love. peace. friendship. music! dancing. radical ideas. empowerment. action! vintage style. sustainability. good deeds. reading. buying locally. laughing. cooking. eating good food. drinking good wine. grassroots movements. back-to-basics. yoga. science. hugs. cozy time. community. parties! natural health. bubble baths. massive change. organics. tea. plants. making teas and tinctures and oils and good stuff. feathers. biodiesel. circle time. crazy talk. essential oils. curry. green energy. babies. honesty. trust. warm blankets. painting. creating. jewelry making. crafting. kissing. HOLISTIC WELLNESS. ya!
Music:
fela kuti. chico mann. antibalas. le tigre. camera obscura. cat power. ocote soul sounds. leonard cohen. james brown. marvin gaye. amy winehouse. astrud gilberto. bowie. mahmoud ahmed. k-os. ali hassan kuban. serge gainsbourg. pete tong. ian pooley. the pixies. jill scott. ravi shankar. new order. el michels affair. daktaris. the doors. steely dan. iron & wine. ocote soul sounds. sharon jones & the dap kings. the shins. iron & wine. curtis mayfield. bob dylan. bob marley. tears for fears. tony allen. nick drake. tribe called quest. belle and sebastian. tvotr. de la soul. bjork. american watercolor movement. thievery corp. jazzanova. the cardigans. the ghana soundz collection. the roots. roy ayers. kid koala. les nubiens. billie holiday. the police. nina simone. erykah badu. if i'm in the mood, enya -shut up.
Movies:
an inconvenient truth
Baraka, Powaqquatsi, Dreams, Amelie, Chocolat, the Corporation, Fahrenheit 911, The NeverEnding Story, Zoolander, Monsoon Wedding, Ayurveda
Books:
Food Politics (Marion Nestle), Think on These Things(Jiddu Krishnamurti), The Power of Now(Eckhart Tolle), Bhagavad Gita, Siddhartha (Herman Hesse), The Better World Handbook, The Social Contract(Jean-Jacques Rousseau), Meditations(Marcus Aurelius), The Essential David Suzuki, Stupid White Men(Michael Moore), Life of Pi(Yann Martel), The Piano Man's Daughter(Timothy Findley), Carlos Castenada, Katha Upanishad, Paul McCartney, Hafiz, Rumi
Heroes:
"With my music, I create change...I am using my music as a weapon."
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
"The art of medicine is to follow Nature, to imitate and assist her in the cure of diseases"
Thomas Reid
"Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself."
"How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist? "
"If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down."
Paul Hawken
"You only lose what you cling to."
"Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care."
Siddhartha Gautama
"I maintain that truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others "
"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man. "
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. "
Jiddu Krishnamurti
