1. Because I'm here
2. This place is unbelievable (was staring at a bouquet of purple irises for so long yesterday)
3. Kalamata olives
4. Crows fly towards the sunset in winter every night
5. Great art
6. Guilty pleasures
7. Road trips and car conversations
8. Making songs
9. Microphones
10. Led Zeppelin, Jamiroquai, Bob Marley (if you've gotta clean your house)
11. Mindy Smith, Rebecca Martin, Lizz Wright (if you've gotta update your Quicken)
12. Public Radio
13. Pets...my cats and their expressions of catness give me warm fuzzies every day
14. The science & environment sections of newspapers
15. The human body, in which I dwell, is a constant mystery, a constant conversation
16. Any system -- Enneagram, Feng Shui, Myers-Briggs, Vastu
17. Shaman
18. A really good pen
19. Funny TV (ummm, right now The New Girl is cracking me up every week)
20. Catching people in the act of kindness towards strangers
21. Puttering in the garden with my not-so-green thumb
22. Ikea diplays
23. Foot rubs
24. Pajamas
25. Being aware of how lucky I am
26. God bless probiotics
27. Entire days when there is nothing on my calendar
28. My friends
29. Sunshine, ocean breeze, the smell of cedar and pine trees
30. No matter what, we always have another chance to get it right...no matter if it's the way we expected or not
31. First love
32. There are people on the planet who created Moonstruck, Tout le Matins du Monde, Brokeback Mountain, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Being There, Waitress. Thank you.
33. Researching things....especially geneology, home histories!
34. Mosaics & ornementation
35. Gathering around a fire
36. Erte
37. To fall off the edge of earth into the sea of stars
38. To be bliss
39. To love
40. To surrender
