• solo on guitar at the spring strawberry leopard lounge
• take a tabla class with swapanji
• join kalanjali, reconnect with bharatanatyam
• make new friends and keep the old
• read dharma bums, read more than I did in 2024
• start carnatic or hindustani vocal
• hike in the mountains every weekend
• work on a farm
• start a new language
• learn to read devanagari
• find a local deadhead community
• spend as much time with the redwoods as with people
• always be the first to start dancing
• be thankful even when I'm sick
• discover new music genres I love
• grow my kindness and compassion, enjoy the passing of time

• Aishwarya, Aradhana, Ashraqat, Ayelet, Ayşe / Alemayehu
• Bhakti
• Chava, Chavatzelet / Chayim
• Duniyā
• Eyerusalem
• Hayati / Hafiz, Hohepa
• Ibtihaj
• Mayura, Mirabai
• Nirantara
• Salamatu, Samadhi, Shanthi, Shiraz, Soundarya, Sunshine / Shamsuddin, Soumaïla, Sundara

Chava Shanthi --> a life of peace

Ayşe Bhakti --> a life of love

Duniya Shiraz --> the secret song of the earth

• Psych-Out (1968)
• Yellow Submarine (1968)
• Easy Rider (1969)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• Rocky (1976)
• Hair (1979)
• Rock N Roll High School (1979)
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
• Of Mice and Men (1992)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Waiting for Guffman (1996)
• Wildflowers (1999)
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)
• Devdas (2002)
• A Mighty Wind (2003)
• School of Rock (2003)
• Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
• The Secret of Kells (2009)
• Song of the Sea (2014)