seeing live music any chance I get - organic cooking - Rumi - mate with soy milk - artichokes - NPR - Maria Montessori - words - humidifiers - dancing - Scrabble - my record player/collection - MC Escher - kombucha - public transportation - Adbusters and National Geographic - eating grapefruit in bed - people watching on Colfax - writing
Maria Montessori, Joni Mitchell, Rumi, Mary Magdalene"I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation." -Albert Hoffman
"When words leave off, music begins." -Heinrich Hei --- I will travel the world to see Sound Tribe Sector 9. They play with such purpose, that in turn I find every movement I make, every step of my dance is filled with that same kind of positive purpose. I've also recently renewed my love and respect for the DJ and am diggin' all the thunderous sounds and funky beats that make me groove.Otherwise, to a list that is constantly growing and slightly random, here are a few listed from my iPod: Ani Difranco, Anoushka Shankar, An-ten-nae, Arrested Development, Augustus Pablo, The Band, Bassnectar, The Bays, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Biodiesel, Blind Melon, Bonnie Raitt, Boombox, Boreta, Curtis Mayfield, Dao, David Grisman, David Starfire, Digable Planets, Dr. Didg, EdIT, Edith Piaf, Emmylou Harris, Eliot Lipp, EOTO, Erykah Badu, Frou Frou, Gillian Welch, The Gladiators, The Glitch Mob, The Greyboy Allstars, Hamsa Lila, Herbie Hancock, Herbie Mann, Inka Wayra, Israel Vibration, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Jamie Janover, Jamiroquai, Jerry Garcia, John Denver, John Hartford, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Jurassic 5, Kraddy, Lauryn Hill, Leftover Salmon, Mark Farina, MMW, M.I.A., Midival Punditz, Miles Davis, Morcheeba, The Mutaytor, Ooah, Paul Simon, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, The Pnuma Trio, Prefuse 73, Rahzel, Ray LaMontagne, Regina Spektor, The Seedling Escape, Shakti, The Slip, St. Germain, Steel Pulse, SCI, Sub-id, Sub Swara, Susan Tedeschi, Talking Heads, Telefon Tel Aviv, Tori Amos, Traffic, Urubamba, US3, Van Morrison, Vibesquad, Victor Wooten, Zilla...
Life is Beautiful, Garden State, American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, Across the Universe, Hideous Kinkey, The Triplettes of Bellville, Once, V for Vendetta, Monsoon Wedding, City of God, Scrapple, Pan's Labyrinth, Little Miss Sunshine, Himalaya, Bottle Rocket, Saved, Dogma, Babel, Borat, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Blue Collar, Into the West, Tsotsi, Electric Apricot, The Prestige, The Jerk, The Harder They Come, I Heart Huckabees, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Troop Beverly Hills, Overboard...
The Absorbent Mind, Understanding the Human Being, One Thousand White Women, The Red Tent, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Roots, Mila 18 and Exodus, Celestine Prophecy, Memoirs of a Geisha, anything by James Michener, Kite Runner, The Namesake, The Other Boleyn Girl, Taveling Mercies, The Lorax, Where the Wild Things Are, The Gift of the Magi, and the Harry Potter books.
"When we speak of education we are proclaiming a revolution, one in which everything we know today will be transformed." -Maria Montessori