Camping, canoing, horseback riding, hiking, archery, target shooting, swimming, hanging out around a campfire with friends, photography, sketching and painting, travel, people and nature watching, concerts and music, festivals and powwows, art and history museums, antique and craft markets, dancing . . . walks in gentle, misty rains and fairy-dust snows, watching the sunset, spending time with my kids and grandkids, enjoying my friendship with my mother.
I traveled a lot growing up and I'd like to get back to traveling again . . . show my teenagers this beautiful country while they are still with me . . . introduce my grandchildren all the wonders of nature . . . and should I be so blessed, I'd like to see the world and my favorite places hand-in-hand with a beloved.
I'd like to meet:
Any of my heros . . . anyone who qualifies as a hero by doing, being and living the values of love and compassion for others and this beautiful planet we all share.
Music:
I love the good old fashioned Rock-n-Roll, Blues, and Motown I was raised on along with the Jazz, Swing, and Blues of my parents' generation. I weaned my kids on Fleetwood Mac, CCR, Eagles, Clapton, Henley, Queen, Bowie, Phil Collins, and Elton John. I listen to the newer pop and rock as well (GreenDay, Howie Day, ColdPlay, etc). I also love world music - Native American (north and south), Celtic, and Gypsy music are particular favorites. I enjoy the ethnic dances of those cultures as well. Music moves stirs my soul and moves me deeply. I don't just listen to one thing - I like variety to match the mood I'm in or would like to be in, the occasion and/or the scenery around me.Music Video:
Movies:
Favorites: What in the Bleep Do We Know, IndianaJones series, Lethal Weapon Series, DieHard Series, StarTrek and StarWars Series, Back to the Future Series, Hunt for Red October, True Lies, Medicine Man, 50 First Dates, Two Weeks Notice, Love Actually, What Dreams May Come, Waking Ned Devine, MP Holy Grail & Life of Brian, EverAfter, Anna and the King, Seven Years in Tibet, The American President, Sneakers, My Fellow Americans, African Queen, Heartbreak Ridge, Smoke Signals, Little Big Man, Buffalo Girls, Dances With Wolves, The Last of the Mohicans, Last of the Dogmen, Big Jake, True Grit, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Three Nuts for Cinderella, Sahara, October Sky, Iron Jawed Angels, It's a Wonderful Life, Fiddler On the Roof, Yours, Mine & Ours, all the Muppet Movies and just about anything Disney.
Television:
I don't get to watch much TV but have recently become a regular viewer of Gray's Anatomy, Lost, and Eli Stone (gotta love that first episode).
Books:
The entire Conversations With God series, A Course In Miracles, A Return to Love, The Road Less Traveled, A World Waiting to be Born, A Simple Monk, The Art of Happiness, The Good Book, The Thinkers Way, Ethics for the New Millenium, Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Random Acts of Kindness, Jesus and Buddha, What God Wants, God In All Worlds, God Without Religion . . . then there is The Invitation, The Dance, and The Call (all by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, see my blog for the poems these books were based upon) . . . anything philosophical and inspirational. All I had time to read for quite a while was for school . . . after a much deserved rest I am looking forward to reading The Universe in a Single Atom by the Dali Lama and The Seven Daughters of Eve. If you've read either of these I'd be tickled to hear what you thought.
Heroes:
The Dalai Lama, Pope John Paul II, Mother Theresa, Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr, Elie Weitzel, Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbechov, Jimmy Carter, Nikoli Tesla, Albert Einstein, Carl Sagen, Issac Asimov, Marianne Williamson, Oprah, Jane Goodall, Temple Grandin, Howard Gardner, Lenny Schafer, David & Mark Geier . . . and every mother of a special needs child
