H E A L I N G, and don't play like you don't feel me. Ayurvedic Medicine. Ecologically concious self-sufficiency. Making my art with natural materials without it becoming "organic" looking. Love in Action. Natural Medicine. Herbalism. Camping. Native Gardening. Green design and building. Carpentry and plumbing. Chickens. Hiking. Making homemade ginger beer, kombucha, and natural hair/skin products. Sunday dinner. Art. Site specific choreography esp. Noemie LaFrance. Cooking. Musical theater. Linguistics. Hair. Music. Video. Writing. Food. Fashion. Texas Hold em. East Side Sweethearts. Perfecting the Dirtbag Socialite. Stay real, Levi.
"Love has never been a popular movement. The world is held together, really it is held together by the love and the passion of very few people." -James Baldwin.I'm lookin for my people, ah.
Nina Simone, Erykah Badu, Mary J, Lucinda Willaims, Cesaria Evora, Feist, Paolo Conte, Cut Copy, Goodie Mob, T-Love, MC Lyte, Madeleine Peyroux, Bettye LaVette, India Arie, Phosphorescent, Joanna Newsom, Lyrics Born, Air Supply, Nancy Wilson, ELO, The Eagles, Huggy Bear, Freakwater, The Band, Chavela Vargas, Bahamadia, Serge, Dirty Three, Ann Peebles, Low, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Townes, Donald Byrd, Lila Downs, Pharoah Sanders, Brigitte Bardot, Albert Ayler, Blossom Dearie, Hall and Oates.
The Price of the Ticket, Moonstruck, Paris is Burning, Waiting To Exhale, Frida, Steel Magnolias, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amelie, Lost in Translation, Tortilla Soup, The Royal Tennenbaums, When We Were Kings.
Planet Earth, the series- I'm not being cynical.
James Baldwin. Thich Nhat Hanh. bell hooks. Amy Tan. Isabel Allende. Sandra Cisneros. Assata. Audre Lorde. Nan Goldin. Ana Castillo. Pema Chodron. Octavia Butler. Maya Angelou.
My Mama, my Grandma, my sisters, my brother, my Grindaddy, the whole dang fam. All my gorgeous friends and aquaintences. Nina Simone, Josephine Baker, Dolly, all those stankin divas. Thich Nhat Hanh, Assata, Wilma Mankiller, bell hooks. Don't yall get me started.