Unfolding, Unfolding, and Unfolding some more...
You Are a Blue Flower
A blue flower tends to represent peace, openness, and balance.
At times, you are very delicate like a cornflower.
And at other times, you are wise like an iris.
And more than you wish, you're a little cold, like a blue hydrangea. What Color Flower Are You?
The one and only... The High Priestess of Soul... Sir Miles, tellin it like it t-i tis... Queen of Scat... Mama Mahalia... Mother of Gospel... The Original Diva...Sarah, Pearl, and Ella... giving everything they had until the last hour... My girl! I discovered her before I discovered the others. She helped teach me what was possible at the beginning of my musical journey...
Influenced by...Also...My Mama, My Sister, My Aunties, Mahalia Jackson, Ella Fitgerald, Nina Simone, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Melba Liston, Pearl Bailey, Ray Charles, Roberta Flack, Marlena Shaw, Diane Schuur, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Leontyne Price, Kathleen Battle, Maria Callus, Denyce Graves, Nneena Freelon, Dianne Reeves, Donny Hathaway, STEVIE WONDER (Best Songwriter Ever), Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Fela Kuti, Monk, Marcus Roberts, Wynton Marsalis, Etta James, Rachelle Ferrell, Retha Franklin :-), Eva Cassidy, Ruthie Foster, Lizz Wright, Ledisi, Bilal, Rahsaan Patterson, Glenn Lewis, Jazzyfatnastees, Mario!, Twinkie Clark, Dorinda Clark, Karen Clark-Sheard, J. Moss, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Lashun Pace, The Clark Sisters, Nelly Furtado, Liz Phair, Maroon 5, Hoobastank, Evanescence, Matchbox 20, Avril Lavigne, Esthero, Queen, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Prince, Lalah Hathaway, Meshell Ndegeocello, Cole Porter, George & Ira Gershwin, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common, Rudy Currence, Justin Figueroa, Natasha Bedington (is that how you spell it?) And one of my most recent discoveries... Kendrick Oliver! Ok, obviously I could go on & on. But thats enough. I gave you a sprinkling.
Ray, De-Lovely, Callus Forever, Frida. I have a deep affinity for movies about really gifted people and their craziness. Makes me feel better about my own insanity. Millionaires, The Notebook, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, A Beautiful Mind, Catch Me If You Can, The Last Dragon!
Don't have a lot of time for TV, but every now and then when I just want to "shut it down" mentally for awhile, I will watch anything on the Disney Channel. What?!! {singing} Thats so Raveeeen, Its the future I can see! I am grown enough to watch kids programming if I wants to. Say sumthin!I also like Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, and when I can catch it...Girlfriends and Will & Grace.
The Prophet (And everything else by Gibran), The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, The Alchemist, Siddhartha, The Path to Love (Chopra), As A Man Thinketh, The Diaries of Anais Nin, The Celestine Prophecy, If The Buddha Dated (Highly recommended to All!), Everything by Octavia Butler, SARK, and Alice Walker. Grew up on Walter Mosley. Love Mitch Albom, James Allen. "What Momma Couldn't Tell You About Love." Thanks Kales! Just finished "The Presence Process" by Michael Brown...Life changing. Now reading "Diary of a Traveling Preacher" by Indradyumna Swami.
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." ~E.E. Cummings.I am inspired by all people who dare to be exactly who they are in a world that appears to constantly discourage personal freedom...Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Rachelle Ferrelle, O, Frida Kahlo, Octavia Butler, Molly Barker, Tiffaney Moore, Alice Walker, Dena Paulding, and my greatest hero of all, Mi Madre Barbara Ann Kirkland-Huff R.I.P. There will never be another like you... but you will never cease to live as long as I have breath.