Spending time with my dog Vada, Surfing, backpacking, biking, kayaking, canoeing, spelunking, skiing, white water sports, fishing, crabbing, shrimping, Art, Drawing, photography, painting, creating something, writing, bookstores, critique a good painting or photograph, studying art forms, discovering new music and artists, traveling, good Quotes, history and ruins, museums, galleries, reading,an everlasting impression, some good quality time with my family and friends, a long walk on the beach, a soothing solo hike, Sleeping under the stars surrounded by mountains, spiritual accomplishments and aspirations that move me artistically and make my heart sing!
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Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. ~Max Ehrmann
This is going to be long...Alice In Chains, Otis Redding, Prince, David Bowie, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Van Morrison, Bare Naked ladies, Sublime, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Phil Collins, Velvet Underground, Peter Tosh, Bob-Ziggy-Damien Marley, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, The Band, Allman Bros., Led Zeppelin, JJ Cale, Will Hoge, Eric Clapton, Doors, Weezer, Smashing Pumpkins, Zero 7, Sia, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Stateless, NIN, Deftones,Maroon 5, The Fray, Les Claypool, Primus, NOFX, Jamiroqaui, Jack Johnson, John Mayer (yes.. especially now), Mazzy Star, Beth Orton, Stevie Nicks, Dido, Ani Difranco, Melissa Ferrick, Liz Phair, K's Choice,Indigo Girls, Tracy Chapman, Cassandra Wilson, Nina Simone, Sonya Kitchell, Kinnie Starr, Coldplay, Postal Service, DMB, Tim Reynolds, Ben Harper, Kelly Sweet, Joss Stone, Sara Evans, Everything But The Girl, STS9, Portishead, Beth Gibbons, SCI, Morcheeba, Bjork, Gnarls Barkley, Chemical Brothers, Sigur Ros, Syren, Cowboy Junkies, Sneaker Pimps,Citizen Cope, Garbage, Poe, Jude, Frou Frou, Sarah McLachlan, White Stripes, Beck, Natalie Merchant, Paula Cole, Acoustic Syndicate, North Mississippi Allstars, U2, Cake, Bill Withers, Nickel Creek, Enya, Alison Krauss, LeeAnn Womack, Rusted Root, Karl Denson, Jill Scott, Talking Heads, Perpetual Groove, Moe., Gorillaz, Toad and the Wet Sprocket, Land Squid, The Killers, Alicia Keys, The Roots, Robert Randolph, Zach Deputy, Beth Hart, Barbara Gehlman, Jennifer Nettles, Jen Bertaiux, Red Moon, Rosanne Cash, Victor Wooten, Peter Rowan, Keller Williams, Joseph Arthur, Leslie Feist, Dar Williams, Ginny Wilder, Nadia Ali, Sarah Harmer, Jenny Owen Youngs, Yeah yeah yeahs, Scissor Sisters, Bone Pony, Patty Griffin, Michael Franti, Band of Horses, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Bela Fleck, Angie Aparo, Colbie Caillat, Breck Alan, Violent Femmes,Morning Jacket, Black Crowes, String Cheese Incident, WSP, Flaming Lips, Peter Gabriel, Trey Anastasio, Sting
Love Pixar and Disney! Anything with great cinematography and story behind it. I love a movie that keeps you thinking and causes you to want to study it further. Some good ones I've seen recently are: Memoirs of a Geisha, The Family Stone, V for Vendetta, Click, Accepted, Little Miss Sunshine, Stranger Than Fiction, Everything is Illuminated, The Prestige, Blood Diamond...
Not much for the tube... but I do like to watch Nip Tuck, Bones, Adult Swim, The L Word, Weeds, and The Closer whenever I get the chance
Jack Kerouac, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Mark Twain, Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Paulo Coelho, Walt Whitman, Anne Rice, Dan Brown, F Scott Fitzgerald, E E Cummings, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Dalai Lama, Rumi, E B White, George Eliot, Miguel de Ruiz, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Moriah Mountain Dreamer... "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran...WOW! Right now I am reading "The Power of Now" a book on spiritual enlightenment.
My Grandma & Terry. Artistically thru the eyes of a photographer, Ansel Adams & Stephen Johnson.