Traveling to distant lands, meeting and experiencing different people and their various beliefs and ways of living, yoga, flamenco, cooking, meditation, art-creating and appreciating, photograpy, scuba diving, gardening, animals, nature, touching another human being, people watching, maps, foreign languages, breathing in and out.
People who...aren't afraid of being themselves...
...respect others and life...are willing to take risks even if that means being uncomfortable or scared...are living their dreams and enjoying life...are kind and gracious... And on the less serious side, just some interesting characters who can put a smile on my face. : )
If you pay attention to dots appearing around SE Asia, that's probably me! Just play connect the dots.
Flamenco, Brazilian, Cuban, Middle Eastern, Classic Rock, Indie, Lounge, Latin Jazz, Dance 70s-current - Pink Martini, Lebrijano, Babel Gilberto, Buena Vista Social Club, Kinky, Morphine, Cowboy Junkies, Prince, Coldplay, Led Zepplin, Janis Joplin, Rolling Stones, Peter Gabriel, Macy Gray, Alabina, Paco de Lucia, Portishead
Love movies...usually the ones that are more than 2 1/2 hours. Harry Potter, Babel, Schindler's List, Monsters Inc, Casino, Silence of the Lambs, Fried Green Tomatoes, Little Miss Sunshine, The Color Purple
When I had a TV I could be caught watching Grey's Anatomy, Amazing Race, Survivor, CSI Las Vegas and The Discovery Channel. But honestly, I haven't watched TV since 2006, so I couldn't tell you what was even on these days.
Shantaram, Eat-Pray-Love, The Kite Runner, The Life of Pi, The Alchemist, Memoirs of a Geisha, White Oleander, She's Come Undone, Forever Amber, Bhagavad Gita, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Pillars of the Earth, Mysts of Avalon, The Time Traveler's Wife, Bhagavad Gita, The Prophet, The Mutant Message Down Under, The Power of Now, The Celestine Prophecy
My maternal grandmother, my dad, several of my friends, Leo Buscaglia, George Carlin, Angelina Jolie