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Things that make me happy: Yoga, traveling, learning languages, dancing, cats, candlelight, lighting design for dance, climbing volcanos in Indonesia, the vastness of the ocean, the sun's colorful performance as it sets, Ayu Laras and Gde Sanjaya, cooking with my mama, taking introspective walks around the Lake Shrine, orchids and succulents, Dobson, sushi, the Peliatan Padang place, my black sand beach at Delod Brawah, the smell of kretek while drinking a Teh Botol and listening to Truna Gandrung, gazing at the blue waters from El Morro in Viejo San Juan, hummingbirds.
Today? Barack Obama. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU
Currently rocking the following on my iPod: Cudamani/Odalan Bali. Juan Luis Guerra/La Llave de mi Corazon. Nawal/Aman. M.I.A./Arular. CHANNEL H/HIFANA/Tanglang. Chicago Symphony/Scheherazade. Stevie Wonder/Songs in the Key of Life. My jegog/joged bamboo mix. Duncan's stellar African mix. Paddy's Puri Mas recordings. Sara Tavares/Balance. Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax/Brahms Double Concerto and C minor piano trio. And many others...
I LOVE to read (by this, I mean recreational reading - all of the reading I did in grad school, with minor exceptions, does not count)...here are some of my all time favorites: Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda; all things Paramahansa Yogananda; Bhagavad Gita; the Harry Potter series, The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho; Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert; anything and everything related to Indonesia; all things uplifting and inspiring; mysteries...in addition to the above, I am a Smithsonian and National Geographic JUNKIE. If I hadn't become an ethnomusicologist, I'd probably have fulfilled my childhood fantasy of becoming a paleontologist...What I wish I had time to read right now: the Harry Potter series in Bahasa Indonesia...
Mom and Dad...my infinitely amazing example of divine love.