My most passionate interest is promoting Personal Peace Through Conscious Eating of mostly raw and living foods ... and through focused intention. Join with me in creating "critical mass" that will inevitably bring about Global Peace.
Female
102 years old
In the Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina
United States
I enjoy sharing ideas with others. One of the ways I do this is by creating and publishing websites on subjects that interest me. My favorites, to date, are AshevilleBliss.com RawFoodNetwork.com, and TheLivingweb.net.
My current project is creating AshevilleBliss.com, which endeavors to reveal the many delightful facets of the Asheville experience, as well as celebrate the many 100's of artists and artisans who live in the Toe River Valley area of the mountains, attracted by the nearby Penland School of Crafts.
I enjoy manifesting beautiful and unique objects -- often for a pittance or even for free. Thrift stores and flea markets are a favorite 'nexus point of manifestation' for me, plus a great way to recycle. Recently I've collected a group of handmade pottery 'tea things' and lots of presents for family and friends. I almost never shop in regular stores. Far too predictable and boring.
For the same reason, I also enjoy buying (and selling my surplus "finds")on ebay and sometimes, a country auction. Right now, my passion is finding beautiful old Japanese bankoware teapots, some with flying cranes on them; Persian pottery; old bronze bells.
Dumpsters and trash heaps are also a great place to "manifest"! Don't laugh. I have discovered everything from my favorite piece of primitive pottery to an embroidered linen sheet, vintage Christmas bird and shell ornaments, antique cast iron monkey doorstop, and ever so many other treasures in dumpsters or trash heaps. It's AMAZING what useful and beautiful things people will thow out!
I love all things "Wabi Sabi". I love all kinds of patina... even rust... and especially old Chinese and Japanese bronze pots covered with layers of rich coppery green patina. I love old Mexican glass, old Japanese fishing floats with barnacles on them, coral-encrusted shipwreck pottery from Korea (they're on my wish list), and beach-combing for driftwood and beach glass after a storm. Old vegetable dyed tribal rugs from places like Afghanistan that are worn and frayed in spots.
I love whimsy and absurdity and the unexpected. Blue Man Group. Cirque du Soleil. Really great mystical juggling -- like that of Michael Moschen! Moving light sculptures. Kinetic sculpture driven by water or wind. Balancing toys and automata.
I love nature. Waterfalls splashing on mossy rocks. Amazing crystals: calco-pyrite... irridescent coppery crystals covering giant quartz's ... giant opalescent ammonites... huge geodes filled with celestite crystals... shooting stars at midnight .... deer racing at dawn.... trilliums and lady slippers in the spring ... trees dripping with Spanish moss and wild orchids ...
I love aromas. The smell of herbs and spices. Certain blends of nutmeg, cloves, cardomon, allspice, ginger, and cinnamon... lightly roasted to bring out the scent and ground together in a surabachi... kind of a super 'chai' spice ... mmmmm. The heady smell of certain parts of Coconut Grove just before dawn. The scent of fresh pineapple... and strawberries... and lemons and limes. The scent of applewood and other fruit woods burning in my Vermont Castings stove. Freshly ground coffee brewing (but not necessarily to drink!) The delicate aroma of green jasmine tea and the smell of jasmine blossoms at dawn. The ineffably delicate fragrance of God's breath.
I love: raw living food (aspiring to be vegan, but not quite there yet!), foraging for wild edible plants (I have the books and access to the plants, but want to learn "hands on"), permaculture, wild baby greens, avocados (at least one or two a day!),spiritual mind treatment, wild and free dancing, knowing the truth, choosing perfect divine health for self and others, power of thought, quantum physics, thoughts and feelings create reality, healing power of love, perfect atunement to divine spirit and will, complete spiritual soul connection, eternal love.
