song focuses the mind, the vibration and thought energy of a being on a concept and a process. when i heard john lennon sing Imagine, i knew there were other peace loving people out there like me who longed for unity and love for all people.
then, a shot rang out in december. i had just become awake. i remember feeling crushed & crying like so many others who never knew john, for yoko ono & their children, and for john lennon, and for what we lost as a nation~ a visionary. he had so much to live for and so much to offer the world. he was a man with a vision of peace that the world needed, and still needs today. i learned recently that it was yoko ono's writing about surviving war that inspired john to write imagine. it makes me love Imagine more.
what a great gift john & yoko have given us. as artists using the power of reflection and thought, and inner examination and self revelation, using their own lives as a canvass, they showed us how to publicly and collectively imagine peace. may we be the peace & the love that we wish to see in the world. may all artists become awake to the power of their work to inspire hope in young people and joy in all humanity.