listen to: Bob Dylan, dan bern, AIR, I am the WTC, Pete Yorn, Lyle Lovett to name a few
artists: local is always better: Walter Anderson, Birney Imes, and others when i think of them
Eudora Welty, Madeleine L'Engle, Nikki Giovanni, Pablo Neruda, and did I mention Eudora Welty?