spilling over

nature, horses, books, the company of close friends, architecture, science, environment, society, arts, food, yoga... now reading consilience and www.edge.org, journals of anais nin, guns germs + steel a history of the world in ten and a half chapters, letters of anais nin + henry miller, devil in paradise, letters + journal of byron, my mac... diane kurys' c'est la vie, first film i ever loved, pulp fiction, the shawshank redemption, kieslowski's lot, most of woody allen's, peter greenaway's the pillow book, closer for coming so close, kitchen stories - made me laugh harder than i had in three years, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind for the ride, amelie for the light and colour, when harry met sally, the professional... ben webster for his throaty tunes, mellow st etienne for long road trips, jack kerouac reading to piano playing, early gainsbourg, kristina olsen live on her steel string guitar, ella doing anything, harry connick jr, norah jones's first album, the bandits, the rat pack, michael buble, the radcliff peaches, preisner, pizzicato five, funk when in the mood, joni mitchell, and the legendary female country singers, oh oh aussie gem becky cole, good old oldies, fred astaire dancing, tap dogs' boots, rain bucketing down... no politicians or bureaucrats if it can be helped. people who care about things, people who write, paint, eat, sleep, make music, talk, laugh, do somersaults, hunger, draw, live, ask questions, love and learn. people who don't see in b+w and if they do, don't try to tamper with others' technicolour screens. people who care about where something comes from and where it's going. people who don't care where they've come from nor where they're going.