• What is your current state of mind? Anxious, always
• What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Empathy
• What do you consider the most underrated virtue? Humility
• On what occasion do you lie? When the truth would serve no purpose
• What do you most dislike about your appearance? My posture
• What is your main fault? I usually avoid instead of confronting
• Your favorite painter? Alice Neel, Fernando Amorsolo
• Your favorite musician? Joni Mitchell
• What is the quality you most like in a man? Curious
• What is the quality you most like in a woman? Sensual
• Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Fudge cakes
• What or who is the greatest love of your life? My husband
• When and where were you happiest? Comfortably in bed with my husband, sharing childhood stories, any time of day

• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• The Diary of Frida Kahlo
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Wise Children by Angela Carter
• Little Birds by Anaïs Nin
• Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
• Hiroshima Mon Amour by Marguerite Duras
• The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
• The Awful Rowing Toward God by Anne Sexton
• Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
• Wise Child by Monica Furlong
• Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
• 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
• The Moon is Always Female: Poems by Marge Piercy

May I Feel, Said He by E.E. Cummings

• Must Be Catchin' by Julie London (x)
• Melody by Serge Gainsbourg (x)
• Brindo by Devendra Banhart (x)
• Caramel by Suzanne Vega (x)
• Lullaby by The Cure (x)
• Siboney by Connie Francis (x)
• Audrey's Dance by Angelo Badalamenti (x)
• Let It Die by Feist (x)
• Je t'aime... moi non plus by Serge Gainsbourg (feat. Brigitte Bardot) (x)
• Koop Island Blues (French version) by Ane Brun (x)
• Melodia Sentimental by Dusko Goykovich (x)

An Ode to an Enchanted Light by Pablo Neruda

• Dan in Real Life by Sondre Lerche (x)
• Through the Backyards of Our Neighbors by Au Revoir Simone (x)
• Romance Anónimo by Narciso Yepes (x)

• Women and Nature by Susan Griffin
• Mother Earth's Plantasia by Mort Garson, 1976
• The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch
• Windflower by Herb Ellis & Remo Palmier, 1978
• Green-House's Six Songs for Invisible Gardens album
• a mango curry chickpea recipe
• Natura Morta album (especially the piece En plein air) by Sven Wunder, "a bridge between nature and the human ability to judge and observe"
• The Faithful Gardener by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• Oolong by Omni Gardens
• A Story of Forest and Water by Takahashi Kokubo
• Parallelograms by Linda Perhacs
• Earth Power by Scott Cunningham
• "L'heure bleue, from 4 Aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle by Éric Rohmer "we need nature, not the other way around"
• Gymnopédie No.1 by Erik Satie
• Pulling Weeds by Blue is My Name

the true meaning of sustainability is in danger of being diluted. essentially, still the most effective way is to reuse, mend, buy secondhand or not consume at all. these are just some alternative recommendations if anyone wants to invest on good quality products and services that are also transparent with their eco practices, carbon footprint and fair trade

• references on sustainability/ climate justice
  • the slow factory
  • climate one, an in-depth commentary on the environment and climate change
  • our changing climate is a commentary youtube channel investigating humanity's relationship to the natural world
  • odeandiefreude is a women-run curation of sustainable and ethical products/ art made by women artists which also explores sustainable and...

• Come Wander with Me by Bonnie Beecher (x)
• There is a Vine by Connie Converse (x)
• Tonight by Sibylle Baier (x)
• Below the Waves by Heidi Berry (x)
• What Color is Love? by Terry Callier (x)
• Mother Big River by Jessica Pratt (x)
• Bells Ring by Mazzy Star (x)

• The Goddess of Spring by Wilfred Jackson, 1934 (x)
• Supervenus by Frédéric Doazan, 2013 (x)
• To Die By Your Side by Spike Jonze & Simon Cahn, 2011 (x)
• Talking Heads by Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1980 (x)
• Le clitoris by Lori Malépart-Traversy, 2016 (x)
• Gap Toothed Women by Les Blank, 1987 (x)
• Destino by Salvador Dali, 1945 (x)
• Poor Cherries by Jimmy Marble, 2018 (x)
• Repeat by Michaela Pavlatova, 1995 (x)
• A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliès, 1902 (x)
• The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Aleksandr Petrov, 1992 (x)
• The Little Mermaid by Ivan Aksenchuk, 1968 (x)
• Three Sisters and Andrey by Boris Despodov & Andrey Paounov, 2009 (x)

