Being with the woman I love, Herma. Travel. Meeting people. Listening to music recorded & live. Being with Friends. Photography. Reading. Drawing/Painting. Sound Engineering. Riding my bike. Walking. IT.
Bands & Promoters - Genuine people!
Sooooo much I don't know where to start!! No great opera fan...but even here are some amazing moments! My friends gives a good idea of what I like.
A Fish called Wanda. The Last Samurai, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Lathe of Heaven. Most Mel Brooks & woody Allen films. The inside man. Walk the line. wild hogs (no story but its fun!). Shrek. Any of Johnny Depp's work. Anchor Man.
Taxi cab confessions. Top gear. Two & a half men. Faulty Towers. Porridge. Documentaries, Si-Fi. Science programs, Interviews - sort of biographical ones. Live music.
Spike Milligan's books leave me in tears of Laughter. Memories,Dreams & Reflections - C G Jung. Siddhartha in particular & all else by Hermann Hesse. Deepak Chopra. Samurai Samuel The Englishman who opened Japan (what a story!). Fury on Earth - A Biography of Wilhelm Reich. Lord Cochrane - Seaman Radical Liberator. Any thing from Aldus Huxley The Ginger Man - JP Donleavy. All by Ursula Le Guin to name a few.
I admire so many people!Here are some Favorite Quotes to give you a flavor....Find Happiness -- The Yoda WayA man does what he can until his destiny reveals its self.~Samurai~."Nothing great can be achieved without persistent hard work". ~Winston Churchill~."Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty"...~Adair Lara~."I believe that universal spiritual feeling is the noblest incitement to scientific research".~Albert Einstein~."The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant... We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift".~Albert Einstein~."The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart".~Helen Keller~."Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything... even when you can not foresee the outcome"... ~ ~Deepak Chopra~."For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else". ~Winston Churchill~."There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction". ~Winston Churchill~."Yesterday is history...Tomorrow is a mystery... Today is a gift, that is why it is called the Present"... ~unknown~."Live as if you were to die tomorrow... Learn as if you were to live forever".~ Mahatma Gandhi~."It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right". From Thus Spoke Zarathustra.~Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)~"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true". ~John Lilly~."Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command". ~unknown~."Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond belief"... ~Nelson Mandala?~"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind". ~William James~. "Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, it says more about them (& their past experiences) than about you". ~unknown~."All the cosmos is a single substance of which we are part... God is not an external manifestation, but everything that is"...~Spinoza~."Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure... life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing"... ~Helen Keller~."A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security".~Albert Einstein~. "Higher consciousness, enlightenment, comes from meaningful experiences and lessons passed with the understanding that there truly is only one law - the Law of Love. When one leads a life expressing this belief, the mind and heart begin to open to new realities, and other dimensional truths become known". ~Dr. Norma Milanovich & Dr. Shirley McCune~."I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out." ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning~."If you hear a voice within you saying 'You are not a painter, then by all means paint...and that voice will be silenced."~Vincent van Gogh~."Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."~Winston Churchill~."Sometimes Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on, Sometimes it is a coping strategy that works". ~unknown~."I understand with love comes pain, but why did I have to love so much?" ~unknown~."Imagination is the beginning of Creation I imagine what I desireI will what I imagineand at last I create what I will". ~unknown~."Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves".~Carl Jung~."The man who can see all creatures in himself and himself in all creatures, knows no sorrow" ~Eesha Upanishad~."Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live the life you imagined! As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness" ~Henry David Thoreau~."If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another".~Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)~."There is no way to peace - peace is the way".~Abraham Johannes Muste (1885-1966)~."You can always tell when politicians are lying Their lips move".~Max Headroom~.Oh baby! &.........it's yours!~Herma~. <img alt="Put Your Foot Down" src="http://www.thesoleofafrica.org.za/Resources/soaban ner_largesquare.jpg" width="300" height="250"