random people and the adventures they take me on...
non-nuclear families & friends. dark people, darker beer, and the darkest of chocolates. melt-me-massages. the satisfaction of working hard, but playing even harder. reinventing myself, time and time again...
all around the world.
I'd like to meet:
MY peoples: the ones with rhythm and soul,
luscious lips, and a lotta (s)ass; thinkers, juicy creative types, and those who've busted open the socially constructed B.S. boxes: adoptees, artists, athletes, bodyworkers, dancers, djs, chefs, economists, entreprenuers, farmers, healers, islanders, musicians, naturalists, organizers, photographers, playrights, social activists & entreprenuers, teachers, writers, & world citizens who want to
CHANGE IT ALL, not just chill along for the ride.
This fall season eases me into the Saturn Return - an astrological phenomenon happens when one is 28-30 years old. As Saturn takes approximately 29.5 years to orbit the Sun, its return aligns to the exact degree along the ecliptic it occupied at the time of a person's birth.
Saturn's challenges include time, confusion, and hard lessons, while its blessings include accomplishment, reflection, prestige, and maturity...thus the thirtieth birthday's role as a deep rite of passage and the "true beginning" of adulthood, self-evaluation, independence, responsibility, ambition, and full maturation.
This transition towards my Saturn's home feels fabulous; never before have I felt such synchronicity of my heart, body, and spirit...major professional and personal risks undertaken in recent years have begun to bear fruit, and my libra scales are teetering on the brink of balance. It's perhaps the best time to know me, and to love me, because I finally know and love myself.
On a spiritual level, I was raised Christian but am in an exploratory quest for global traditions and teachings. Most recently I draw inspiration from Goddess legends past and present. The above diva is Oshun, African Goddess of all the arts, but especially dance. Beauty belongs to Oshun and represents the human ability to create beauty for its own sake, to create beyond need. Known especially for her sweetness, she is Goddess of Love, but she has a dark side and knows secrets by divination. Her sacred animal is the royal peacock -
a variation on which I plan to strut my stuff for Halloween this year.
And to whom might the goddess muse dance you might ask? Reggae and dancehall pulse through my blood, but soulful house and down home gospel rock my world - anytime, any place, live or with a dj mastermind. I love to go out and revel in the positive people and vibrations that accompany these grooves; if I go home before the lights come on at the club, it's likely because I've got a long run scheduled just a few hours later before the morning sun comes up. Check out my music list; drop me a line if it's missing sumpn, and bump my butt out on the dance floor :-)
tell me if you want me to...
Music:
A Tribe Called Quest, Alicia Keys, Aterciopelados, Basement Jaxx, Beastie Boys, Bebel Gilberto, Beenie Man, Beres Hammond, Black Eyed Peas, Blackaliscious, Brazilian Girls, Carlos Santana, Chemical Brothers, Chicane, Common, Daft Punk, Damian 'Junior Gong' Marley, Danny Tenaglia, Depeche Mode, DJ Sneak, Dmitri from Paris, Doc Martin, Doors, Ella Fitzgerald, Erykah Badu, Goapele, Gregory Isaacs, Groove Armada, Grupo Fantasma, Jacksons, James Brown, Jamiroquai, Jill Scott, Jimmy Archbold, Jimmy Hendrix, John Digweed, Juanes, Kinky, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Lisa Shaw, Little Louie Vega, Los Amigos Invisibles, Los Jaguares, Louis Armstrong, Lucky Dube, Madonna, Manu Chao, Mark Farina, Marley Family, Marques Wyatt, Marvin Gaye, Maxwell, Miguel Migs, Mos Def, Nina Simone, Orishas, Ozomatli, Pato Banton, Paul Oakenfold, Prince, Quetzal, R. Kelly, Santana, Sean Paul, Shade, Shakira, Steel Pulse, Suba, Tanya Stephens, The Doors, Thievery Corporation, Third World, Transdub Massiv, U2, Yerba Buena, Zap Mama
Movies:
abre los ojos, after-school specials, amores perros, belle epoque, charlie and the chocolate factory (o.g. style), city of god, como agua para chocolate, belle epoque, documentaries, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, finding nemo, hitchcock, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, hotel rwanda, il postino, james and the giant peach, lemony snicket's a series of unfortunate events, life is beautiful, malena, my big fat greek wedding, national geographic, spike lee, spirited away, the game, the secretary, women on the edge of a nervous breakdown
Television:
n/a, not enough hours in the day for all that...tho I love me some Dave Chapelle -n- Sex & the City DVDs (back when ignorance about Kramer's inner racist was bliss, some Seinfeld too...wouldn't watch it now if you paid me!)
Books:
bad question for a bibliophile
although there's always the timeless classic...
and i'm currently reading:
A Treasury of Afro American Folklore
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption
Secret Daughter
West Africa
Heroes:
mis mamas!
oshun...
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