• A Heroine's Journey by Maurenn Murdock
• The Women's Room by Marilyn French
• Are Women Human? by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Aristophanes by Lysistrata
• The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
• The Moon is Always Female by Marge Piercy
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
• The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir
• Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
• Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine by Melissa Bank
• Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
• August is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
• Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

songs for kids, kitties, puppies, baby plants and all things soft and small

• Exploration by Bruno Coulais (x)
• Les avions en papier by Les choristes (x)
• One Summer Day by Joe Hisaishi (x)
• Tree House Playroom by the Gentle Universe (x)
• pet rock by tomcbumpz (x)
• A Smile and a Ribbon by Patience & Prudence (x)
• Danse Flat by Freelance Whales (x)
• Zousan (Little Elephant) by Elizabeth Mitchell (x)
• Sauce by Chancha Via Circuito (x)
• Moon Song by Scarlett Johansson & Joaquin Phoenix (x)
• Summer Day by Coconut Records (ft. Kirsten Dunst) (x)
• Glow Worms by Vashti Bunyan (x)
• Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head by The Free Design (x)

• Pillow Talk - Sylvia (x)
• Spoiled By Your Love - Anita Ward (x)
• Yes Sir, I Can Boogie - Baccara (x)
• Love to Love You Baby - Donna Summer (x)
• Kanashimi no Belladonna - Mayumi Tachibana (x)
• Juna - Clairo (x)

favourite records from my favourite year (link = favourite track)

• (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) by Lynyrd Skynyrd (x)
• Sextant by Herbie Hancock
• Attempted Mustache by Loudon Wainwright (x)
• Heart Food by Judee Sill (x)
• Tres Hombres by ZZ Top (x)
• Natural High by Bloodstone (x)
• Sabbath Bloody Sabbath by Black Sabbath (x)
• Cosmic Slop by Funkadelic (x)
• Aladdin Sane by David Bowie (x)
• Betty Davis by Betty Davis (x)
• Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye (x)
• La Planète Sauvage soundtrack by Alain Goraguer (x)
• Closing Time by Tom Waits (x, x)
• Graffiti Blues by Blue Mitchell (x)
• There Goes Rhymin' Simon by Paul Simon (x)
• I Got a Name by Jim Croce (x)

On nature, community, sustainability and society

• Cosmos by Carl Sagan (skimmed through)
• Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
• In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
• Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Living Planet by David Attenborough
• The Hunt For the Golden Mole by Richard Girling
• Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
• Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
• Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew Bergman
• Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson
• Highway Cats by Janet Taylor Lisle
• The Forest People by Colin M. Turnbull
• Life on the Golden Horn by Mary Wortley Montagu

• A Love Supreme (Miles Davis' attempt to thank his god through his work)
• surrealism
• Days of Future Passed album by The Moody Blues
• a David Bowie interview from 1973 (i'm a person who can take on the guises of different people)
• Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space
• Sugar Plum by Richie Havens
• Entrance to a Colonial Pageant in Which We All Begin to Intricate by Johannes Göransson
• Nina Simone on what freedom is like
• Insight by The Mike Mainieri Quartet (1968)
• Spin, self-titled album (an erotica of sound)
• live performance of Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
• The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
• astral traveling
• lucid dreaming with blue lotus
• Tender Notions by Cécil Leuter

• Libidine 8 by Stelvio Cipriani (x)
• Mujer Mia by Joe Bataan (x)
• Amore in controluce 1 by Gianni Marchetti (x)
• Slow Love by Vladimir Cosma (x)
• Mary's Theme by Stelvio Cipriani (x)
• I'm Not In Love by 10cc (x)
• Sampaguita Theme by Sampaguita (x)
• Madame Lulu by Amedeo Tommasi (x)
• Girl From Crete by Tunesville Inc (x)
• Dreamflower by Tarika Blue (x)
• Flight of the Raven by Emerald Web (x)
• February by Gianni Marchetti (x)
• Summer Breeze by Main Ingredient (x)
• Devika (Goddess) by Lonnie Smith and the Cosmic Echoes (x)
• Contact by Brigitte Bardot (x)
• Ricordandoti by Piero Umiliani (x)
• Morning Sunrise by Weldon Irvine (x)

