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stasia g

the trail to heaven is lined with wildflowers.....

About Me

i do like to take the time to smell the roses, as well as any other scented flowers, herbs, spices, sands, air, sea, tea, the future and our history..... i love to travel and after nearly 15 years of international motion i am settled for a few years in the pacific northwest refining my creative skills. i have a lot of love for my kindreds in the neighborhood as well as those who visit me in thought, memory, dream or the treasured phone call. i love red wine, petron & abigail's party's dangerous liason. i am equally at ease with barefeet in the garden or cycling in stilletos. i am a rider in the cruiser & bmx styles. hmmmmmm; papaya with lime, chilled coconut milk, dark cacao, sashimi, and the many good greens of the earth. i appreciate quality, substance, meaning, form, ingenuity, function, wit, adventure, honesty, romance, gestures, auspicious interactions with strangers, flying dreams, swimming dreams, long, long walks (like month long walks to places only a month of walking will take you), the ancient world and some of our modern ways. i like packing my bag to hit the road and i like returning home. i enjoy drawing, painting, writing, humming, dining, floating in warm oceans, making photographs, looking, listening, feeling, touching, contemplating at the cafe, making crafty objects, screen-printing and behaving in a bratty manner when neither expected, nor appropriate. i live to dance and would not want to live without poetry.

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My Interests

art for the sake of beauty, beauty for the sake of art.

I'd like to meet:

i'd like to meet with those i love in near & far off places - beaches, mountaintops, exotic street markets, get-down dance floors, rogue galleries, warm seas... i'd like to meet more cats. i'd like to meet georgia o'keefe, anais nin, diane ackerman, pablo neruda, henry miller, lao tsu, buddha, the sixth dalai lama, sei shonagon and banksy. i'd like to meet the inventor of a time machine. i'd like to meet those who are here to help make heaven an experience of earth. i'd also like to meet myself as a better artist - i'm working on that.

Music:

i mostly listen to hip hop, ambient, classic indian, japanese or sufi music. some particulars are; the roots, mos def, talib kweli, mazzy star, the rachels, durutti column, devendra banhart, radiohead, lorin bassnectar, adham sheikh, eve, feist, pharrell williams, the neptunes, massive attack, the hotel costes series, underworld, a lot of the 6 degree record label or interchill records, as well as the talented crew in my vicinity; jeremiah klein & tarran being two.

Movies:

the lover, dead man, house of flying daggers, hero, the protector, the princess & the warrior, lust,caution, yes, city of god, water....i love poetic nostalgias of the screen, kung-fu epics (oh bruce lee, how the world misses thee) & moving documentaries but i also take great pleasure in films that i am embarrassed to rent from the video store - like any dance movie no matter how compromised the narrative.

Television:

no tv for now

Books:

the book of tea, the pillow book, pablo neruda's odes to ordinary things, whylah falls by george elliott clarke, anything by ben okri. words by charles bukowski, jack kerouac, allen ginzberg, gary snyder, anais nin, henry miller, shunryo suzuki, diane ackerman & isabel allende. the philosophy of andy warhol by andy warhol. the writings of georgia o'keefe. the journals of frieda kahlo. i am completely enamoured with kabuki by david mack. i could spend throusands on books with inspriring imagery of art & the earth. bit by bit my library grows. come over on a rainy day for tea and reading.....

Heroes:

people who can smile when it all goes wrong. those who maintain equipoise in any situation. those devoted to living inspiring lives. those who take the risk of letting life follow the contours of dream.

My Blog

a canadian poem

maple syrupis for drinking
Posted by stasia g on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:02:00 PST

pelican

at bamfieldon the wooden boardwalkpelican (!)foraging fish from the tipsof the localsheld out handssouthern birdblown off coarseby a pinapple storm,carried to the coldalong a coast of decemberthree fe...
Posted by stasia g on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:01:00 PST

kauai, may

she picks a passionflowerfor her friend's hair,follows the scent through the mountains
Posted by stasia g on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:55:00 PST

language

your poetry comes to me with gifts to decipher -our words do not translate in equals;some meet at circumference with little relation at center sentimentwhile others secretly commune at essanceyet, dre...
Posted by stasia g on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:50:00 PST

nymphs & bohemians

nymphs and bohemians zoe says she has a date with her 'girlfriend',she then pauses an intimationthat lasts long enoughfor a thought to tangle herin the hair of her dark friend,to entwine her tightin t...
Posted by stasia g on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 06:53:00 PST