i like living with the divine, contemplative and sacramental spirituality, the value of simplicity, histories and herstories, archaeology, hebrew, the Near/Middle East, things sweet-dark-and-strong, yerba mate, wine, ecological literacy, theology and environmentalism, geography, politics, pluralistic dialogue, learning religious/cultural traditions, dancing with abandon, musical events, incense, nargila, backlava and turkish delight, and obviously fine fellowship with heart-friends..
I'd like to meet:
someone who drinks more yerba than i rastafarians wannabe ninjas and pirates tree dwellers armenians aramaeans assyrians eco-theologians mystics of all sort poetic-philosophers activist-historians lovers of life.Word! to tha Wardrobe, sucka!
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Music:
I think of music as a gateway to the sublime. Enter through it with purpose, yet revel in the passing.
With that said, i guess some fav's from my musical palette will suffice: Collective Soul, Idan Raichel, Enya, Limbonius, the Strokes, Project 86, Subliminal, Bob-Damian-Ziggy Marley, Matisyahu, Tegan and Sara, the Dingees, The Gypsy Kings, Boney M, Postal Service, Mr. Bungle, Jack Johnson...
but still, i can appreciate most things that comes my way
Movies:
foreign, indie, epics, docu's, mocku's, and all those other really good ones.
Television:
CBC news, the simpsons, classic SNL, seinfeld, arrested development, and CPAC (go canadian politics!)
Books:
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?" I admit, i am one of those who collects books with great intentions, though have trouble getting around to read them... My all-time fav. gots to be the classic fantasies: Silmarillion-Unfinished Tales-Hobbit-LOTR, Chronicles of Narnia, the Shannara series, Pendragon Cycle, Song of Albion, etc... and who could forget Dune!!! Also: Life of Pi, The Great Divorce, Byzantium, Testament- Nino Ricci, The Source- James Michener, The God we never knew- Marcus Borg, I and Thou- Martin Buber, The Trouble With Islam Today- Irshad Manji, Life Abundant- S. McFague...
Heroes:
are fellow beings whose life and legacy beam heaven through time and space, inspiring me with their visionary ideas, achievements and emulatable experiences... though this is but a short list of a select few...Yeshu haNotzri, St. Francis of Assisi, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Menno Simons, Soren Kierkegaard, George Perkins Marsh, Benjamin Disraeli, Henry David Thoreau, George MacDonald, Leo Tolstoy, John Muir, Martin Buber, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Thomas Merton, Bob Marley, David Suzuki, and my newest heroin: Irshad Manji.