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the sound, the feeling, the taste, the scent, the art, the psychology, the romance, the illumination, the architecture, the symbolism, the mystery and the memory of blue

• blue album by joni mitchell
• bluets by maggie nelson
• blue velvet (1986) by david lynch
• canticles of ecstasy album by hildegard von bingen
• cyanotype
• perfect blue (1997) by satoshi kon
• タクラマカン album by yoshiko sai
• winter: notes from montana by rick bass
• blue light by mazzy star
• now i feel blue living on earth, what will i do for a rebirth?
• luminiscent creatures album by ichiko aoba
• decision to leave (2022) by park chan-wook
• promise album by sade
• indigo sightings, a poem by meggie gultiano

• You'll Never Find a Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls (x)
• Histoire d'un soir (Bye bye les galères) - Bibi Flash (x)
• Agitations tropicales - L'Imperatrice (x)
• Swing - VST & Co. (x)
• Say Yeah - Kishi Bashi (x)
• Les cactus - Jacques Dutronc (x)
• Monky Disco - Babe Rainbow (x)
• Step No, Step Yes - VST & Co. (x)
• Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel - Tavares (x)
• The Boss - Diana Ross (x)
• I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan (x)
• La lune - Barbagallo (x)
• Young Hearts Run Free - Candi Staton (x)
• Yo Soy Cubano - The Chakachas (x)
• Mysteries of the World - MFSB (x)
• Let's Dance - David Bowie (x)
• Star Wars - Meco (x)
• Disco Inferno - The Trammps (x)

Books

• Poetry
  • I Am the Darker Brother: The Anthology of Modern Poems by Negro Americans
  • Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems by Alice Walker
  • Black Pow-Wow: Jazz Poems by Ted Joans
  • Aloneness by Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Hard Times Require Furious Dancing by Alice Walker
  • The Poems of Langston Hughes (listened through the vinyl version, read by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis)
• Novels, Autobiographies, Essays, Etc.
  • Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex
  • Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo by Ntozake Shange
  • The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughe...

• Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin
• Power of the Witch by Laurie Cabot
• When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone
• Wise Child by Monica Furlong
• Magical Herbalism by Cunningham
• The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjöö
• Red Moon by Miranda Gray
• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedman
• The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
• The Witch in Every Woman by Laurie Cabot
• Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
• Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
• Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
• Witches' Brew
• Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
• Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros
• The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
• Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses by Isab...

• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
• Bony-Legs by Joanna Cole
• Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
• The Secret Language by Ursula Nordstrom
• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lingren
• Wild Child by Monica Furlong
• Chicken Soup, Boots by Maira Kalman
• St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories by Karen Russell
• In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
• Milk in Dreams by Leonora Carrington
• The Witches by Roald Dahl
• Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
• Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola
• The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron
• Juniper by Monica Furlong
• When the Sky is Like Lace by Elinor Lander Horwitz
• Village School by Miss Read

• silk, poppy seeds, caramel, belladonna, childhood stories, french lace, peach pit, strychnine, hibiscus, dusk, shoestring oil, chlorophyll, communion wafer, sage, glitter, hemlock, moth, castor bean, coconut butter, pomegranate, tourmaline, tannis root, folklore, cardamom, lilac wine, incense, cat fur, sumi ink, mugwort, moonbeam

• 'night, Mother (1986)
• A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
• Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
• Alice (1988)
• Amarcord (1973)
• Angel's Egg (1985)
• Auntie Mame (1958)
• Babette's Feast (1987)
• Barbarella (1968)
• Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
• Betty Blue (1986)
• Butterflies are Free (1972)
• Cinema Paradiso (1988)
• Claire's Knee (1970)
• Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
• Cluny Brown (1946)
• Daisies (1966)
• David & Lisa (1962)
• Donkey Skin (1970)
• Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
• Elvira Madigan (1967)

a crate of records to accompany your deepest bedroom cogitation and passionate lovemaking

