Paul Simon, Amy Winehouse, Van Morrison, Sade, Janes Addiction, Led Zeplin, Billy Holiday, Ry Cooder, Hank Williams, Sons of the Pioneers, Bare Naked Ladies, World Music, Mickey Hart, Frank Sinatra,
Movies
Harold and Maude, Milo and Otis, The Women, The Tao of Steve, Dune, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Fifth Element, The Holiday, The Hunger, Dirty Dancing, The Witches of Eastwick, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, What the Bleep Do We Know?, Virgin Suicides
Television
Battle Star Galactica (the new one), Weeds, Desperate Housewives (don't hold it against me), The Riches, Dirt, I love Lucy, Love American Style, Gray's Anatomy
Books
To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Kyballion, The Science of getting Rich, The Phantom Tollbooth, Shibumi, The Emerald City of Oz, anything by Dan Brown, Think and Grow Rich, anything by Anne Rice, the Peaceful Warrior series, anything by Steven Brust, Laurel K. Hamilton Anita Blake Series, The Rich Dad Poor Dad series,
Heroes
Quan Yin (above),
Mantak Chia, Eartha Kitt, Norma Shearer, Wallace Wattles, Dolly Parton, Robert Kyosaki, T Harv Ecker, Napoleon Hill, Sophia Loren, Ann Margaret
About me:
I am a certified instructor with Universal Healing Tao and a huge fan of the manifestation aspect of Quantum Physics. I travel to Thailand annually to visit my teacher, Taoist Master Mantak Chia and all of my friends at Tao Garden.
(www.TaoLady.com)
I am also the director of www.MidwestUniversalTao.com and www.ChiFamily.com Visit Midwest Universal Tao Today!
I discovered writing as a teenager. I'd like to think my skills have improved since then.
I am lucky in that I have a number of people I consider "best friends". My friend and writing partner, R. Mordant Mahon is one of the jewels of my life. We travel together, study the Tao, write, encourage each other to work out, and are unshakeable support when needed. I am blessed to know him.
I can't say Mordant and I always agree on issues of psychology, etiquette, and definitely grammar or punctuation. If he could just see the girl is always right, well, I guess he'd be perfect.
Rachel Tribble is another jewel. Her artwork is stunning; just ask Disney. She has provided Mordant and I with a beautiful logo. Some day we should pay her:)
I sincerely hope you all enjoy reading our books.
The Tao of Intimacy was a lot of fun to write. ..
The Tao of Commitment is next.
Please check out www.QuantumDatingClub.com for free excerpts and Myspace.com/QuantumDatingClub to become our friend. Also, check out TaoLady.com and ChiFamily.com to learn about natural health or request a lecture or class at your University or school.
And by the way, if any of you are interested in turning one of our books in to a screen play, you could probably twist my arm...
Why should a woman learn Taoist sexual energy practice? Find out here.
Who I'd like to meet: People interested in Taoism, Taoist Quantum Physics, anyone interested in having Mordant and I speak or teach, literary agents, screen writers, published authors, anyone interested in taking responsibility for their romantic life, entertainers, and if Jude Law absolutely has to have me, well, okay.
Greetings of the Season My Friend Even when things feel chaotic and time speeds by too fast I always seem to be magically transported back to childhood when I see the lights all over town..I hope you get to take some time to enjoy them too Thank you for your ongoing friendship...you too bring light into my sometimes overwhelming world!! xoxxo ~S. ;)
"I'm thankful for..loved ones, independent thought, memories, lessons learned, lessons to be learned, memories yet to be had, good conversation, laughter, tears, birth, death, the moon, the sun.. chaos...and quiet...in short.. i'm thankful for life... and the fact that my friends and family can make of it what they will."
The discovery of x-rays in 1895 forever changed our understanding of the physical world.. and set off a dangerous craze..that had to end with the death of Clarence Dally, Thomas Edison's assistant before people understood the danger..
there was everything from public demonstrations in department stores, to X-Ray slot machines in Chicago and Kansas..the public and "inventors" would photograph almost anything...
from fully clothed parts of the body...to chameleons...there were even poems written...
"The Roentgen Rays" ...the town's ablaze with the new phase of X-Rays ways... ..I'm full of daze, shock and amaze.. ...Those naughty naughty Roentgen Rays..." (from the Electrical Review c.19th century)
On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his
fellow-traveller
in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and
muffled in a cloak,
Ichabod was horror-struck on perceiving that he was
headless!
but his horror was still more increased on observing
that the head,
which should have rested on his shoulders,
was carried
before him on the pommel of his saddle! ~The Legend of Sleepy Hollow~
by Washington Irving (1783-1859)
"Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart — one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a stupid action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement,
to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?" from The Black Cat (1843) ~Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
My current obsession...19th century photography masters..
These photos are by the french master Eugene Atget (1857-1927)
this is from his storefront series.... "Tailor Dummies" c. 1910 "Bouldevard de Strasbourg" c.1912 "Au Tambour, 63 quai de la Tournelle" c.1908
(the dim reflection is that of the photographer)
Atget worked with a large-format bellows camera,
exposing and developing the images on glass plate. Widely regarded as an anti-artist
Weston Naef (senior curator of photographs J. Paul Getty Museum)
states, "..when Alfred Stieglitz, the best-known photographer in the United
States,
was at a great turning point in his life and was about to
abandon working in a documentary style.
So Atget began his career
working against the stream of photography as art.."
I hope you enjoy his work as I have and look into it more...
xoxxo
~S. ;)
Enso-"The Circle of Enlightenment" The Way of the Brush~~inspired by the teachings of Yamaoka Tesshu (1836-1888) "a practice to uncover one's original self through the brush."
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