living with compassion, my children, menstruation, smoking cigarettes, painting, trees, the moon in all Her phases, sewing, exploring sexuality, learning walking, rain, serving others, activism, human rights, environmentalist issues, writing, self expression, the people in my neighborhood
Alice in Chains, Ani Difranco, Sigur Ros, Billy Bragg, Cat Power, Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, Broken Social Scene, Bjork, Julie Doiron, Eric's Trip, The Beatles, Fiery Furnaces, Frank Black, Pixies, NICK CAVE, Jane's Addiction, Metric, Novillero, Pink Floyd, PJ Harvey, Portishead, Ron Sexsmith, Sonic Youth, the New Pornographers
Tarnation the Night Whisperer documentaries mostlyManufactured Landscapes
Trailer Park Boys
~Spiritual Midwifery, by Ina May ~Holistic Midwifery Volumes 1 and 2, by Anne Frye ~anything by Douglas Coupland, Margaret Atwood, Mordechai Richler and Gordon Korman (all Canadians) ~Woman, an Intimate Geography, by Natalie Angier ~Nancy Friday, who opened my eyes ~Rebecca Chalker, who wrote A Woman's Book of Choices and the Clitoral Truth
Layne Staley, Dr. Michel Odent, Vincent Van Gogh (for his inspirational writing and art) anyone who has lived through addiction, survivors, people who have the courage to be honest through darknessWOMEN."During our monthly cycle we journey out of the body to the Upper World during the Waxing Moon gathering creative inspiration. We live in the Middle World during ovulation and express our divinity with the Full Moon light, and dive deep into the Under World, like Inanna's descent, during the New Moon when we menstruate and gather the wisdoms of healing and living from the darkness of the soul; where in essence we die and are reborn. In addition, we face death at the time of childbirth when we travel out of body into the invisible realms to bring back a spirit to incarnate in our babies. Women are, in essence, conduits for the mysteries of life and death."-Kisma K. StepanichThe Grandmothers.People who have the strength to live with compassion and the courage to love themselves and others.Midwives who practice truth, and even those that haven't found their way yet, because I believe that It is coming.Jeannine Parvati Baker