antiques, art, balance, bare feet, bdsm, being quiet, cafes, camping, cats, caught in the rain, classic literature, classical music, compassion, complexity, conversation, cooking to music, cream with coffee, creating, D/s, dark chocolate, daydreaming, dreaming, edge play, eskimo kisses, experiencing, exploring, facial expressions, fireflies, folk music, france, grinning, guilty pleasures, healing, imperfections, independent artists, indian food, intelligence, italy, kind people, kink, kissing in the rain, kitty kisses, klimt, knitting, laughing out loud, learning new concepts, lesbians, loving nature, magic, metaphysics, mischievous faeries, music in the morning, my baby, nag champa, nick drake, not watching tv, organic food, outdoors, pansexuality, passion, photography, picnics, pinball, polyamory, positive energy, pottery, pronoia, public radio, purple and orange sunsets, rain, sculpture, secondhand stores, sensuality, serendipity, servitude, sharing visions, smelly candles, smudging, soft things, solitude, soul, soy vanilla lattes, spirituality, star gazing, subtle sexuality, summer nights, sweets, synchronicity, thai food, the beauty of life, the moon, the ocean, the smell of rain, thrifting, thunderstorms, traversing, uncontrollable giggle fits, vaudeville, vintage clothing, walking, wanderlust, wanton love, warm scarves, wild women, winter, wit, women, wonder, woods, writing.
Lovers, freaks and photographers.
Art as Flirtation and Surrender
~ Rumi~
In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.
Alix Olson, Ani DiFranco, Andrew Bird, Bessie Smith, Beth Orton, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Clare Fader & The Vaudevillains, Coco Rosie, Damien Rice, Ella Fitzgerald, Emiliana Torrini, Erin McKeown, Feist, Gillian Welch, Grateful Dead, Hamell on Trial, Imogen Heap, Joan Baez, Jolie Holland, Joni Mitchell, Karen Dalton, Kinnie Starr, The Lascivious Biddies, Ma Rainey, Mason Jennings, Michelle Shocked, Nick Drake, Nina Simone, Odetta, Regina Spektor, Sarah Harmer, Sufjan Stevens, Suzanne Vega, The Be Good Tanyas, The Ditty Bops, Tom Waits, Utah Phillips
Baraka, Frida, Amelie, Delicatessen, What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?, Elizabeth, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Basquiat, Pollack, Run Lola Run, Shortbus
CSI, Six Feet Under, The L Word, Dexter, cartoons
Alice Walker, Allen Ginsberg, Anais Nin, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Deepak Chopra, Hafiz, Henry David Thoreau, Howard Zinn, Hunter S. Thompson, Inga Muscio, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Campbell, Kahlil Gibran, Ken Kesey, Marcel Proust, Mary Oliver, Maya Angelou, Michelle Tea, Paulo Coehlo, Pema Chodron, Pete Winslow, Richard Brautigan, Rilke, Rob Brezsny, Robert Pirsig, Rumi, Sarah Waters, Shel Silverstein, Tom Robbins, Voltaire, Walt Whitman
Deepak Chopra, Buddha, Rumi, Dalai Lama and Ghandi