Books, Poetry, Sufism, Beowulf, Early Medieval texts, Latin, educational reform, editing, Tristan da Cunha, Harry Potter, opera, bluegrass, traveling to unfamiliar places, storms, Sweden, South Africa, Hawai'ian history and culture, Ancient Hebrew history and the study of Judaism, Catholic theology, comparative religious studies, yoga, pilates, semantics, Biblical exegesis, flossing
...Someone who continually attempts to master that timeless phrase uttered by the oracle at Delphi...
church choir, Imogen Heap, Alexi Murdoch, The White Stripes, Nils Petter Molvaer, Kent, Dar Williams, Billy Joel, Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Aerosmith, liturgical and chant
Out of Africa (1985); Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991); Doctor Zhivago (1965); Moulin Rouge (2001); The English Patient (1996); Once Upon a Time in the West (1968); Awakenings (1990), So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
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Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being; the poetry of my buddy, Thomas Stearns; Samuel Menashe's books of poetry; James A. Michener's The Source; Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago
Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury, T.S. Eliot, Monsignor Sal Criscuolo of St. Patrick’s Church, and my high school English teacher, Karen McNally, who introduced me to Beowulf and my first earful of Middle English.