Who Are the Ancestors I Choose?

    "We were kids without fathers...so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves."
                                            Jay-Z






The Poets

 Emily Dickinson
 Missy Higgins
 Sarah McLachlan
 Alanis Morissette
 Florence Mary Leontine Welch
 Isaac Slade
 Eddie Vedder
 Chris Bernstorf
 Levi the Poet
 The Still, Small Voice
 Mary Lambert
 Shel Silverstein
 Anne Sexton
 Brandi Roe
 Jewel
 MewithoutYou
 Ciera Simon
 Patty Griffin
 Ellen Hopkins
 Thomas Howard
 Gayle St. John
 Autumn Joy Fitzgerald
 E.E. Cummings
 Greg Diamanti
 Cain & Cyle Barnes
 Sam Pinkerton



 Commonalities: Sorrow, Romance, Richness, Whimsicality/Story Tellers, Hope, Boldness, Loudness, Peculiarity, Uniquely Refined, Authenticity, Rogue, Tenacious, Illumination, Lament, Proclamation, Solemn, Melancholic, Intelligent, Brave, Spoken, Silent, Honest, Rythmic, Musky, Gravelly, Woodsy, Smooth, Idealistic


The Painters/Designers/Visionaries/Brave Adventurers
Kim Rice Kim Rice Kim Rice
Leslie Dallam
Caitlin Hall
Kacy Stone
Hatch
Monk Stump
The Air Balloon Woman
Rani Cozad
My Mother
Folk


Commonalities:
They see in color like I do.