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"The piano keys are black and white, but they sound like a million colours in your mind." ~ Katie Melua , Spider's Web
Favorite Internet Radio Station ~
www.radioparadise.com
Old favorites, current fancies, etc. Check them out on itunes, Pandora, etc.
Beggin' ~ MadCon (great for your workout/dance mix!)
Alligator Pie ~ Dave Matthews
Makambo ~ Geoffrey Oryema (beautiful music!)
Funny The Way It Is ~ Dave Matthews
Sex On Fire ~ Kings of Leon
We Are The People ~ Empire of the Sun
Dusty Road ~ Oi Va Voi (this song gets stuck in my head!)
Breathe Me ~ Sia
Soul Cake ~ Sting
For Your Entertainment ~ Adam Lambert
Uprising ~ Muse
Smooth Criminal ~ Michael Jackson
Give It Up To Me ~ Shakira
Meet Me Halfway ~ The Black Eyed Peas
Love Comes Tumbling ~ U2
Father and Daughter ~ Paul Simon
Best of ~ The Talking Heads
Chance ~ Big Country
House of Valparaiso ~ Calexico
Earth Song ~ Michael Jackson
Best of ~ Crowded House
White Trash Beautiful ~ Everlast
The Maker ~ Dave Matthews Band
Glory Box ~ Portishead
Down Under (acoustic version) ~ Colin Hay
Annie ~ Mat Kearney
Taylor ~ Jack Johnson
Beautiful World ~ Colin Hay
The Garden ~ Mirah
Poker Face ~ Lady Gaga
Lonely Road ~ Everlast
~ Johannes Linstead
Want some great soundtrack music? Check these out:
Armageddon ~ the score
Fried Green Tomatoes ~ the score
The Guardian ~ the score
Babel ~ Gustavo Santaolalla's music
Books, books, and more books........!
Self-Help/Inspiration
Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting ~ Lynn Grabhorn
Conversations with God Series and Friendship with God ~ Neale Donald Walsch
A New Earth and The Power of Now ~ Eckhart Tolle
My Best Self (Enneagram) ~ Kathleen Hurley & Theodore Dobson
What's My Type (Enneagram) ~ Kathleen Hurley & Theodore Dobson
The Four Agreements ~ Don Miguel Ruiz
You Can Heal Your Life and I Can Do It ~ Louise Hay
Scattered ~ Dr. Gabor Mate (great book about ADD/ADHD_
Creative Visualizations ~ Shakti Gawain
Something More (and other books) ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Love, Medicine, & Miracles ~ Dr. Bernie Siegel
Chemistry of Joy ~ Dr. Henry Emmons (wonderful book about depression and healing approaches)
Until Today ~ Iyanla Vanzant
My Grandfather's Blessings ~ Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen
Swimming Lessons ~ Penelope Niven & Jim Nocito ( great for non-swimmers too!)
Creativity
Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper (and lots of other books) ~ SARK (always colorful, bright, and inspirational)
Spiritual Doodles, Mental Leapfrogs ~ Katherine Revoir
Taking Flight: Inspiration and Techniques to Give Your Creative Spirit Wings~ Kelly Rae Roberts (cool combination of how-to projects and creativity self-help)
Wild Mind (and several other books) ~ Natalie Goldberg
The Artist's Way ~ Julia Cameron
Memoirs/Personal Story
Coyote Woman: A Continuing Journal of My Life As An Artist ~ Tina Le Marque
Pack of Two ~ Caroline Knapp (a must for dog lovers)
The Glass Castle ~ Jeanette Walls (incredible story of survival)
Grayson ~ Lynne Cox (beautiful story (true) about a whale)
A Long Way Gone: Memories of a Boy Soldier ~ Ishmael Beah (another incredible story of survival)
Mutant Message Down Under ~ Marlo Morgan (classified technically as fiction)
The Coyote Daily ~ Shreve Stockton
A Year By The Sea (and other books) ~ Joan Anderson
A Beautiful Mind ~ Sylvia Nasar (my favorite testament to the power of love)
Fiction (too many to note, but here are a few....)
