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"The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving, with passion and compassion, humor and style and generosity and kindness. -Maya Angelou

Greetings!
I Give thanks every day for the opportunity to be a positive light onto the world. I'm a dreamer, a dancer, a mover and a shaker. I make things happen and find new things to explore every day. I don't like to repeat many things more then once. I love to paint and build things...often using things that others throw away. I just want to live a peaceful life, having a few good friends and leave a trail of laughter and smiles in my wake....I love nature, travel, music, art, eccentric, kind, spiritual, and in general open minded non judgmental souls and all other living things as well!

Bottom line is....I strive to create love, joy and happiness in everything that I can, by participating in events that change lives. I want to be free. That said, I believe that none of us can truly be free until we are all free. I wish to feel through recognition, the oneness in all living things. I want to live my life the best way I know how. I just want to be me, me, who's ever changing, ever growing, and ever flowing. I wish to be surrounded by people that choose to embrace my metamorphic spirit as I will theirs yet, be consistent in the fact that we honor and love each other.

In one of my ever changing careers, was BLESSED to have a great job that rarely ever felt like work, as director of a large, state of the art contemporary art gallery. During those years I discovered that the gallery could be a natural vehicle to raise money and awareness for the things that actually made a difference in the lives of others. I concentrated my efforts to raise awareness and funding for the arts, environmental and humanitarian organizations. This chapter in my life came to a close in late 2006, prompting me to return to the Left Coast (I'm originally from L.A.)I still am into the arts, I paint and play with other mediums, but nothing to serious right now as I have been dedicating lots of time to representing a contemporary Kenyan Painter, by the name of Jacob Wachira Ezigbo and also working in some capacity to assist the work he does in Kenya with Children at the Watoto Wa Kwetu Trust, which he founded in 2004. But as far as I am concerned, art is life, or more like I try to live my life as art.

Some history....When I was a child I was bitten by the travel bug and still suffer the effects as I wish to see as much of this planet as possible while I'm here... Thus far I've traveled about in parts of North & West Africa, Europe, Latin America, Jamaica, Haiti and most recently Turkey.

Extras and essential basics: I desire to fill my days with the finer things in life, including the great outdoors, a beautiful environment, good friends and extended family -my tribe. Helping others, especially children, I enjoy sailing and kayaking (although it has been A WHILE), being pleasantly surprised, entertaining, warm nights outside, cold nights under lots of blankets, seriously great hugs..., working in my art studio, dreaming out load, reading, cycling, gardening, NPR, DANCING (especially to Reggae, African and some Dancehall), attending live music festivals, especially Jazz and Roots music.

I’ve been blessed with two beautiful and bright daughters who are now young women. Here's some VINTAGE photos of my little tribe...

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And here are the beautiful women they have grown up to be...

Cool Slideshows

My youngest daughter and I spent three weeks tromping about Turkey in Sept.2006. Here are some pictures from our most fantastic journey...

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TO SEE SOME OF MY ART EITHER GO DEEPER INTO THIS WEBSITE BY EXPLORING "MY PICS" OR GO TO www.fineartamerica.com and search FARIN GREER. I HOPE YOU ENJOY WHAT YOU SEE AND PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU WISH TO MAKE A PURCHASE.

Who I'd Like To Meet

Let's see...NEW FRIENDS! I still appreciate the old ones but it's about expansion-RIGHT?
However, ONLY super cool folks need apply!
And my dear Sistahs...please don't be shy...a women needs her Sistah friends...please reach out!..
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Music:

Ahh there is so much great music out there-
here are a few that move me -just to get started...
Miles Davis
Van Morrison
Micheal Franti & Spearhead
Bob Marley, Damian & Stephen Marley
As well as all dem Marley brothers!
Les Nubians
Ella Fitzgerald
Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson
The Stones
Cat Stephens
Wyclef Jean
Stevie Wonder
Erykah Badu
Bethovan
Zap Mama
The Soul of Cape Verde
Led Zepplan
B.B.King
Shaggy
Patsey Cline
Regina Carter
Inner Vision
Buju Banton
Fela
Kenny Barron
Neil Young
Bonnie Raitt
Almond Brothers
Monk, Bird
Steel Pulse
Lauren Hill
Nat King Cole
Arrested Development
Carlos Jobiem
Jill Scott
Soul to Soul
Sade
Al Green
Django Reinhardt
Kruder and Dorfmeister
Ali Farka Toure
Rod Stewart
Dana Owens
Jack Johnson
Salif Keita
Susannah McCorkle
Otmar Liebert
Natacha Atlas
Lucky Dube
Billy Holiday
Norah Jones
John Lennon
David Bowie
James Brown
Bach
Pachebel
Mozart
Copeland
Rogers and Hamerstein
Frankie Beverly & Maze
Marvin
Cesaria Evora
Seal
Ray Charles
Etta James
The Ink Spots
Joan Armatrading
Cat Stephens
Tracy Chapman
The Roots
The Isley Brothers
Alan Tousaint
Shuggy Otis
Elan
Portishead
Outcast
Richard Bona
Winston McAnuff
Earth Wind and Fire
yada, yada, yada
Get the picture? Yes MUSIC is GOOD!

Here's a sweet one....a lullaby for sure...

Moved by the wordsounds of Michael Franti & Spearhead...

Franti's humble presence and powerful messages strike a note deep within my soul, as did the prophetic words of the mighty Bob Marley.


Gotta love this one by the Damian & Stephan Marley too...

And well I couldn't leave this soulful soundster out....

Words of truth....

Movies:

Off the Map
Angels in the Dust
Into the Wild
The Great Debaters
The Wedding Banquet
Amistadt
Amazing Grace
Restoration
Constant Gardner
Stage Beauty
I am Sam
Memoirs of a Geisha
Being There
Swept Away
Map of the Heart
Hustle and Flow
The King and I
Off the Map
The Seven Samurai
Dancing with Wolves
Bagdad Café
Dersu Ursala
Swept Away
Shawshank Redemption
The King of Hearts
Baraka
Amandela Revolution in Four Part Harmony
Tsotsi
Chaplin
A Beautiful Mind
Edward Sizzorhands Little Miss Sunshine and many more

Television:

OUT OF THE MOUTH"S OF BABES...

Books:

A never ending pile of half read books by the bed.
And actually I have finally caught up and finished
a few recently (oh the joy of being unemployed!)
But hey here's a few: The Red Tent,
Tales from the Expat Harem (Foreign Women in
Modern Turkey, Intellectual Foreplay
The Four Agreements written by Don Miguel Ruiz
and they are as follows-Be impeccable with your word,
don’t take anything personally,
don’t make assumptions and always do your best,
and the most recent read...
ah heck...myspace -Oh that's not a book I almost forgot!

Heroes:

I could list all the obvious ones like The Dali Lama, Ghandi and Mandala to begin with....however, Albert Einstein once wrote: A human being is part of the whole,called by us "universe," limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons close to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty –Now this is my concept of a hero in a nutshell!
Here is todays HERO...
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