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"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does." -Allen GinsbergView All Friends | View Blog
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John Mallinen, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pedro the Lion, mewithoutYou, The Psalters, Birdie Busch, Radiohead, Sufjan Stevens, The American Analog Set, Crystal Skulls, Saxon Shore, Rage Against the Machine, The Shins, Project 86, Brother Danielson, Unwed Sailor, Caspian, Iron and Wine, Jose Gonzalez, John Francis, Vetiver.
Bowling for Columbine, Born into Brothels, Jarhead, Eternal Sunshine, Anchorman, Instinct, Gattica, To End All Wars, Tommy Boy, Hotel Rwanda, Speak, Yesterday, A River Runs Through it :"Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."
Thomas Merton-New Seeds of Contemplation, The Irresistible Revolution-Shane Claiborne, Brave New World, Mere Christianity, Richard Hays, Yoder, Brian McLaren, Thomas Hardy, Ishmael, The Spirit of Disciplines, Henry Nouwen, mere discipleship, the Gospels, The Short Stories of Dostoevsky, The Catcher in the Rye-J.D. Salinger, Traveling Mercies-Anne Lamott, Siddhartha-Hermann Hesse, The Brothers K-David James Duncan, Walden-Henry David Thoureau, Blue Like Jazz-Donald Miller, My Story As Told By Water-David James Duncan, An Ordinary Man- Paul Rusebagina, Violence- James Gilligan (all about shame baby), The Brothers Karamazov- Dostoevesky, Beloved- Toni Morrison, Raising Abel- James Alison (READ IT!), The Rivery Why- DJD (hilarious!), Unbearalbe Weight- Susan Bordo, Becoming Human- Jean Vanier, God Laughs and Plays-David James Duncan.
"I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and
sat down under the huge shade of a Southern
Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the
box house hills and cry.
Jack Kerouac sat beside me on a busted rusty iron
pole, companion, we thought the same thoughts
of the soul, bleak and blue and sad-eyed, sur-
rounded by the gnarled steel roots of trees of
machinery.
The oily water on the river mirrored the red sky, sun
sank on top of final Frisco peaks, no fish in that
stream, no hermit in those mounts, just our-
selves rheumy-eyed and hungover like old bums
on the riverbank, tired and wily..."
~Allen Ginsberg "Sunflower Sutra"
Jesus Christ, Mother Teresa, Dragging Canoe, Martin Luther King Jr, Ghandi, St. Francis, Doug Frank, Nancy and John Linton, Sam Alvord, there are many that are not heroes but people that I look up to, my older and wiser friends.
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