teaching; Ashtanga yoga; asana adjustments; surfing small waves on my longboard; double runs in pinochle; bridge; Russel Banks; William Faulkner; Maya Angelou; Tori Amos; becoming a better person; learning acceptance; knowledge; knowing and being known...
Jon Stewart (come on, I can't be the only person in the world who thinks he's sexy.)
Tori Amos; Joni Mitchell Portishead; Zero 7; Iron and Wine; Air; Stereolab; Coldplay; Butthole Surfers; Fugazi; Tool (blush); Beck (Seachange); Kate Bush; Cocteau Twins; Savasana music; Bjork; Andrew Byrd; Radiohead; Neil Young; Flaming Lips; Jack Johnson; The Shins; Rogue Wave...
not so good at this one...American Beauty; Whale Rider; Snatch; Wonderboys...and of course, Dead Poet's Society
when i remember: The Daily Show; The Colbert Report; I Shouldn't Be Alive (scary shit, man)
Any book by Russel Banks...especially Continental Drift + Affliction..ahhhhh! Poisonwood Bible; Life of Pi; Secret Life of Bees; Brave New World; Walden Two; Frankenstein; Trinity; Bluest Eye; Confederacy of Dunces; Black Elk Speaks; Joy Luck Club; Wonderboys; any of Campbell's books about mythology; The Yoga Sutras; Yoga Mala; Iyengar's Book of Yoga; Breath, You are Alive. Anything about Jewish people: My Name is Asher Lev; The Chosen; Moses. Books that made me love books: Interview with a Vampire; A Tale of Two Cities; Pride and Predjudice. Fiction that changed my life: The Awakening; Beast in the Jungle; As I Lay Dying; Heart of Darkness. God, I could go on forever!CURRENT OBSSESSION: Finishing my masters, so currently re-reading Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried.
Famous: Maya Angelou; William Faulkner; Russell Banks; Tori Amos; Gandhi; The Buddha; Jesus; Dali LamaFamous to Me: John C. Rowe (professor); Holly Cannon (professor); Mary Breckenhoff (professor); Dorothy Lowry (English teacher); Ted Overland (husband); Chris Allen (taoist yoga instructor who married us; Susan Normandia (friend); Michelle Summers (freind).