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Writers: Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, Dostoevsky, James Joyce, Anthony Trollope, , Nabokov, Dorothy Parker, Edith Wharton, James Baldwin, Erasmus
Music: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Son House, Nina Simone, Mildred Bailey, Dan Auerbach, Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Memphis Minnie, Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James
Songs: Witchita Lineman, Like a Rolling Stone, Trouble in Mind (sister rosetta), Man in the Moon, Tangled up in Blue, Standing in the doorway (dylan), Wild Horses, Up on the Roof, I need a little sugar in my bowl (bessie smith), Sweetheart like you (dylan), Thunder on the Mountain
Directors: Kurosawa, Fellini, Tarkovsky, Ozu
Poets: Kay Ryan, Wistawa Szymborska, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Wordsworth, Keats
Films: Andrei Rublev, The Marriage Circle, Ran, 8 1/2, Seventh Seal, Floating Weeds, Late Spring, Spirit of the Beehive
Fun: birdwatching, reading, playing
Artists: Balthus, Ingres, Giotto, Vermeer, Caravaggio, Lucien Freud, Kiki Smith, Gwen John, Andy Goldsworthy, Anselm Kiefer, Courbet, Peter Bruegal, Agnes Martin, Inness, Antonio Lopez Garcia
Actors: Kay Francis, Louise Brooks
Places: the beach at Woods Hole, Mt. LeConte in Smoky Mountain National Park
Contemporary Essayists: Alain De Botton, Adam Thirlwell
Websites: New York Times, Huffington, Wonkette, Writer's Almanac, New Yorker, NPR (does a GREAT job with music, esp.), National Geographic, Arts and Letters Daily, Very Short List, Kasper Hauser comedy
Plants: ghost pipe, zinnias,
Birds: wrens, woodcocks, egrets
Photographers: Diane Arbus, Sally Mann, Gregory Crewdson
Food: fresh bread with real butter, homemade soup
Voltaire and Stephen Colbert.
Nicholas Kristof, David Brooks, Bob Schieffer, Paul Krugman
New hero: Rosanne Barr for her work with families being thrown out of homes.
"The mind is an enchanted thing/ like the glaze of a katydid-wing/ subdivided by sun/ till the nettings are legion. -Marianne Moore
