Outdoorsy. Fishing, trekking/hiking, camping, cycling in that order.Film, mythology, world cultures metaphysics, religio-cultural history and traditions,Literature (my major in school).
Like minded individuals for networking in the fields detailed; friends and associates.By the way, the next time you feel compelled for whatever reason to pick up a gun.... (IMMEDIATELY BELOW ON THE PAGE)Have a listen to Pops Witherspoon, and the advice he gives to Ice Cube in the Fridays movie...Good advice for a young man, and I daresay for what we all confront as a nation!!!The modern day, 21st Century version of Johnny Got His Gun, compressed into one cinematic scene.A cautionary tale for everyone who has stared mutually assured destruction in the eye, and had the rarer courage of having wisdom enough to be the one to blink!!!!
You name it: Jazz, and standards; early Pop, on to Motown and Rock; little Country by virtue of the early 70's Hacienda Rock tradition; funky dance music and fusion(the pre-Smooth Jazz era, please?), Alternative acoustic-based, lyric-driven music and its predecessors such as Joni Mitchell and Don Mclean. So drained on the Nihilism. Visualize/Actualize! Entirely within our inherited capability! If you can't see or feel it, you'll never be able to speak on it compellingly, eh?!Oh Yes, inspriational lyrics from any genre (even if they needed translation).
What Dreams May Come, The New World (recent and good treatment of the literary record of the era), Being There, The Grand Canyon, Dersu Uzala the Hunter(Akiro Kurasawa), True Romance and Pulp Fiction, The Little Buddha and The Last Emperor(Bernardo Bertolucci).
Dare I say not enough quality, unless I can catch a film the ilk of the above topics. Sporting events, History and Discovery Channels; live performance, musical and dramaturgy.
Talk writers as opposed to titles: Louise Erdrich, Joyce Carol Oates, Barbara Kingsolver, Leslie Marmon Silko, Walter Mosely, Chester Himes, Derek Walcott, and Toni Morrison, Lao-Tsu, Kabir, Black Elk, E.L. Doctorow, Ralph Ellison.
My teacher since teen-aged, Prem Rawat( see more info. at maharaji.net, wordsofpeace.org and tprf.org); Shri Hans (Prem Rawat's father) Kabir the Poet(one of both of the formers' favorites), Lao Tsu, Joseph Campbell, MLK, my folks, my siblings, and my daughters.Moses, who healed my daughter (see energylinkhealing.com).Oh yeah, not to be forgotten, Albert Einstein (Read a collection of his Essays on Humanism, and you will know why).Dr. Mazizi Kunene, former professor at UCLA, Poet Laureate of South Africa,world renowned author,who recently joined the ancestors.