I enjoy sharing ideas with others. One of the ways I do this is by creating and publishing websites on subjects that interest me. My favorites, to date, are RawFoodNetwork.com , ZooBloo.com and TheLivingweb.net .
My current project is updating RawFoodNetwork.com , a resource for the raw and living food community I began almost 5 years ago to support my interest in eating raw.
RawFoodNetwork.com has links to all sorts of information including Success Stories, Before and After Pics, Support Groups, Rawlucks, Raw Restaurants, Raw Travel Opportunities, Raw Recipes, Raw Chefs, Raw Community Forums, Raw Blogs, Raw Journals, Raw Personals and Raw Dating Sites, Raw Workshops, Raw Events, Raw Resources, Organic Produce, Foraging for Wild Edible Plants,... in short anything and everything of interest to the raw and living food community.
I am envisioning RawFoodNetwork.com as a "nexus point" for the raw and living food community -- with social networking websites like MySpace, YouTube, Meetup, etc. playing a huge role in bringing like-minded people together to share ideas and friendship around the world -- without geographical limitations or boundaries.
I enjoy manifesting beautiful and unique objects -- often for a pittance or even for free. Thrift stores and flea markets are a favorite 'nexus point of manifestation' for me, plus a great way to recycle. Recently I've collected a group of handmade pottery 'tea things' and lots of presents for family and friends. I almost never shop in regular stores. Far too predictable and boring.
For the same reason, I also enjoy buying (and selling my surplus "finds")on ebay and sometimes, a country auction. Right now, my passion is finding beautiful old Japanese bankoware teapots, some with flying cranes on them; Persian pottery; old bronze bells.
Dumpsters and trash heaps are also a great place to "manifest"! Don't laugh. I have discovered everything from my favorite piece of primitive pottery to an embroidered linen sheet, vintage Christmas bird and shell ornaments, antique cast iron monkey doorstop, and ever so many other treasures in dumpsters or trash heaps. It's AMAZING what useful and beautiful things people will thow out!
I love all things "Wabi Sabi". I love all kinds of patina... even rust... and especially old Chinese and Japanese bronze pots covered with layers of rich coppery green patina. I love old Mexican glass, old Japanese fishing floats with barnacles on them, coral-encrusted shipwreck pottery from Korea (they're on my wish list), and beach-combing for driftwood and beach glass after a storm. Old vegetable dyed tribal rugs from places like Afghanistan that are worn and frayed in spots.
I love whimsy and absurdity and the unexpected. Blue Man Group. Cirque du Soleil. Really great mystical juggling -- like that of Michael Moschen ! Moving light sculptures. Kinetic sculpture driven by water or wind. Balancing toys and automata.
I love nature. Waterfalls splashing on mossy rocks. Amazing crystals: calco-pyrite... irridescent coppery crystals covering giant quartz's ... giant opalescent ammonites... huge geodes filled with celestite crystals... shooting stars at midnight .... deer racing at dawn.... trilliums and lady slippers in the spring ... trees dripping with Spanish moss and wild orchids ...
I love aromas. The smell of herbs and spices. Certain blends of nutmeg, cloves, cardomon, allspice, ginger, and cinnamon... lightly roasted to bring out the scent and ground together in a surabachi... kind of a super 'chai' spice ... mmmmm. The heady smell of certain parts of Coconut Grove just before dawn. The scent of fresh pineapple... and strawberries... and lemons and limes. The scent of applewood and other fruit woods burning in my Vermont Castings stove. Freshly ground coffee brewing (but not necessarily to drink!) The delicate aroma of green jasmine tea and the smell of jasmine blossoms at dawn. The ineffably delicate fragrance of God's breath.
I love: raw living food (aspiring to be vegan, but not quite there yet!), foraging for wild edible plants (I have the books and access to the plants, but want to learn "hands on"), permaculture, wild baby greens, avocados (at least one or two a day!),spiritual mind treatment, wild and free dancing, knowing the truth, choosing perfect divine health for self and others, power of thought, quantum physics, thoughts and feelings create reality, healing power of love, perfect atunement to divine spirit and will, complete spiritual soul connection, eternal love.
I'd like to meet:
I enjoy meeting and networking with fellow travelers on this amazing magical mystery tour we call life -- sympatico human beings who are raw-food-friendly or at least raw-curious -- and who are also conscious co-creators of a Joyous, Peaceful, Beautiful, Healthy, Loving Universe.
I enjoy people who are full of Gratitude for everything in their life ... and full of Forgiveness for their own foibles and the foibles of others.
