...and I love art history, vintage fashion sketches, taking walks with my love and my dog at night, traveling to exotic locations, watching old movies, spending time with my girlfriends, creating jewelry, sketching, attending museums, architecture, french sculpture, obscure wines, vineyards, B&W photography, photojournalism, writing short stories, investigative reporting, being true to myself.
I wish to network with creative and spiritual people who walk with GRACE and live in the light of the TRUTH.
Romantically, no one. I have met the man whom I will spend the rest of my life with. I have a "great" dog. I have everything I want in life. Why mess it up?
" Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction."
Translation: " Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." - The Little Prince
Jazz (Nina Simone, Ornette Coleman, Jaco Pastorius,
Michael Brecker, Meshell Ndegeocello, Astrud Gilberto, Stephane Grapelli, The Yellowjackets, David Sanborn, The Pat Metheny Group, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis and John Coltrane), R&B (Earth,Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder,Take 6, Will Downing, Michael McDonald, Chaka Khan, Luther and Boz Scaggs), Funk (The Brand New Heavies) Poets (Dylan and Mos Def), classical (Mozart, Bach and Vivaldi), old school soul music (Sly Stone, James Brown, The Three Degrees, Minnie Riperton, Al Green and Marvin Gaye), rock (James Taylor, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Loggins & Messina, Springsteen, Eagles and The Doors), Contemporary Latin (Buena Vista Social Club, Marc Anthony, Luis Miguel) and listening to my boyfriend Danny Mann when he performs. I also enjoy old French, Brazilian and Italian music (Edith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Jobim and Mina).
Breakfast at Tiffanys, Moonstruck, French Kiss, Freeway, The Big Hit, The Godfather Parts I and II, Oceans 11 and 12, This Property is Condemned, Funny Face, Sabrina, Roman Holiday and 50's and 60's foreign films. Directors Pedro Almodovar, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Francis Ford Coppola, Federico Fellini, Spike Lee and Blake Edwards films.
Deadwood, Entourage, Sex in the City, My Wife and Kids, Dave Chapelle, CSI: Miami, HDTTV, The History Channel, A&E Biography and TV Land old reruns of I love Lucy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda and That Girl.
For Fun...Fiction: Breakfast at Tiffanys, The Little Prince, Scruples, The Mists of Avalon, Mistral's Daughter and I'll Take Manhattan.
For my Soul...Non-Fiction: The Complete works of Plato, Voltaire, Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jack Kerouac, Simone de Beauvoir, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alice B. Toklas, Greek Mythology, Beat Poetry, European Art in the Middle Ages | Renaissance | Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries | Nineteenth Century | Twentieth Century,The World of Coco Chanel and periodicals on American History.
My grandparents the formidable Ramona Calderone Gil and Carlos Gil whose loving guidance led me to my grace and truth and empowered me to succeed with confidence...
the inimitable Lola Olmo Mendoza who taught me to love unconditionally and loved me in return...
and my Charly who teaches me to live in the moment with a child's heart.
" Mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le cœur."
Translation: " But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart." - The Little Prince