I am the butterfly
and the dream.
I am context and
content and
all things between.
Writing. Cooking. Sacred singing. Releasing 10,000 mink into the wild with the ALF since it's better for them to destroy the local wildlife population and die of starvation than for them to die to become fur coats. Water. Air. Making bread by hand. Breathing. Connecting. Holistic healing. Dance. Contemplating whether anyone even reads this stuff. Energy work. Wondering if it's morally reprehensible to wear sweatshop labor produced clothes purchased from a thrift store. Voluntary simplicity. Sharing food with family. Creating community. Squeezing the toothpaste tube from the middle. Obsessing, noticing, shifting perspective, being pleased with myself, obsessing again, noticing again...
A noteworthy and widely-published author who has much patience with colloquialisms and enough time to go through my writing line-by-line with me.
.gina sala. .80s depeche mode. .beth orton. .buju banton. .james taylor. .mozart. .dead can dance. .ikarus. .peter gabriel. .talvin singh. .karsh kale. .rufus wainwright. .ella fitzgerald. .shujaat husain khan.
Mirrormask, Woman on Top, Aimee and Jaguar, Fire, No Man's Land, Ma Vie En Rose, The Sum of Us (ever want to see a young Russell Crowe get it on with another guy? Well bois, here's your chance!), Brazil, Anna and the King, Run Lola Run, Life is Beautiful, Babe, Kiki's Delivery Service, Being John Malkovich, Saving Grace, Blade Runner, The Life of David Gale, Twin Falls Idaho, Frida, Talk to Her, Sex and Lucia, Amelie, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Business of Fancydancing, Anything by Woody Allen.
Oh, and I have a long-closeted passion for musicals. Though I much prefer them to see them live, I'll take what I can get. So of course it follows naturally that I love Bollywood movies too. I don't care for most older ones, though, just the modern ones.
"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."
-- Ann Landers
Vurt (Jeff Noon), Snow Crash (Neal Stevenson), The Diamond Age (Neal Stevenson), Ender's Game (the series -- Orson Scott Card), The Earthsea Cycle (Ursula K. Leguin), The Otherland Saga (Tad Williams), Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett), Stardust (Neil Gaiman), The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand), Conversations with God (Neale Donald Walsch), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), Doc and Fluff (Pat Califia), Neuromancer (William Gibson), Skipping Towards Gommorah (Dan Savage), When Things Fall Apart (Pema Chodron), Idlewild and Edenborn (Nick Sagan), Anger (Thich Nhat Hanh), The Artist's Way (Julia Cameron).
And then of course there are all the self-help books...but that'd take up another page or two...
Jane Hirshfield