mountains, poetry, singing, my gibson, the getty, the swans. earning it. immersing myself in rivers. picnics. yurts. sincerity. bare feet. baths. playing in the park late at night. peace. big sur. eftalou. interruptions by the moon. long bacchanalian dinners. playing dress up. mexican food, every day mexican food...or thai. snow, leaves, fields of wildflowers, sand, seasons, old friends, new friends, touching, breathing, chemistry, maleability.
various soul mates who teach me things i have never thought of. people who want to explore everything. spontaneous sorts. word people. the humble and fun. oscar wilde for dorian gray. virginia woolf for writing the one book i have made threadbare and for writing in it "i regain the sense of complexity and the reality and the struggle, for which i thank you." mary oliver for saying so many things and especially for saying "what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" leonard cohen for singing "ring the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." tesla for being. ts eliot for everything and "we must be still and still moving."
willie, rufus, ani, brubeck, ella, lyle, coltrane, ebtg, mazzy, stones, beatles, goldfrapp, cohen, waits, mandalay, chopin, gilbertos, sigur ros, nina simone, flaming lips, b&s, bjork, emiliana torrini, tori, django, air, nick drake
city of the lost children, chocolat, dreams, before the rain, gallipoli, run lola run, schindler's list, olivier olivier, baraca, the red dress, the red violin, swing kids, la jetee, amelie, the lover, the bicycle thief, motorcycle diaries, lovers of the arctic circle, together.
the waves, the english patient, breakfast at tiffany's, fugitive pieces, crossing to safety, the earth is enough, the lover, the mists of avalon, many lives many masters, demian, einstein's dreams, the gift, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, corelli's mandolin, 100 years of solitude, the wasteland, invisible man, the fountainhead, the giving tree.
anyone who really truly is willing to stand alone not for iconoclasm but because it is right. maha cohen. chuang tzu. osho. gods and dogs.