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.â€~ 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.~ ~~~
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~
...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)
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...
- 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)
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.
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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