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Aimlessness and indolence
Beer (but most U.S. brands are crap) Being alone Biographies Blues Birds Books and bookstores Breasts Buddhism and Zen and, mostly, just sitting practice Cabooses (I've always wanted to own one) Canadians Catalpa trees, especially big old ones in flower Climbing Coffee Costa Rica Desserts (almost any kind) and especially cookies Dodge Vipers (the ultimate muscle car) My family Famous Wafers and refrigerator cake Fatigue, weariness, of certain kinds Feeling fit Fiction though I rarely read it nowadays The Fish Fry (a local radio show) Flannel sheets in winter Flowers - any kind Formulas and, at one time, math Fruit juice - apple, orange, limeade, lemonade, etc. Geography (both physical and human) My hammock, in nice weather, though I rarely use it The History Channel Ironing clothes Land Rovers, preferably ancient and battered Large houses, the larger and older the better Linda Hall Library Linotype machines God bless them Little movies (foreign movies, indies) Long days (long hours of light) |
Lost friends who reappear
Pepperidge farm Milano double chocolate cookies Motorcycles (though I haven't owned one in years) Mozart Munich, Geneva, Amsterdam, Salzburg, and Boulder (CO) Mystery novels Natural history NPR Open space Opera Orchards (I'd like to own one) Painters: Monet, Van Gogh, Sargent, Hockney, Klimt, Hopper Paintings (favorites, to be filled in later) Personal pleasures Certain poems Quakers Reading Rilke: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rilke is the master The Rozelle Court Salad bars, esp. big ones with a lot of variety. Taking showers Sleep, when I get enough of it Snowed-in days (like the one on Valentine road) Songwriters: Warren Zevon, Tom Petty, and Don Henley Spring - trees in flower, puffy clouds, etc. Stone, particularly El Capitan granite Soccer Surfing the net Swords (esp. Japanese) & fencing, though I don't fence Tall girls in short dresses Tracey Ullman Travel Trees and forests and rain forests The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Sela Ward: 1 2 Wilderness Words |