When you dance your heart sings and rises to the heavens. Film, theatre, music, photography, reading, riding my bike, farmers' markets, antiques, pen pals, tea, love, ocean, mountains, giant grasshoppers, watching strawberries grow!, animals, hot air balloons(even though I've never benn in one), trapeze artists, Big Sur, scientists, bio diesel and electric cars
fire dancers, Jesus, Meryl Streep, Tinky Winky from the Teletubbies, Superman..or just a nice man who is taller than me and can fly.
"The music provides the dancer's floor. It's the reason for us to move. Without music we don't want to move."--George Balanchine There's so much music I love it seems impossible to list. but I guess to name of few: Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Otis Redding, Billie Holiday, Patti Griffin, All songs on Oh Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack, Dolly Paron, Radiohead, The Shins, Buena Vista Social Club, Musicals like Les Mis., Chicago, Annie, Cabaret, Chopin, Beethoven, Devendra Banhart, Rufus Wainwright, Ani Difranco, Etta James, The Pointer Sisters, Lou Reed, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Peggy Lee, Antony & The Johnsons, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Kenny Rogers, Lucinda Williams, Sarah McLaughlin, Carole King, Beyonce, Paul Simon, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Bjork, Portoisehead, Nick Drake, Edie Brickell, Sade, The Kinks,The Sways...
Genghis Blues, Murder Ball, Spellbound(Documentaries), Children of Men, Apocalypse Now, Billy Elliot, Overboard, Breaking The Waves, Anchorman, The Hours, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Amelie, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Witches of Eastwick, The Misfits, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Mermaids, Goonies, Christmas Vacation, Elizabeth, Spirited Away, Vertigo, Birds, To Kill A Mockingbird, Shawshank Redemption, Sophie's Choice, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, I Heart Huckabees, Jaws, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Neverending Story, Labryinth...
thank you for being a friend travel down the road and back again your heart is true you're a pal and a confidant...and if you threw a party invited everyone you knew...you would see the biggest gift would be from me and the card attached would say...thank you for being a friend.--theme song from the Golden Girls, they just don't make T.V. like they used to.
words...Currently reading: Henry Miller's "Big Sure And The Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch"... and also most recent favorite "Dreaming In Cuban" by Christina Garcia and Rudolpho Anaya's "The Man Who Could Fly and Other Short Stories" Don Volo, the storyteller of the story within a story, proclaims he was there, “at that moment of magic,†when the impossible became possible.Other stories delve into the magical and spiritual world of the Mayas and the Incas.
wonder women, single mothers, teachers, Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, Paul Pena