Seven Things

Here's a meme that's been making it around the blogosphere. Let's see what happens!

7 Things I plan/hope to do/ see before I transition:

1. See my family/children centered & happy


2. Visit Tibet


3. Visit the Grand Canyon


4. See Jamaica tranquil enough to be able to retire there


5. Visit Japan


6. Learn to play the guitar


7. See grandchildren

7 Favorite Books

1. Another Life by Derek Walcott


2. Love in Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


3. Shar by Kamau Brathwaite


4. The Human Stain by Phillip Roth


5. Reel from the Life Movie by Tony McNeill


6. The Duppy by Tony Winkler—See Post on 2/25/06


7. Miguel Street by VS Naipaul

7 Favorite movies

1. Pulp Fiction


2. Fight Club


3. Young Frankenstein


4. Godfather


5. A Christmas Story


6. Lion in Winter


7. Matrix

7 Favorite CDs

1. Natty Dread by Bob Marley


2. Rapture by Anita Baker


3. Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis


4. Blackheart Man by Bunny Wailer


5. Best of the Spinners


6. Best of Marvin Gaye


7. Best of Al Green

7 websites/blogs I visit regularly:

1. http://nalohopkinson.blogspot.com/


2. http://maudnewton.com/blog/


3. http://www.johndufresne.com/


4. Mad Bull


5. Stephen Bess


6. http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/americas/jamaica/


7. Nicolette Bethel’s Blog

7 Places that I have vacationed and liked:

1. Neusa, Colombia


2. Negril, Jamaica


3. Paris, France


4. St. Thomas, Virgin Islands


5. New York, New York


6. Progreso, Mexico


7. London, England

7 People who inspired me:

1. Dennis Scott


2. Derek Walcott


3. Kamau Brathwaite


4. Bob Marley


5. VS Naipaul (arrrrrgh)


6. Mervyn Morris


7. Jimmy Carnegie