Writing poetry, reading poetry, listening to poetry, connecting and hanging out with other poets, listening to beautiful inspiring music, creating art, traveling, photography, learning new languages, meeting new like-minded people/different cultures, yoga, meditation, self development and personal growth, spending time with family and friends, cooking, organic and sustainable, nature and a huge fan of tea!
Music
Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Glen Velez, David Darling, Antonio Onorato, Hafez Nazeri, Hamza El Din, Alejandro Fernandez, Tim Wheater, Yoshio Kurahashi, El-Hadra, Jiang Xiao-Qing, Lorena McKennitt, Annie Lennox, Suzanne Vega, Enya, Luis Miguel, Andre Bocelli, Robin Thicke, Michael Buble, Frank Sinatra, George Winston, Vienna Teng, Vinx, Kuku, Joe Amoruso, Chris Botti, Motown . . . my tastes are wide and varied depending on my mood
Books
The Essential Rumi/Coleman Barks, Sonata for Rain/Rebecca Gonzalez, One Song/Michael Green, Works by Persian poets and poet saints, The Wisdom of Rilke, 19 Varieties of Gazelle/Naomi Shihab Nye, Rabidranath Tagore, The Essential Neruda/Mark Eisner, Pablo Neruda, Mahmoud Darwish/The Butterfly's Burden, Alberto Rios, Martin Espada, Natasha Saje, David Kirby, Kahlil Gibran, Amiri Baraka, Siddhartha, Windows of the Soul/Ken Gire, Book of My Nights/Li-Young Lee, The Soul Aflame, The Narrow Road to the Interior/Kimiko Hahn, Stories by Brian Andreas, Eat Pray Love, The Law of Attraction/Esther Hicks, Water and Salt-The Healing Power of Nature/Peter Ferreira
About me: "There can be no happiness, if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
- Freya Stark
"The Journeys Echo"
Once. . . I heard a bird,
an absorbed ecstatic bird
eloquently telling it's child:
"Fly high:
soar high:
a few bread crumbs
will suffice you,
but the sky
you need . . .
the whole sky."
-Sa'id 'Aql
"Quintrain"
I am a self starter interested in pursuing things I am passionate about . . . a deep thinker looking to expand myself from the inside out . . . love writing before the sun rises . . . grateful for my loving family, dear friends, my incredible publisher, fellow authors and spiritual teachers.
I have always loved the mystery of linking the inner world with the outer and look for ways to throw paint on the invisible. For me, writing is a listening process, an unplanned certainty where pen point intersects the page and conversation begins.
Performance and participation include editorial assistant to the 2007 Capitol Bookfest Anthology: Family Pictures, Martha's Vineyard-Bunches of Grapes Bookstore filmed with CEO Shana Yarborough and aired by Public Television, Visionary Art Museum: Rumi Festival featured guest Coleman Barks, Caribbean Literary Festival in Antigua 2006: co-sponsored by Writers Lair, The Science of Love: Intersection of Intellect and Desire/ Beltway Poetry Journal, Urbancode Magazine, Breathe Books: Meditative Writing Workshops, Baltimore City Community College: Youth Writing Workshop, University of Maryland/Baltimore: Publishing Workshop/Panel and Co-editor/facilitator for Writing Workshop/Book: "Into Our Clothes" for Goucher University.Presently a poetry coach for a program called Bookinaday for more info visit www.bookinaday.com
I believe the creative voice so vital to maintaining internal wholeness, begins inside the individual and should be encouraged to expand both out into our local communities and greater global family. Fostering this creative expression through mentoring youth is of great interest to me. Performance and collaboration with other performing artists is a passion and a focal point as well as support of causes and projects that ambassador good will.
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Zu Coffee: Poetry Reading 2007
Rumi read by Coleman Barks
Who I'd like to meet: Poets; those that have a passion for words, the words inside the words, sound and the diverse language contained within; performing artists of all kinds; people who are motivated, visionary, creative thinkers; those that live to punctuate their dreams; entrepreneurs; broad thinking individuals interested in personal expansion, growth and living life to the fullest!
"We have no right to judge the rich. For our part, what we desire is not a class struggle but a class encounter, in which the rich save the poor and the poor save the rich."
Happines, love and equality! Blessings from your mother teresa ! ♥♥♥
