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A few of my Favorite Books and Writers (not in any order)

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism by Gershom Scholem
Thomas Merton
St. John of the Cross
Teresa of Avila
The Dhammapada
The Cloud of Unknowing
The Witching Hour, Lasher and Violin by Anne Rice
Every Harry Potter book by J.K. Rowling
Ursula K LeGuin
Jack Vance
Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien Artist and Illustrator by Hammond and Scull
Nor Crystal Tears by Alan Dean Foster
The Inner Experience by Thomas Merton
New Orleans Mon Amour Twenty Years of Writing from the City by Andrei Codrescu
The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley
Awareness by Anthony de Mello
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Baudelaire
Sartre
Camus
The Poetry of Michelangelo
The Wisdom of Leonardo da Vinci
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Zen Mind Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
The Horn Island Logs of Walter Anderson
Lost in the Funhouse The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman by Bill Zehme
Entering the Sacred Mountain by David A. Cooper
Rumi
Gauguin's Intimate Journals
The Diary of Frida Kahlo
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Ram Dass
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Joseph Campbell
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Lyle Saxon
The Dalai Lama
Graeme Base's books for children

A few links that I enjoy - if I ever find the time I'll be adding more...

www.joshuabell.com - in a class by himself

www.boingboing.net - a directory of wonderful things

www.iscap.columbia.edu/ - string theory

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/ - Brian Greene - The Elegant Universe

www.ediblebrain.com/indice.htm

www.richardjohnston.com - love his blues, amazing one man band

www.kulichki.net/vv/eng - fell in love with his poetry and music

www.alicepaul.org - thank you Alice Paul

www.leoville.com - luv Leo Laporte!

www.walterandersonmuseum.org - my favorite artist and naturalist

www.sacredspace.ie/

www.iscid.org - The International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design

www.cindybaker.net - one of my best friends and an amazing designer

http://www.psfk.com/ - ideas trends and inspiration

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/ - Gambit Weekly Newspaper

http://www.thedeadpelican.com/ - Louisiana's News Underground

http://www.offbeat.com/ - Louisiana and New Orleans Music

http://www.wwoz.org/ - New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Radio

http://www.renaudpapillonparavel.com/ - Un musicien français que j'aime beaucoup!

http://www.thefarmcommunity.com/

http://appl003.lsu.edu/artsci/frenchweb.nsf/$Content/Cajun+French?OpenDocument - French Studies at LSU

http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/bdlp/louisiane.asp - The Louisiana Lexicographical Database

http://www.kexp.org/ - cuz when you live in rural Louisiana and like music the internet is a wonderful thing!

http://www.knitty.com - yeah, I like to knit and crochet...guess what y'all are getting for Christmas, lol.

and I sure hope they get OLGA.NET back online soon...
my guitar is gently weeping.