Music,writing,art,art history,sexual health education, reproductive rights,politics,equality for all races, creeds and sexual preferences,Civil Rights Movement,Gay Rights. Holocaust research. Love Ancient Egyptian Archaeology.Primping and preening, make-up...making fun of men who claim they like a low maintenance woman who is natural and then run in horror when they see a woman with no make-up, no bra and their breasts are swinging low. Health,working out until rivulets of sweat bead up and run down my back,the feel of concrete under my feet when I run. The leaves in Autumn when they change color, the smell in the air right before it rains. Feeling goosebumps on my arms when two people sing in perfect harmony.Clean sheets and freshly shaven legs. Lying in bed and knowing that you have another hour until you have to wake up.-The Gospel According to Shug-Helped are those who are enemies of their own racism: they shall live in harmony with the citizens of this world, and not with those of the world of their ancestors, which has passed away, and which they shall never see again.-Helped are those born from love: conceived in their father's tenderness and their mother's orgasm, for they shall be those-numbers of whom shall be called "illegitimate"-whose spirits shall no know no bounderies, even between heaven and earth, and whose eyes shall reveal the spark of love that was their own creation, They shall know total joy equal to their suffering and they will lead multitudes into dancing and Peace.-Helped are those too busy to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.-Helped are those who find something in Creation to admire each and every hour. Their days will overflow with beauty and the darkest dungeon will offer gifts.-Helped are those who only receive only to give; always in their house will be the circular energy of generosity; and in their hearts a beginning of a new age on Earth: when no keys will be needed to unlock the heart and no locks will be needed on the doors.-Helped are those who love the stranger; in this they reflect the heart of the Creator and that of the Mother.-Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.-Helped are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.-Helped are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name of fad; they shall live everyday as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.-Helped are those who love others unsplit off from their faults; to them will be given clarity of vision.-Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception, and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.-Helped are those who love the Earth, their mother, and who willingly suffer that she may not die; in their grief over her pain they will weep rivers of blood, and in their joy in her lively response to love, they will converse with trees.-Helped are those whose every act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.-Helped are those who risks themselves for others' sakes; to them will be given increasing oppurtunities for even greater risks. Theirs will be a vision of the world in which no one's gift is despised or lost.-Helped are those who strive to give up their anger; their reward will be that in any confrontation their first thoughts will never be of violence or of war.-Helped are those whose every act is is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.-Helped are those who forgive: their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth.-Helped are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.-Helped are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.-Helped are those who love the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of animals and plants; none of their children, nor their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.-Helped are those who love the lesbian, the gay, and the straight, as they love the sun, the moon, and the stars. None of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.-Helped are those who love the broken and the whole; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves shall be despised.-Helped are those who do not join mobs; theirs shall be the understanding that to attack in anger is to murder in confusion.-Helped are those who find the courage to do at least one small thing each day to help the existence of another-plant, animal,river, or human being. They shall be joined by a multitude of the timid.-Helped are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.-Helped are those who love and actively support the diversity of life; they shall be secure in their differentness.-Helped are those who KNOW.-Alice Walker-
....this guy....People who understand there is sweetness in life if you just seek it out in the smaller things....A heart I can't chew and then spit out.....
Classical music...choral, opera, early polyphonic, gregorian, dark stuff like requiems and masses. Brahms, Orff,Killar,Verdi,Hildegaard Von Bingen,Baroque-melodic and moody.Tori Amos,Ani Difranco,Annie Lennox, Cindy Lauper,Mike Doughty,Beck,Pink Floyd,Black Keys SimonandGarfunkle,Eddie Rabbitt,RL Burnside,Stevie Ray Vaughan,NOT Hendrix,Allison Krauss,Johnny Cash,Loretta Lynn,Beatles,Bread,Le Tigre,Regina Spektor,Emmylou Harris, Massive Attack,Radiohead, Bjork,Morcheeba,Depeche Mode,Deep Forest,Kim Richey,Eva Cassidy...Anything slow and sensual.70's glam rock,Bowie,Queen.Bluegrass, 80's shite that people deny but yet know all the words!True Hip-Hop and R&B,Common,Lauryn Hill,Maxwell,D'Angelo,John Legend,Cee-low,Mos Def,Wu-tang,O.D.B.,Murs,Grayskul,Anticon Label artists.Tricky, Dizzee Rascal.Terrible Rap, Blues, classic rock, 50's and 60's love songs, rockabilly...I worked in a music store for 10 years for Chrisakes!
Foreign films are my fave, all the glamour of saying you saw some intelligent film, but really it's just porn with a fancy title! I usually fall asleep 20 minutes into a movie, so finding something that holds my interest can be difficult. I tend to sway towards artsy shit, but not for the pleasure of being intellectual, but for the most part...for the unedited sex, violence and debauchery!
Food Network! History channel, PBS, Surgery channel, MTV when it was good, MTV2 when it was good...seriously, when did I get 7 years older than all of the cast members on the Real World? I basically flip thru till I find something entertaining then I proceed to numb my brain.
Alice Walker's Temple of My Familiar. Poisonwood Bible, Small Death In Lisbon, anything Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison, Memoirs of a Geisha, After Long Silence, anything about the Halocaust, trashy novels, erotica, art history literature, sexual health literature.
Beautiful women who have strength and integrity that have the ability to appreciate other women with the same attributes. Don't hate, Congratulate!