survival. breathing. spending constructive and relaxing time with my wonderful family and friends of all ages. music. my bands. life in St Louis, Missouri. life everywhere. travel. teaching and learning. helping make the party happen. all kinds of dance, singing and playing guitar, dancing to drums. caring for my young baby-friends. cooking, baking, sharing food with friends. potlucks. wire sculpture. frisbee. photgraphy. water. love, in all its sweet and savory manifestations.
Friends who want to cook and eat good food together, delighting in the joy of the company and the wonderful community breaking bread together brings. Yep. Teachers, students, music-makers, frisbee-players. Bellydancers, doulas, healers. People who love what they do. I want to meet people who know that happiness is a choice, and then choose it. I'd like to meet people who love to dance to live music. Let's go!
Maid*Rite and Forbidden Fruit Snacks (of course!) *Live music*, especially for dancing. All kinds, good time, old time, music from around the world. Gillian Welch, Europa, Simon and Garfunkel, Hossam Ramzy, Rivermen, The Ditty Bops, Heavy Weather, Indigo Girls, Haley Bonar, Hazel Dickens, Celia, Stacy Earle, Ann Tkatch, Alice Gerard, Be Good Tanyas, Luncinda Williams, the everybodyfields, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Bad Folk, John Denver, Natalie Merchant, Carter Family, Pink Floyd, Willie Nelson, Hamza el Din, Raquy and the Cavemen, Uncle Earl, Clarence and Armolee Green, Bill Monroe, Louvin Brothers, Bad Livers, Hank Williams Sr, Johnny Cash, Folk Uke, anything with vocal harmonies, especially by women. Funk whenever I can get it. Did I mention drums? Drums. Excuse me, I have to dance.
Maid*Rite documentary by Kristy Guttmann "You Can Call Me Sweetheart", Brief History of Time, Stretch by Sue Zeilstra, MASH, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, all the Coen brothers' work, the Pather Panchali trilogy, Somewhere in Time, foreign films, documentaries!
Have lived happily and more productively without one for five years.
Thesaurus, big dictionaries, atlas. My StL street guide. How to. NYTimes. The Creative Habit, Too Loud a Solitude, The Westing Game, Sula, Ayn Rand, EM Forster, The Awakening, Survival in Auschwitz, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Art of Pilgrimage, George and Martha, A Woman On Paper: letters of Georgia O'Keeffe, Like Water for Chocolate, Tao Te Ching, Rebecca, HP, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, all the Little House books. I used to get in trouble in school for reading all the time instead of doing my homework, but now I just don't get into trouble. Much. Now reading letters of Martha Gellhorn--from StL, journalist, traveller.
everyone who has encouraged my travels, Helen Keller, Anne Frank, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Loretta Lynn, Corrie ten Boom, Margaret Sanger, Frank Zappa, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexander Calder, Charles and Ray Eames, Rumi, Ann Haubrich, Ellen Raskin, Martha Gellhorn, Peg Morris, every woman I know making music, my parents Sandra Lee and Greg, and my brothers