Motorcycles. Autocrossing with Redwood Sports Car Club. Music: playing guitar, drumming, singing. Road trips anywhere. Letterpress printing. Gardening, yoga, driving, relaxing, cooking, dancing, travel, reading. I'd like to be in the Blue Man Group someday, or to sing with a chorus that is recording music for a major motion picture.
Music
10,000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant solo, Dave Matthews, Blue Man Group, Bare Naked Ladies, Weird Al Yankovic, Heart, Kitka (exquisite vocal harmonies), Carlos Nakai (native american flute), YoYo Ma, Andrea Bocelli, Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum (again, great harmonies), Nickel Creek, Greg Brown, REM, early U2, Psychedelic Furs, The Church, The Chameleons, Love and Rockets, Cowboy Junkies, Concrete Blonde, Pearl Jam, Queensryche, Geoff Tate (amazing vocals!), Jack Johnson, Jewel, Nickleback, Snow Patrol, Josh Groban, Godsmack, Collective Soul, Live
Movies
My new hands-down favorites are Long Way Round and Long Way Down, the motorcycle adventures of Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman: fantastic! Matrix trilogy, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Advent Children (Final Fantasy VII), Appleseed (anime), Initial D series, Thomas Crown Affair (remake), Shakespeare in Love, The Italian Job (remake), Croupier, Kinky Boots, Wallace & Gromit "The Curse of the Wererabbit", Finding Nemo, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Over the Hedge (great commentary on suburbia), West Side Story (old but timeless)
Television
I don't watch tv but have seen some of Married with Children and Mind of Mencia on dvd and YouTube. Other: Top Gear, The Simpsons, Animal Planet, any National Geographic show.
Books
The Solace of Leaving Early, by Haven Kimmel. The Lost Painting, by Jonathan Harr. Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts. An incredible read. Angle of Repose (anything by Stegner, really). Anything by Shakespeare. The Four Agreements, The Tao te Ching, The Time Traveler's Wife, anything by Ivan Doig, Sherman Alexie, David James Duncan, William Kittredge, Gretel Ehrlich, Louise Erdrich…
Heroes
My grandmothers Brik and Greta, my mom and stepdad, my daughter, my beloved Tony, my brother James, Thich Nhat Hanh, His Holiness the Dalai Lama; anyone who is working toward being more compassionate and understanding in their life
About me:
I just have to say that I feel so blessed in my life. Sometimes I complain about what I don't have, but when I think about what I do have, I realize my life is incredibly rich. I have a partner who loves me wholly and unconditionally, I have a smart, funny, adorable child, I have a career that suits me, and I live in a pretty spectacular place.
I am pretty addicted to riding my Ninja EX500; sometimes I have to sneak a ride down the road, just to get the rush that comes from riding a motorcycle. The riding also helps calm me down, since it requires tremendous focus—you cannot be unmindful on a bike!
I'm a member of Redwood Sports Car Club. Tony will be swapping everything from my crashed sports car (not my fault!) into a donor car body this winter.
I enjoy meeting people in the motorcycling community, and I am glad to see and meet so many women who love riding as much as I do.
I love doing yoga, being in my garden, walking on the beach. I am always up for meeting new people, and I especially appreciate people who are walking a path of mindfulness, who are living in the present, those who work with their own failings in order to be better human beings, and those who practice compassion and understanding for others.
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Who I'd like to meet: Anyone living life from their heart, working with all that they are in order to become the best they can be. Anyone truly honest and trustworthy (is this possible?). Anyone interested in sports cars and autocross. Women who ride motorcycles. Women who ride, rock! :-)
Yep, I've been waiting for this day since I first sold it and regretted it instantly. I took the photos as soon as the guy left this evening and emailed them to my bro up in your neck of the woods. I love that your jacket matches your bike. Mine does too, but it's a fabric Alpine Star.
Damn it, i'm usually better at being on time with these kind of things... Happy belated Birthday. I hope you got all you wanted and more. Happy thoughts from Seattle.