Music
I love all kinds of music (and silence too)! I also enjoy listening to my LP's. Over the past couple of years I have collected over 1,000 LPs at thrift stores for $.50 or $1! This has allowed me to endulge myself in exploring a LOT of music in almost every genre: jazz, classical, folk, spoken word, classic rock, soul, blues, world, etc. It's been fun going back and re-visiting everything by Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez,... listening to the Theme from Black Orpheus, Kingston Trio's "They Called the Wind Maria", "Ghostriders in the Sky", Harry Belafonte's "Cucuracucura" (almost anything by HB!)... and discovering totally new-to-me treasures...like early Kate Bush etc. I'm partial to the Bossa Nova sounds of Antonio Carlos Jobim as interpreted by Ella, Stan Getz, Frank Sinatra, etc. I've compiled extensive collections of Segovia and Carlos Montoya LPs -- I love flamenco and classical guitar. I also love piano jazz... everything from Red Camp to Oscar Peterson to Ahmad Jamal to Errol Gardner. I love French music: Charles Aznavour, Edith Piaf, Jacqueline Francois. Also spoken word: Dylan Thomas's "A Child's Christmas in Wales, etc".<> On CD I enjoy: Eldar, Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer, YoYo Ma's "Obrigado Brazil", YoYo Ma & Bobby McFerrin, "State of Grace 1&2", Kitaro & Jon Anderson: "Dream", The Cowboy Junkies, Sarah McLaughlin, "Vision II: Spirit of Rumi", Christina Aguilara's "Hurt", Chris Isaak's "Heart Shaped Room", Nick Drake, Sting's "Mad About You", anything by Carlos Nakai, anything by Ali Farka Toure, plus many, many others.
Movies
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Spirited Away; Qatsi Trilogy; Adaptation; Beetlejuice; Once Upon a Time in Mexico (and other films by Robert Rodriguez); Mirror Mask; anything from Cirque du Soleil; Triplette's de Belleville; David Lynch's Dune; Lord of the Rings Trilogy; Star Wars Trilogy; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Little Miss Sunshine; An Inconvenient Truth; Young Frankenstein; Blazing Saddles; What the Bleep Do I Know, etc.
Television
I enjoy live news, alternating between CNN and Fox even though I can't stand some of the commentators! Occasionally, some of the HGTV shows on interior design and gardening, especially those featuring unique or far out houses; an occasional movie; some History Channel, Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, Food Network. American Idol. Concerts on Public TV. I generally don't watch network TV shows.
Books
Soul receives from soul that knowledge,
therefore not by book nor from tongue.
If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.
-- Jalalud'din Rumi
Books on: raw and living food diet; art and scupture (China, Dale Chihuly, Andy Goldsworthy, Alexander Calder, modern ceramics and glass, etc.); interior design (Artist's Homes in Tuscany is my latest fav! Also feng shui, natural decor, creating a sanctuary, building a pond, growing wildflowers, etc.); spirituality (Ask and It Is Given; Behaving As If The God In All Things Mattered; Conversations with God; Autobiograpy of a Yogi, Course in Miracles, etc.; books on miracles, physical immortality, enlightened beings; just about anything by Ernest Holmes, Wayne Dwyer, Marianne Williamson, Joel Goldsmith, Eckhardt Tolle, Dr. Robert O. Young (Ph Miracle Diet, etc.); poems of Rumi, Dylan Thomas, Robert Service); arts and crafts (papermaking, low fire ceramics, basketry, jewelry making, Japanese wood-fired pottery, etc.)science (quantum theory, Nikola Tesla, alternative theories to relativity, etc.)
Heroes
Everyone who is on the quest to become their own authentic selves... and dares to share it with the world via whatever media suits them. Everyone who inspires me... and gives me permission... to become the highest and most authentic me that I was born to be. Everyone who has ever had the guts to "fly" -- to fearlessly take off on a journey with only the clothes on their back and trust that all of their needs will be provided for -- and proceed to demonstrate that thus is so.
My name is Jacqueline Corbett. I am a lover of Life, live food, and all manifestations of Joy, Bliss, Beauty and Peace. I love serendipity and synchronous phenomenon.
I enjoy my moments of lucidity and atunement to the whisperings of the Universe -- often heard through the spoken, written, sung, painted or played words, poems, songs, tunes, drawings, the quiet urgings of friends and even the seemingly mad ranting of strangers.
