I love psychedelic, funk, folk, hippie music, old school rock, rock-a-billy, hillbilly, country, American Eastern Mountain Music, Bluegrass, Gospel, Big Band Music, Blues--Chicago and Delta, Punk, opera, art songs, classical, jazz--esp. New Orleans variety, chant--once saved my life!--, Reggae, jam-band-style, alternative, Native American--drumming, singing, and flutes--, Turkish, Middle Eastern, and TRUE Gothic music from the medieval period. Who can i say influenced me the most? OK, I can't narrow it down too well: Cher, Elvis, Rita Coolidge, Janis Joplin, Crissy Hinde, Turley Richards, Bill Miller, Pearl Baily, Sinead O'Conner, Koko Taylor, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Nicks, Etta James, Carly Simon, James Brown, Dolly Parton, Wanda Jackson and Pura Fe!
Now, groups. . . Led Zeppelin, The Carter Family, Bob Marley and the Wailers and family, Public radio Station 91.9 WFPK, Louisville, KY. . . Now, dancers--Artemis; Laylia; Ruric Amari; Suhaila Salimpour; a dance professor i had at Butler University, i don't remember her name; and Loie Fuller. Now, actors . . .just kidding, but no--Meryl Streep, Katherine Hepburn, and I met Woody Harelson once! I went to the same college as he did. Woody came back to do a show and I interupted his rehearsal!
Movies
Television
Today Show.
Books
Life long favs, Bible(and other sacred texts), Betty Crocker cookbook (life changing!) Also, Taking Root to Fly by Irene Dowd, The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, Exploring Meditation by Dr. Susan J. Schumsky, Grandmother's Secrets by Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi, and (naturally) Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. I like encyclopedias, reference books, dictionaries, a good thesaurus, periodicals like Yoga Journal, and Countryside and Livestock Journal. Books, real books, i love, too, and i have hundreds that my husband will have to pry from my cold, dead fingers, even if i never will read them. But I always hope. I have trouble reading lots because i fall asleep. The good news about that is if i got through the entire book, it's guaranteed to be a good read.
Heroes
Or people i think of as being heroic--Black Elk, Crazy Horse, Jesus of Nazareth, Isis, Sophia, Buddhah, Kalil Gibran, Buffy St. Marie, Mother Theresa, Princess Diana, Ghandi, Dahli Lama, that girl that started the Green Party over in Germany, George Clinton, Jerry Garcia, People who ran the Underground Railroad, People who hid Jews and other "enemies" of the Nazi Party. My Grandfathers. My Grandmothers. Wanda Jackson (the first woman to ever play and sing rock'n'roll). Tommy Chong. by punk girl
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Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpose of your life.
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
“It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
--Jean-Paul Sartre
“It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.”
--Blaise Pascal
Thank you! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. We stayed in Naples and drove up to get Riah in Tampa. We had a good and busy weekend!!! Put up the Christmas tree, too. I will have to add pics! Love, Shari
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