architecture (esp. eco-friendly), Spirituality,the arts (writing/visual), my children, our children, my people, pan-Africanism, native cultures, meditation, justice, love, freedom (real freedom), healing, laughter, health, design, technology, nature, sustainability, Feng Shui, Qi Gong, capoeira, yoga, family, friends, birth, death and everything in between... not necessarily in that order.
People like you.
Jimmy Smith, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messangers, Eric Dolphy, Cesaria Evora, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Watts Prophets, Poor Righteous Teachers, Jamiroquai,Marvin Gaye, Gil Scott Heron, The Spinners, Fertile Ground, Maze and Frankie Beverly, Earth Wind and Fire, Alice Coltrane, Ice Cube, Corinne Bailey Rae, Miles Davis, Midnite, Marz, Clipse, Floetry, Snoop, Rechelle Ferrell, Cassandra Wilson, Nate King Cole, Travis Morrison Hell Fighters (Saadat, I need a CD), Raphael Saadiq, Angie Stone, Outkast, Sleepy Brown, Loide (from what I've heard so far ;^l), Wayne Shoter, Virginia Rodrigues, TI, DPGC, WC, Xzibit, Ras Kass... alright... I've got a bunch of music. I'm in love with deep soulful house music, reggae, samba, bossa nova...
City of God, Usual Suspects, Orfeo Negro, Quilumbo, Hotel Rawanda, The Vertical Ray of the Sun, many of Spike's movies (Mo Beta Blues is on of my favorites), alright... I admit it, I watch cartoons too, but I'm only screening for the children... heh heh. Very much into foreign, indie films and documentaries (like Race is the Place)
Now that I have one... but I can live without the radiation that most everyone seems to be addicted to.
The books I'm dealing with right now: "African Holistic Health" revised and expanded by Llaila O. Afrika,"Building Green" by Clarke Snell and Tim Callahan, "KMT: in the house of life" by Ayi Kwei Armah, *"From Slavery to Freedom" by John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., *"Black Movements in America" by Cedric J. Robinson, *"The Atlas of African-American History and Politics" Arwin D. Smallwood, "Modulor" by Le Corbusier. + Any books I cross reference as a result of reading these, including Oxford English Dictionary (Unabridged), American Heritage Dictionary, Random House Dictionary (Unabridged), Oxford Architectural Dictionary, Architectural Visual Dictionary (Ching). If you have suggested reading drop me a line.
All lovers of truth. Those who have elected to be soldiers in the army of healers.