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I’ve always wanted to breakdance. I’m buying a motorcycle and it will be small and have dents. I love drinking wine with my girlfriends, and whiskey with my guy friends. But I do not like to be drunk. I used to dread math and chemistry and physics until I learned to enjoy them. Relationships seem a lot like quantum physics, bendy and vast and extraordinary. I just learned to wear high-heel shoes since being in NYC, and now I like them quite a bit. I tried surfing, but always heard the Jaws dun-nun-nun-un and got spooked. I love being in water though and I can swim far off shore for hours. Without hearing anything. I will learn Latin and Sanskrit, to read old things with nothing lost in the translation. I love taking pictures, seeing the world though a camera lens, and when I have space I will build a darkroom and spend hours at a time in it. I travel light. Camping and sleeping outside is the closest I've felt to 'God'. I try really hard to enjoy not having an itinerary in life, to enjoy the journey. It is true that I am a book whore and would spend my entire paycheck on books if I could. I often do. I love sewing soft fabrics and eating cheese with green grapes. Dimples are nice. On both sets of cheeks. I've been an EMT for nearly a third of my life and realize already that some of my most whole-feeling memories are from my years with Search and Rescue. I will cherish those times when I am old and wise and fragile. I love the saying "Be the change you want to see". I am happiest when making something (I have busy hands and like making some thing out of nothing). Knitting and sewing are like meditation. I will learn to silk-paint as well as my mother did. While I really and truly do enjoy the internet and email, I value books and sending old-fashioned handwritten notes. I adore cooking with and for the people I love. I love to love, to take good care of people. I love strangers too. People on the subway. Homeless guys and makeup counter girls and cab drivers. I am still a child inside, and an old-old woman too. I watch people in cafes and on the train and on the street. Human beings interest me, the way they interact in bars or crises or during moments of high emotion. We are all monkeys. Most everyone smiles back if you smile first. I love eye contact. And affection. I spaz without down time and can be fiercly private, which surprises me. I miss my mom and dad on a daily basis and really wish that there was a phone to the great beyond. I like losing track of time in a good book. Like falling asleep from myself for a moment. I have a vivid imagination and a bad memory. I really want to quit smoking but haven’t seemed to get the hang of it just yet. I’ll keep trying because I'm stubborn. I want to own a home and have a garden to grow things in, herbs and wildflowers and vegetables. Fruit trees too, because they are just amazing. Sweet food that grows on trees. Perfect.
Alvin Ailey, Dr. Stephen Hawking, Jesus (c'mon, the dude hung out with all the cool peeps), Christopher Walkin, Jung, Jackie Chan, MLK, Mr. Rogers (143)...
Such a music whore!... Mulatu Astatke, Leo Kottke, Ben Harper, Regina Spektor, Ali Akbar Khan, Mary J Blige, Lilly Allen, Tom Waits, Atmosphere, Dave Brubeck, Richie Havens, Dan Reeder, Erykah Badu, George Clinton, Modest Mouse, Sage, Nelly Furtado, King Crimson, Django Reinhardt, Fugees, D'Angelo, Buena Vista Social Club and co, Depeche Mode, Les Nubians, Itzhak Perlman, Sade, Delerium, Weezer, Sarah Mclachlan, Black Eyed Peas, Miles Davis, Bad Religion, Moody Blues, Massive Attack, Louis Armstrong, Vivaldi, Jack Johnson, Andrea Bocelli, 112, Maceo Parker, Blues Traveler, Pharcyde, Violent Femmes, Tori Amos, Portishead, Mazzy Star, Amon Tobin, Leonard Cohen, LL Cool J, Manu Chao, John Coltrane, Dead Can Dance
Prefaced with that I really, truly love any stupid movie that makes me laugh till' my cheeks fall off-- Hope and Glory, Jacob's Ladder, Time Bandits, Ma Vie En Rose, The Last Temptation of Christ (fab soundtrack), Europa Europa, Baraka, The Neverending Story, City of Lost Children, Maria Full of Grace, Ghost Dog, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Fog, Thumbsucker, anything Kubrick, most Tarantino, Life Aquatic, Kundun, Suicide Club, Rivers and Tides, Broken Flowers
Not a fan. But secretly, behind closed doors and with curtains drawn, I've been known to watch marathon sessions of Law and Order. Shhh...
Way the h*@$ too many... can we just say anything that's ever been written?... Fave authors include Anne Lamott, Augusten Burroughs, Rachel Carson, Bill Bryson, Isaac Asimov, Amy Tan... on and on and on...
Nola Lewis (my best-ever, sparkly-eyed, luminous mama), this kind-eyed medic from when I was 9, Kate Munger, people who are kind and generous even when no one is looking...
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