I love the networking sites like Meetup.com , MySpace.com and YouTube.com for their wondrous ability to enable like-spirited people, people who resonate with one another, to be able to get in touch with one another, to communicate and share their common interests, ideas and goals with one another, and in the case of Meetup.com, to provide a safe way for them to meet in person. Thanks to the computer, wi-fi, and the Internet, it's reached a point where anyone who chooses to do so can live and travel anywhere in the world and find and make friends with whom they resonate. Even people like myself who live in a fairly remote area of the mountains of Western North Carolina.
I love all your comments... but PLEASE don't post oversize graphics that make visitors scroll sideways to see the whole page if they have a small laptop screen (like me :=).) I prefer 480 pixels wide, but no bigger than 520 wide. If you only have an oversize graphic and don't know how to make it smaller, go ahead and post it. I'll resize it, delete the comment, and send you a link to it so you can repost it.
Music:
I love all kinds of music (and silence too)! Over the past couple of years I have collected over 1,000 LPs at thrift stores for $.50 or $1! This has allowed me to endulge myself in exploring a LOT of music in almost every genre: jazz, classical, folk, spoken word, classic rock, soul, blues, world, etc. It's been fun going back and re-visiting everything by Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez,... listening to the Theme from Black Orpheus, Kingston Trio's "They Called the Wind Maria", "Ghostriders in the Sky", Harry Belafonte's "Cucuracucura" (almost anything by HB!)... and discovering totally new-to-me treasures...like early Kate Bush etc. I'm partial to the Bossa Nova sounds of Antonio Carlos Jobim as interpreted by Ella, Stan Getz, Frank Sinatra, etc. I've compiled extensive collections of Segovia and Carlos Montoya LPs -- I love flamenco and classical guitar. I also love piano jazz... everything from Red Camp to Oscar Peterson to Ahmad Jamal to Errol Gardner. I love French music: Charles Aznavour, Edith Piaf, Jacqueline Francois. Also spoken word: Dylan Thomas's "A Child's Christmas in Wales, etc".
On CD I enjoy: Eldar, Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer, YoYo Ma's "Obrigado Brazil", YoYo Ma & Bobby McFerrin, "State of Grace 1&2", Kitaro & Jon Anderson: "Dream", The Cowboy Junkies, Sarah McLaughlin, "Vision II: Spirit of Rumi", Christina Aguilara's "Hurt", Chris Isaak's "Heart Shaped Room", Nick Drake, Sting's "Mad About You", anything by Carlos Nakai, plus many, many others.
Movies:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Spirited Away; Qatsi Trilogy; Adaptation; Beetlejuice; Once Upon a Time in Mexico (and other films by Robert Rodriguez); Mirror Mask; anything from Cirque du Soleil; Triplette's de Belleville; David Lynch's Dune; Lord of the Rings Trilogy; Star Wars Trilogy; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Little Miss Sunshine; An Inconvenient Truth; Young Frankenstein; Blazing Saddles; What the Bleep Do I Know, etc.
Television:
Breakfast with the Arts on A&E on Sunday a.m.; some of the HGTV shows on interior design and gardening, especially those featuring unique or far out houses; occasional movies; some CNN specials; some Larry King shows; some History Channel, Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, Food Network. American Idol. Concerts on Public TV. I generally don't watch network TV shows.
Books:
Soul receives from soul that knowledge,
therefore not by book nor from tongue.
If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.
-- Jalalud'din Rumi
Books on: raw and living food diet; art and scupture (China, Dale Chihuly, Andy Goldsworthy, Alexander Calder, modern ceramics and glass, etc.); interior design (feng shui, natural decor, creating a sanctuary, building a pond, growing wildflowers, etc.); spirituality (Ask and It Is Given; Behaving As If The God In All Things Mattered; Conversations with God; Autobiograpy of a Yogi, Course in Miracles, etc.; books on miracles, physical immortality, enlightened beings; just about anything by Ernest Holmes, Wayne Dwyer, Marianne Williamson, Joel Goldsmith, Eckhardt Tolle, Dr. Robert O. Young (Ph Miracle Diet, etc.); poems of Rumi, Dylan Thomas, Robert Service); arts and crafts (papermaking, low fire ceramics, basketry, jewelry making, Japanese wood-fired pottery, etc.)science (quantum theory, Nikola Tesla, alternative theories to relativity, etc.)
Heroes:
Everyone who is on the quest to become their own authentic selves. Everyone who inspires me... and gives me permission... to become the highest and most authentic me that I was born to be. Everyone who has ever had the guts to "fly" -- to fearlessly take off on a journey with only the clothes on their back and trust that all of their needs will be provided for -- and proceed to demonstrate that thus is so.
