making animal friends! the moon (full ones especially), rubbing faces, clay! trail running, tapirs, Wen, lunch break work ladies with bright white sneakers, biting teeth, stretching! breezes, honking in tunnels, art libraries, overcast, ants on a log (the snack), cob housing, owl pants, people watching, frisbee, potlucks, lots of dinosaurs, ORGANIC dutch ovens, herbavores, festivals, carbs!, crabs!, making my everything, repeating punch lines of other peoples jokes by accident, religion, hiking + biking, snail mail from europe, anthropology, repeat patterns, currents, the backs of cereal boxes, free cone day, learning & teaching, phosphorescent waters, sharing stories with strangers, creating my installation, recycling, doing new things, and of course SAILING!
people who can make sense of my loss for words. dancers. people who light their habitats well. survivors. minimalists. hopefully some day i'll have an alpaca farm of my own :-D abby, me and crazy kelly. i ran into this beautiful stranger (abby) on a Lotus boat show in NY. never seen her in my life, but we instantly recognized each other across the room and ran to one another like seperated childhood friends. i'd like to meet more people like that!!! gopher tortoise i met in Flagler's marshes | hangin' in the coop! my other half displayed here in a water shell. native artists Al Qoyawayma and Star Liana York all the beautiful and mysterious layers of pre-columbian art and culture
|dmb, grateful dead, string cheese, bela fleck, nickel creek, pink floyd, joanna newsom, lotus, dead can dance, leo kottke, josé gonzáles, neil young, radiohead, afro celt sound system, johnny cash, phish is okay, bob marley, the police, jack johnson, tim reynolds, norah jones, csn, talking heads, bisco, joni mitchell, gorilliaz, STS9, john butler trio, iron + wine, toots + the maytals, manu chao, xavier rudd, angelique kidjo, ratatat, keller williams, railroad earth, brett dennen, hendrix, beirut, west philadelphia orchestra, steel pulse, peter bjorn + john, yonder mountain string band, boards of canada, jj cale, fleetwood mac, putumayo (all collections get me off), the shadow orchestra, john coltrane, doors, animal collective, sigur ros, yanni (born and raised on it, actually), beach boys, arcade fire, cake, dj harry, flaming lips, !!!, bob weir + ratdog, santana, umphrey's mcgee, badly drawn boy, alison krauss + union station, g love, queen, miles davis, beatles, tabla beat science, mos def, lcd sound system, ani difranco, leslie fiest, michael franti + spearhead, damien rice, beck, air, sea + cake, broken social scene, bjork, ben harper, stan getz, m. ward, mississippi john hurt, rjd2, sergio mendes + brasil '66, mogwai, les claypool, brazilian girls, yeah yeah yeahs, j5, bright eyes, guster, beta band, moby, upenn off the beat, john prine. thankie connor for some of these gifts :-)
national geographic, discovery channel, travel channel, animal planet, food network
j.redfield, h.s.thompson, a.huxley, j.kerouac, dalai lama, d.quinn. other than that some other favorites are: american psycho, art of war, quantum & the lotus, big fish, chronicles of narnia, the art of war, the quantum and the lotus, diet for a new america, curious incident of the dog in the night time, hope for the flowers!
my mom, dad, brother, and grandmother. animals, che, b.boyd, vladimir kush, klimt, dali, all the masters of deception, ron fricke, john robbins, and the beautiful natives of our country that put up with all of this american bullshit. ...