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Donna

be the change you want to see in the world ~ Mahatha Gandhi~

About Me

I'm a dreamer, but, somehow manage to keep up with reality. It is love, I believe, that makes the world go around.~dream it ~~do it~ ........~~~~~~~ ~ live it~ ~~~~...............

My Interests

Friends * familyphotography * yoga .* Pilates * dancing (Modern, Jazz, Swing, Lindy Hop, Hip- Hop, African, square dancing, clogging, Irish, Sean Nos....), American music History, * American dance history * Film Festivals* bookstores * biographies * art galleries * musuems * indie/ foreign films* biographies* handwriting analysis* cultural anthropology* NPR * BBC world news* fostercare/ youth advocacy * silent films from the 1920s* musicals* hip indie coffeeshops * good veggie food* hiking *camping* thrift/consignment shopping* Shabby chic design* baking*Martha Stewart* Craft Stores* Learning to frame really awesome photos* going to garage sales* dreaming about world travel......~ “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent” ~ Victor Hugo ~ ~♥ ♥~~~~ Be the change you want to see in the world~ Mahatma Gandhi ~ ~~~ ~~~~~~ How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ~Henry David Thoreau~ ~~~“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...” ~~ ~ ~ "It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”~ Virginia Woolf ~ ~ ~ “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ~T.S Eliot~ ~~~ ~~~ ~ ~ "Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.~ ~~~

I'd like to meet:

old friends.People who desire to help make this world a better place; Realistic dreamsers. Optimists. People who would rather go to Africa and volunteer than to vegas any day! :)~* ~* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *~ * ~ I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. Those among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. ~Dr. Albert Schweitzer~ ~ ~ There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together. ~ Mother Teresa~

Music:

...Blues, 20s, 30s, and 40s jazz, swing, bluegrass, folk, alt country,old country, classical, world beat, celtic, Music that took effort to make, international music; Currently, I have been researching really old blues, and folk...good stuff. :)~~~~~~ *~~~~~ * ~~~~~ * ~~~~* ~~~~~~ * ~~~~ Current faves: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Blind Willie Mctell, Ruby Glaze, Lottie Kimbrough, Jelly Roll Morton, Alfred Karnes, W.M. Stepp, Kentucky Ramblers, Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Dock Boggs, Doc watson,dilly & his Dill pickles, Woody Guthrie, Skillit Lickers, uncle dave macon, Roscoe Holcomb , Flatt & Scruggs, The Carter Family,Pentangle, Fairport convention, Sandy Denny, Kate Rusby,Bela Fleck, Third Day, Jennifer Knapp, Moby,Sigur Ros, DJ Tiesto,CocoRosie, The Postal Service, Death Cab For Cutie,Taken By Trees, Hevia, Dochas,Lunasa, Solas, Uncle Earl,Abigail Washburn, Crooked Still,Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, Alison Krauss,Sara Watkins, Nickel Creek, Martha Scanlan, The Avett Brothers, The Crooked Jades, Benny Goodman, Andrews Sisters, Ella fitzgerald....~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~*~~~I'm a big local/indie music fan.......Some of my fave. local artists are: The Town Pants, The Tallboys, The Flat Mountain Girls,Horsefeathers , An Dochas, Cross eyed Rosie, Nathan wade, The McKassons,Thione Diop, Awal Alhassan (who, by the way is an AWESOME african dance teacher!):)~ Some really great old time fiddle music!Uncle Earl. " Streak O' Lean, Streak O'Fat"("New" Old time music)

Movies:

The Way Home, The Blue Kite, Seoul Train, Rabbit Proof Fence, Ray, Walk The Line, Legally blonde, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Roman Holiday, funnyface, 42nd street, Cats, Caberet, Dames, tophat, Throw mama from the train, uncle buck, silent movies, classics, , ect...

Television:

- Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire dancing~ Singing in the Rain " Good morning "- Whitey's Lindy Hoppers performing the Big Apple (1939) ~ ~ Benny Goodman - Roll 'Em (1942)

Books:

biographies, classic literature, fiction, historical literature.......currently reading: Tuesdays With Morrie, Eat Pray Love, Burning Bright, by Tracy Chevalier,The life of Pi, Those who save us,Three Cups of Tea, Your best life now, The life of Dylan Thomas, Photography handbooks.....Yes, I always have about 7 or 8 books going at a time, and somehow, I do manage to read them all at one time or another.

Heroes:

Some people that have been a great influence in my life are, My family for being so hard working, my gram for her awesome musical influence in my life,and for teaching others the music of her time.my friends, Anne & Robert, Mike & Linda Badinger,Debbee, Lisa C.All of my friends have been a blessing in my life!~ my gram durung a radio show performance. 1954. Murfreesboro, Tenn.I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)................................ I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)~ * ~ * ~ *

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My Blog

Im in love with this little home!

*sigh* I'm daydreaming about homes again.  I want to move. I just don't know where to! Anywho...here's the lastest of homes i'm daydreaming about... I could SO fix this place up. I could have *...
Posted by Donna on Sun, 25 May 2008 11:40:00 PST

Skip James : youtube video.

Skip James - Worried Blues ...
Posted by Donna on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:16:00 PST

Goodniight don’t let the bedbugs biite.

 "I aint got no accent", my grandma would say. You're the one that has the accent, she would say in her native Tennessee tone.   Y'all from Colorada talk plain. Okay I thought...
Posted by Donna on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:20:00 PST

Cute house--- but really?!?

Come ON!! This house is cute. But, Wheatland Wy!?! Hellllooo!!  What on earth would you do in Wheatland, WY??   "lets go a huntin’ some bobcats, and drink some miller lite"  of c...
Posted by Donna on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:26:00 PST

What is love?

  Sometimes me think what is love, and then me think love is what last cookie is for. Me give up the last cookie for you." ~   Cookie Monster~ ...
Posted by Donna on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:46:00 PST

Polaroid’s: A dying art.

All Things Considered, February 29, 2008 · Most of us have moved on to digital cameras, but some artists and enthusiasts smitten with instant photography are mourning what they see as the end of an er...
Posted by Donna on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:10:00 PST

I want this to be my next vacation!!

realgapco.uk   I think it would be awesome to volunteer in Africa, or India. The question is, I wonder if my job(s) would give the time off....  I think that this is the one I want to do th...
Posted by Donna on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:57:00 PST

Wake up , America!!

   this just shocks me. My solution-- A) Kill your T.V B) Take yourself, and your children/family to a poor Country and volunteer, rather than a trip to Vegas, ect. C) Learn to love yoursel...
Posted by Donna on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:07:00 PST

Hundreds attend local Hour for Peace event

.this is a wonderful event to attend. I highly reccomend going if you ever get the chance to go to one in your local area.  I wish I could have went this year..... ..> Hundreds of people brav...
Posted by Donna on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:47:00 PST

just daydreaming about houses again.... *sigh*

 So, I really should be doing the rest of my Christmas shopping, or cleaning my apt...but NOOO. I want to look at homes.   HouseMI   homemaryl.   homeVirgi.   home2Virg. &nbs...
Posted by Donna on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:51:00 PST