I love beautiful man-made objects: unique art-to-wear and ethnic clothing; contemporary handcrafted pottery, raku, handmade paper, hand-blown glass; ancient artifacts covered with delicious patinas and crazed coppery glazes; houses that are crafted to be sanctuaries and temples for the soul -- for these are all expressions of the Divine Universe which breathes us all. I appreciate and am grateful for having an almost uncanny ability to manifest all sorts of amazing and beautiful things, often for a pittance ... or even free.
Together with many others, including my two puttytats, I am consciously co-creating a Peaceful, Joyous, Beautiful, Healthy, Loving Universe.
I affirm that Peace, Love, Joy, Health, Beauty, and everlasting Life are our natural birthright, our natural state of being... and I invite all who read and resonate with these words to join me as together we assemble a 'critical mass' of individuals who are consciously and fervently affirming love and peace with their heart and soul. Shalom!
Who I'd like to meet: I enjoy meeting and networking with fellow travelers on this amazing magical mystery tour we call life -- sympatico human beings who are conscious co-creators of a Joyous, Peaceful, Beautiful, Healthy, Loving Universe.
I enjoy people who are full of Gratitude for everything in their life ... and full of Forgiveness for their own foibles and the foibles of others.
I made my first video slideshow and wanted to share it with you. The musician (Elizabeth Ann Middleton) is one I found through MySpace, and she generously let me use her music to set to my images. Visit her MySpace page here - http://www.myspace.com/pianorama - she's fantastic! :-)
thank you for being friends with Dripping Bliss. New things to check out coming soon. until then visit the blog @ www.orgasmicbreakthrough.blogspot.com
happy birthday and on this day..we are closer and closer to being awake..eat your cake and taste the wine..and say to yourself it is divine..the beautiful way we get home..and let today be another happy steppingstone.
Spring is here and so are the butterflies! This week I have a gallery of a particular group of butterflies called Brushfoots. Brushfoots are the most commonly known and encountered of the large colorful butterflies (excluding the swallowtails) found in Florida and the Americas. These include the monarchs, fritillaries, buckeyes, and the viceroy below (who has nearly identical markings as the toxic monarch butterfly) to keep it from being eaten by birds.... cool trick, huh? :-)
Click the butterfly below to see my gallery - and please let me know what you think!
Hello my friend how are you doing? well i am sorry for not write you you for very long time.... hope you dont mind, the truth is that i got some of my own problem and thats why i am not on the mood to talk to any one... anyway i am ok now... well i just wanna say hello to you and wish you a good day... talk to you soon. regards Tashi PS if you have facebook, you can add me there with this email address tashi.d.tsering@gmail.com i use facebook for personal stuff no political....
Hello from your Mamas! After putting hundreds of miles on the ole trusty Subaru with a busy summer and early fall of festivals and southeastern listening rooms, racking up hundreds of sound checks, hitting countless truck stops, scenic overlooks and seedy motels and crashing on many kind people’s couches, we are delighted to share with you that we Mamas will be returning to some of our favorite local venues this coming weekend. For our Charlotte fans, we hope to see your faces at the Evening Muse this Friday evening the 14th, and the following evening, Saturday the 15th, we hope to see all of our beloved hometown fans (you!) at the Grey Eagle in Asheville where our buddies Town Mountain will warm up the stage for us. We can’t wait to step back onto our favorite home stage and share some of our new songs and stories from the road with you. And as if that were not enough, you can also look forward to our hearing our fiddle player Anna Bauman-Smith make her songwriting and singing debut with us on Saturday evening. Wahoo!
Just giving you a heads up that January looks like it is going to be a very busy month…what with recording our new album and all…That’s right, you heard us! We will be going into the studio in January to record our long-awaited second album. Look for it later in ’09 and you can be sure that we will invite you to celebrate its release with us. Other things to look forward to in January are our New Years Eve performance at the White Horse in Black Mountain, as well as our show at Jack of the Wood on Friday January 9th, which also happens to be Miss Jane’s birthday. She especially requests your presence at this show and will accept gifts in the currency of whiskey ;)
