* the Yogas, the seas,aromatherapy,creative writing/poetry, environmental and nature/wildlife activism, meditation, art,Vastu design,painting, calligraphy, my Sumi-e board and learning to write kanji,dancing,chakra meditations,yantra meditations,color theory, Assateaugue National Seashore/Maryland, Self-Realization Fellowship-Pacific Palisades/California and College Park, Maryland, Baja California, Insight Meditation Community of Washington.~ Photography, frequent trips to NYC for my big city fix, mountain biking, and camping at the beach....and, plan to travel overseas, to see the world.. ..and, waiting patiently for the cherry blossoms to bloom this Spring in DC.* * artist Nick La , " Sakura " *
((Dharma))fun-seekers on positive paths, friends I already know, and friends I have'nt met yet. Fellow beginner Yogis and Yoginis,creative minds,or, people in the same career field. Finns, too.. * the next president of the United States, what She's made of..Stevie Wonder, the President of Finland, Tarja Halonen, so I can ask her what it was like to dance with James Brown and Conan O' Brien... a good masseur,Dr. Tara Brach, and the health specialist Dr. Gary Null. and, lastly,*the force that creates Coincidences* ~
Daily kirtan chanting. Everyday, in the a.m. gives me daily peace!~NPR,www.WPFW.org 89.3FM, Pacifica Radio,www.KCRW.Org/Santa Monica, California, www.WETA.org/90.9 FM www.BETALOUNGE.com,www.WAMU.org/88.5FM, WashingtonDC, 90.7FM, New York City.-A Sampling of some fave musicians- - Anouar Brahem, Anoushka Shankar, Earth, Wind,and Fire, Uman,Chemical Brothers,Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, George Harrison,Santana with John McLaughlin/A Love Supreme,Miles Davis, T-Monk,Stan Getz, Astrud and Bebel Gilberto,Renee Fleming, Opera Babes,OsiBisa, Italian composers,Paganini, Puccini, Bistro Erotica Italia, Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac, Ennio Moricone, The Raveonettes, Ladytron,Savoy Brown,Kiri Te Kanawa, Opera Babes, Medieaval Baebes,Carole King,Patty Griffin, Dinah Washington,Sly and the family Stone, WAR,Joss Stone, Throttlerod/N.C.,Propaganda, The Afterlife Lounge,Torch Song,Cocteau Twins,Project Divinity/Finland,Varttiina,Finnish metal/rock/folk,Jimmy Smith, Jean Sibelius,Tchaikovsky,NYC/LA punk,Madness,The Jam,Francoise Hardy, Candi Staton,Stereo Total,Janet Marie Rogers/spoken word/Native American poetess, Saint Etienne, Sarah Brightman, Jah Works, Tosh, Marley,Ziggy, Steel Pulse,Topaz, Ben Harper, Shanghai Traditional Chinese Orchestra,Siouxsie,Berlin,the Autumns, Style Council, Gang of Four, Velocette, Pretenders, the Police.
The Seventh Seal,Little Miss Sunshine,Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Manchurian Candidate, The Acid House, The Notebook, Pillow Book, Camille Claudel,Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?,2001, Katherine Hepburn films, Don't Look Back/Bob Dylan, Mayor of Sunset Strip,Mr Deeds,Belle De Jour! Catherine Denueve films, hands down, Five People You Meet In Heaven, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, all John Candy films,Vanilla Sky,Endless Summer, Zabriskie Point, La Femme Nikita, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Matrix,Stripes, Best In Show, What the Bleep Do We Know?, et cetera, et cetera.Films for the thinking/feeling/experiencing man and woman.
sometimes.my yoga and t'ai chi DVD's, movie DVD's, Style Network for my girlie-fashion/runway and beauty fix. Canadian cable, 20/20,BBC news, int'l news, local weather, public tv, Classic Arts Showcase, Animal Planet/Jeff Corwin Exp., OLN, Benny Hill for laffs,SciFi, Disc. Channel.,Oxygen, Health Channel. *
Kahlil Gibran~ The Prophet, The Beloved, The Prophecies of Love...Way Of The Peaceful Warrior, by Dan Millman,Tennyson, poets~Sri Chimnoy,Whitman, Poe, Vein of Gold,by Julia Cameron, The Power Of Now,Kundalini Yoga, by Shakti Kaur Khalsa,Living Yoga,by Christy Turlington, The Celestine Prophecy,Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With The Heart of a Buddha,Tolkien,The Unbearable Lightness Of Being,New York Times, WashingtonPost,the Wall Street Journal,Anna Karenina, War and Peace/Tolstoy, The Blind Assassin,The Zen of Seeing, Ines of My Soul, Women's Bodies Women's Wisdom, Motiba's Tattoos,Beowulf,the Odyssey,Lord of the Rings, Diva,The Sheltering Sky, by Paul Bowles,Garden of Eden/Hemingway, (not a big Hemingway fan, otherwise) Seeds From A Birch Tree, Sisters of The Earth, women nature writers, Color by Betty Edwards,the Odyssey,anything by Paul Bowles, biography of Winston Churchill, Backlash by Susan Faludi, Autobiography of James Joyce.
* my mom and dad, my first Bodhisattvas *
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