Dog On It ~ Spencer Quinn (What a fun read. Completely in the voice of Chet, the very cool dog/investigator)
Ahab's Wife ~ Sena Jeter Naslund (beautiful story)
The Highest Tide~ Jim Lynch (if you love the ocean..... RUN and get this book!)
Stealing Love ~ Mary Fischer
Dogs of Babel ~ Carolyn Parkhurst
Whale Rider ~ Witi Ihimaera ( another favorite)
Little Bee ~ Chris Cleave
Travel Writing ~ Peter Ferry
The Soloist ~ Steve Lopez
The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood ~ Sy Montgomery
On The Lighter Side
Any Peanuts book! Try - Being a Dog Is a Full Time Job ~ by none other than ~ Charles M. Schulz
For Every Dog An Angel (Cat Version too) ~ (So Sweet, but You WILL Cry)
Hep Me Mr. Mutt: Expert Answers for Dogs with People Problems ~ Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel (So clever and funny and the art work is fabulous!)
RESOURCES/SITES
(Note: please see my blog for many other sites of colleagues and kindred creative souls!)
Artella Words & Art
Bone Sigh Arts
SARK
Susun Weed
Dr. Bernie Siegel
Ocean Conservancy
International Fund For Animal Welfare
U.S. Census
International Coach Academy
International Coach Federation
Dr. Gabor Mate
Radioparadise.com
Pandora.com
Ravi Singh & Ana Brett Yoga
Petfinder.com
More to Come......
QUOTES To InSpire Us, Make Us LauGh,
or Just MaKe Us ThInk A LiTTle
Perhaps true love can best be recognized by the fact that it thrives under circumstances which would blast anything else into small pieces. ~ E. Havemann
Lots of people talk to animals.......Not very many listen though..... That's the problem. ~ Benjamin Huff, The Tao of Pooh
Barn's burnt down........... now I can see the moon. ~ Masahide
The future is sending back good wishes, and waiting with open arms. ~ Kobi Yamada
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
Don't fight the waves. Dive under, bob up, or catch the curl and ride the wave. The ocean is stronger than you; you might as well be a matchstick in comparison, but if you yield to the waves, they carry you. Their power becomes you. ~ Elizabeth Cunningham
Until one has loved an animal, part of one's soul remains unawakened. ~ Anatole France
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from te safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Disover. ~ Unknown
Acceptance. If you take the chains, bolts, and locks from the door of your heart and let the monster in, it will just sit there and be. And at any given moment you can get up and leave. ~ Unknown
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring ~ it was Peace. ~ Milan Kundera
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~ James Dent
Little by little................. one walks far. ~ Peruvian Proverb
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ~ Helen Keller
All life.......represents a risk, and the more lovingly we live our lives the more risks we take. ~ M. Scott Peck
The only limits are as always, those of vision. ~ James Broughton
Every small positive change we can make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future. ~ Alice Walker
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiemnt. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ~ Roger Caras
We turn not older with years, but newer every day. ~ Emily Dickinson
The very act of seeking sets something in motion to meet us; something in the universe or in the unconscious responds as if to an invitation. ~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
We become what we contemplate. ~ Plato
I know nothing with any certainty. But the sight of stars makes me dream. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Ever notice that in the long run, those who don't eventually go 'within,' often go 'without'? ~ Mike Dooley
The most powerful agent of change is a change of heart. ~ B. J. Marshall
Our vulnerability and flaws ~ and not our successes and strengths ~ ultimately make us lovable and human. People can be admired or resented, but never loved for their successes and achievements. ~ Eric Maisel
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. ~ Jewish Proverb
Life is an endless process of self-discovery. ~ John Gardner
Our task must be to free ourselves.......... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ~ Albert Einstein
Joy is the realization that all we want or need in life has been etched into our souls. ~ Iyanla Vanzant
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. ~ Jim Goodwin and Sidney J. Harris
True art is often too broad to fit through narrow minds. ~ Fred Babb
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. ~ Joseph Campbell
How we spend our day is, of course, how we spend our lives. ~ Annie Dillard
What you focus on expands. ~ Buddha
You will find only what you bring in. ~ Yoda
What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lucy: Why do they say you'll never walk alone?
Snoopy: If you're lucky, your dog will be with you.
~ Peanuts strip, Charles M. Schulz
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