• My Way - Major Harris (x)
• For You - Prince (x)
• The Promise of Love - Delegation (x)
• Control - Janet Jackson (x)
• Birkin Gainsbourg - Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg (x)
• Let's Stay Together - Al Green (x)
• Life Beyond L.A. - Ambrosia (x)
• Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston (x)
• The Look of Love - Claudine Longet (x)
• Midnight Creeper - Lou Donaldson (x)
• Below the Waves - Heidi Berry (x)
• Promise - Sade (x)
• Bobby Caldwell - Bobby Caldwell (x)
• Midnight Love - Marvin Gaye (x)
• Grace - Jeff Buckley (x)
• Something/Anything? - Todd Rundgren (x)
• Billie Holiday Sings the Blues - Billie H...x)

• A Case of You
• River
• I Think I Understand
• Both Sides Now
• Hejira
• Cactus Tree
• People's Parties
• Blue Motel Room
• Twisted

• Egon Schiele's sketches
• David & Lisa (a pearl of a girl!)
• Marguerite de Valois' wine dress
• this plum clafoutis recipe
• Betty Blue
• iconic La Boum dance scene
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
• Baby by Donnie & Joe Emerson
• Tomorrow's Gone by Charlie Megira
• Hot Burrito #1 by The Flying Burrito Brothers (i'm your toy, i'm your old boy / but i want nobody but you to love me)
• Almodóvar red
• the spell, amas veritas
• photographs taken by Brassaï
• Abelard & Heloise
• Frederico García Lorca poems
• the best sex scene ever on cinema, Le mepris (donc, tu m'aimes totalement? oui, je t'aime totalement, tendrement, tragiquement)
• In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar Wai
• To Be in Love by Gwendolyn Brooks (you are the beautiful half / of a golden...

music for kitchen witchery and memories of childhood cooking and dancing with my father; a home as hearty as a bowl of arroz valenciana

• Sofrito by Mongo Santamaria (x)
• Oye como va by Tito Puente (x)
• Brujeria by El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico (x)
• Yo soy Cubano by The Chakachas (x)
• Gypsy Woman by Joe Bataan (x)
• Ella Fue (She was the One) by Fania All Stars (x)
• Quizas Quizas Quizas by Los Panchos (x)
• Black Magic Woman by Santana (x)
• Volare (Nel Blu di Pinto di Blu) by Gipsy Kings (x)
• Cuenta Bien by Edwin Bonilla (x)
• Magalenha by Sergio Mendes (x)
• Fever Boogaloo by La Lupe (x)

• Des Bisous Partout - MUNYA (x)
• Cherry-Coloured Funk - Cocteau Twins (x)
• FOA - wwoman (x)
• Blush - Love, Sophie (x)
• Chrysalis - Dianna Lopez (x)
• Unknown - Ravyn Lenae (x)
• Stay Tru - Mereba (x)
• Visions of Someone Special, On a Wall of Reflections - Melody's Echo Chamber (x)
• Didn't Cha Know - Erykah Badu (x)
• I'm Not in Love - Kelsey Lu (x)
• Les Fleurs - Minnie Riperton (x)
• Balade fantôme - L'Imperatrice (x)
• Cool Cat - Juliette Armanet (x)
• Flight of the Raven - Emerald Web (x)
• Glory Box - Portishead (x)
• Teenage Blue - Dreamgirl (x)
• La Luna Enamorada - Kali Uchis (x)
• All of Human Knowledge Made Us Dumb - Sofia Isella (x)
• Dreaming - Winter (x)

crack open your bones and you will see the universe

• Female Energy - Willow Smith (x)
• Nature's Joint - ((O)) (x)
• pulling weeds - blue is my name (x)
• Healing - Sampa the Great (x)
• Acheter ta peau - Les Passagers (x)
• Solar Flares - Sven Libaek (x)
• Into Dust - Mazzy Star (x)
• Soy rebelde - Sola (x)
• Dedicated to Werner Braun - Mythos (x)
• Oblivion - Grimes (x)
• meditation scene in Fantastic Planet (x)

favourite films from my favourite year

• Belladonna of Sadness
• Heavy Traffic
• Cleopatra Jones
• Badlands
• Lady Snowblood
• Don't Look Now
• Fantastic Planet
• The Holy Mountain
• Leptirica
• Black Mama, White Mama
• The Spirit of the Beehive
• Amarcord
• Day For Night
• Paper Moon
• Coffy
• János vitéz
• The Wicker Man
• Thriller: A Cruel Picture
• American Graffiti
• Willie Dynamite