Eating Mangoes, Reading, Playing Capoeira, Dancing, Printmaking, Writing and Reading Poetry, Skinnydipping in the Ocean at Night, Baking Chocolate Cupcakes topped with Kumquats, Cooking Anything, Swimming, Roaming in the Woods, Gardening, Healing my Broken Heart, Making Noise, Making Change. Inviting 100,000 Fireflies into my Room to Remind Me of Your Starry Eyes.
Old friends. Radical community organizers. Artists. Visionaries. People who love.from 'To Be Of Use', by Marge Piercy: "I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who stand in the line and haul in their places, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out.The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident. Greek amphoras for wine or oil, Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real."
Hindi Filmi, Hip-Hop, Tortured Emo Punk/Hardcore, Appalachian Old-time
chinua achebe, saul alinsky, gloria anzaldua, meena alexander, julia alvarez, james baldwin, neil bissoondath, pearl buck, noam chomsky, roald dahl, anna carson dewitt, sandra cisneros, jared diamond, annie dillard, eric drooker, ralph ellison, martin espada, eduardo galeano, kahlil gibran, amitav ghosh, emma goldman, stephen jay gould, jordan green, sunetra gupta, ernest hemingway, bell hooks, claudia horwitz, ruth jhabvala, ginu kamani, manju kapur, jee kim, milan kundera, audre lorde, grace llewelyn, antonio machado, gabriel garcia marquez, angeles mastretta, carson mccullers, maryanne mohanraj, shani mootoo, toni morrison, haruki murakami, pablo neruda, notes from nowhere, eugene o'neill, george orwell, arundhati roy, mab segrest, vikram seth, ntozake shange, shauna baldwin singh, gil scott-heron, kriti sharma,maurice sendak, dr. seuss, zadie smith, david solnit, john steinbeck, n'gugi wa thiongo, alice walker, daniel wallace, john edgar wideman, billy wimsatt, yevgeny yevtushenko