Travel, languages, history, cultures, people, art, brilliant minds, moxy, opinions, beauty (which is relative), old people (they KNOW we are going to die), being in the inquiry of everything. Tons of reading. My dream room is a library...most women think of a kitchen...books and libraries.....I am surrounded by books. Went to Ethiopia on a medical mission. Changed my life. We saw leprosy, scabies, malnutrition, cancer....these people are amazing. We would never see this here in the States. I got how lucky we are. Just to turn on the faucet to brush my teeth is a gift. Pearls spilling out of the faucet. I will never take it for granted again. I can't. I stepped into another realm. Another world most never see. Going back in the fall. I am in AWE of these people. My next fluffy trip will be Prague....because I read The Unbearable Lightness of Being 20 yrs ago. Went to Spain and her people are beautiful. Skydiving twice...and I want to go down with sharks. Taking chances. Jumping blindly into fear with no fear. I like being surrounded by things I do not understand. Keeps my mind flowing and alive.
Dead ones....Queen Elizabeth ( for her strength in the face of NO AGREEMENT ), Mother Theresa ( for her ability to be focused and devoted ), Jackie Kennedy ( for her intelligence, grace and style), Rod Serling ( fucking brilliant, ever listen to this man speak??? ) Amazing!! For those who I would like to meet with life still in them.....JENNA JAMISON!!! Camille Paglia...
All over the place. Went to high school with Pantera and supported them, but never a huge listener of the music. I remember listening to them at their house in the living room before anyone knew who they were. Sad when Dimebag died. I am a little spread out in this area... Angelique Kidjo, Morphine, Dixie Chicks, T'Pau, Lou Rawls, Johnny Cash, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Sonic Youth, Keith Urban, Janes Addiction, Stevie Wonder, Rascal Flats, Frank Sinatra, Seal, LENNY and his hot drummer chick too!!, Luther Vandross, Mystikal, Barbara Streisand, Ella Fitzgerald, Angie Stone, Anggun, Angie Martinez.....
Fargo, Raising Arizona, Elizabeth, Grease, Fog of War, Little Voice ( best acted movie EVER!! ) Snatch, Drug Store Cowboy, Royal Tenenbaum's, The Field, Raise the Red Lantern, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Apocalypse Now, Lord of the Ring and Harry Potter, Best in Show, any documentary.
Don't watch TV - but as a kid loved the Twilight Zone....that shit is still scary today.
Ooooooo........A Fine Balance, Memoirs of a Geisha, Safe House, Lord of the Ring, Clan of the Cave Bear series, Dispatches, STIFF ( fucking hilarious..the curious lives of human cadavers ), Catcher in the Rye, Siddartha, The Fountainhead, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Lab 257. Anything historical
My grandmother. For her simplicity and unhealthy cooking!!!