dance, music, reading, japa walks, travel, suprises,
India, cooking, creating, hooping, love, tea, spices, poetry, dark chocolate, *wobbles*, exploration, nature, silliness, chinese medicine, spoken word, art in all forms, love.love.love.
I'd like to meet:
devotees~dancers~diggers & castle builders.......
Music:
Anything with SOOOUUULLL .... bhajans ~ ALWAYS!!! seeee my plaaaayyyylist..
Movies:
YES! Everything from ~ Gilda to Turning Point, Belle de Jour to Before Night Falls, Born Free to Drop Dead Fred, I am Cuba to Room With a View, Born into Brothels to Latcho Drom, Resevoir Dogs to any good movie!!! + most films from Almodovar, Kubrick, Godard, The Coen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch, and Jim Henson
Books:
Devotional books ~ especially The Jaiva Dharma ... also, all stories by Cuelho, Marquez, Morrison, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Sedaris, Anais Nin and Henry Miller, ~ as well as ~ Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, The Little Star of Bela Lua, Lakota Woman, Bobos in Paradise, Lolita, and Buffalo Woman Comes Singing.... ~ AND... my FAVORITE poets ~ Paz, Neruda, Lorca, Whitman, Thoreau, Ginsberg, Li-Young Lee, Rumi, and T.S. Eliot...
Heroes:
My TRUE hero ~ my beloved Gurudeva ~ Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja ~ all the pure devotees who have given us immeasurable mercy ~ and everyone else in this world who renders service in the name of love ~
lastly ~ My father, who lived every moment with uncanny passion and fervor ~ who made entire dinners at 3:00am., enlightened me on everything from Buddhism to Baryshnikov and who wrote in all my history papers a small but strong argument explaining how Rome was built on the backs of Greek slaves ~ R.I.P ~... ~ My mother, whose strength and sacrifice was so profound we called her "the battleship" I couldn't have asked for a more loving and devoted mother, because of her I have deep deep gratitude ~ My brother, the only one who salsa dances with me in the living room with EQUAL enthusiasm and who astounds me continually with his quest for justice, human rights, and good jazz at roscoe's chicken & waffles ~ My friends, who are the sweetest and most beautiful people I know ~ and finally Balaram, my biggest hero ~ who opened a door to my heart and my spirit ~ i could write a chapter on that one...!!!!
