Family, Spirituality, Dance for my various needs, for my sensual building-belly dancing, for orisha seeking- afro-cuban, for ass shaking release-samba, for bus stop reminiscing-hip hop, for my jedi sharperning-Capoeira, For the inner granola-Yoga, Poetry, Moon cycles, Holistic and Medical Education, Folk medicine, Social History, Love, Cyphas, Research, and Hiking. Trees on warm spring days and breezy fall mini cyclones, rivers, stones, soulful organic food, mexican food, wise words and good advice, family time, innocence, forgiveness optimism in all its highness.
Midwives, Wise Old people, Humble folks,My grandparents, Good people in Philly, and all kinds of open spirits.
Alluswe, Bob Marley, Ani Difranco, Nina Simone!, Billie Holiday Mos Def, Alicia Keys, Common, Bilal, Immortal Technique, Saul Williams, Suheir Hammad,Prince, Marc Anthony. Jazz, Hip-Hop, Salsa, and Bachata.
KIDS, I heart Huckabees, Friday, Half Baked, Y Tu Mama Tambien, El Cantante, The Panama Deception, Scarface, and Documentaries and Comedies
hmmm. . .watching ol episodes of the wire but that will soon come to an end too.
Stone Butch Blues, Care of the Soul, Harvest of an Empire, Lies my Teacher told Me, Rasta and Resistance, Mountains beyond Mountains, Native Son, Che: A Revolutionary Life, Assata, Live from Death Row, Sula, In the time of the Butterflies, Parable of the Sower, Women Who Run With Wolves, Ceremony, Frida Kahlo: The Paintings
Mom-she's infectiously positive, Palestinians, Paul Farmer, Mumia, Ella Baker, Harriet Tubman, Anna Ortega, Jennifer Dohrn, Audre Lorde, Malcolm X, Ancestors that have struggled for liberation before,Some of the Strong Moms I see, People who live by Love and Not Bitterness, everyday heroes like teachers, firefighters, religious figures,social workers, nurses and MD's, and many others unsung.