My son Tristan, music (jazz, funk, soul, salsa, anything made with intent and passion that moves me in some way large or small), writing, ethnic food, deep politics, golf, skiing, tennis, and in general finding the enlightened path in an unenlightened world.
Michael Franti, Ralph Nader, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Etan Thomas, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Martina Navratilova, Peter Tosh, Andre Agassi, Hugo Chavez, Gil Scott-Heron, Hugh Masekela, Steve Nash ...
Check the "one love" list and follow the bouncing links...
Au Revoir Les Enfants, Crash (the newer one), American Beauty, American Pie, Kramer vs. Kramer, Dead Man Walking, Gambling Gods & LSD, Naked, Secrets & Lies, Half-Baked, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Woodstock ....
The occasional Leafs game and a whole lotta Animal Planet ...
Sula by Toni Morrison; Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee; Deep Politics (and the Assassination of JFK) by Peter Dale Scott; What's My Name, Fool? A History of Sports and Resistance in the United States by Dave Zirin; Dude, Where's My Country?; The Living by Annie Dillard; 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marques; The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin; Food of the Gods by Terrence McKenna; and my bible the Chicago Manual of STYLE.
My son Tristan, for being the toughest little hombre I've ever seen yet so gentle and curious. Ralph Nader, Gary Webb (RIP to the greatest journalist of our time), Aunt Cindy, Grandma Alice, the 'rents, Big John Small (damn, I miss you and every day of this musical adventure is dedicated to the teacher who got it started for real), Chris Smither (greatest musical storyteller I've ever seen), Dave Calicchio and Emilia Bruce and all the other teachers I've been blessed to meet along the way ...