Nurturing the relationships in my life. Fresh air. Road trips. Kayaking. My kitty. Good food. Good restaurants. Jogging. Walking. Fiction when I'm not in school. Interesting movies. Music--listening to it, watching it, singing it. Floating in fresh water. Traveling. Good conversation.
Kind people. Funny people. Thoughtful people. Ethical people.
Eddie From Ohio, Vance Gilbert, Christopher Williams, Dar Williams, Coldplay, U2, Fleetwood Mac, my mom and my sister, live folky acousticy stuff, The Paperboys, The Clumsy Lovers, Sarah Harmer, Ray LaMontagne, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Jonatha Brooke, Cat Stevens, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Dixie Chicks, Alison Krauss, Alicia Keys, India Arie, Heart, Feist, and 5 million other things.
Walking and Talking, Elizabeth and most things with Cate Blanchett, Pride and Prejudice (BBC version!) and most things by Jane Austen, Little Women, Bandits, Life is Beautiful, In America, Crash, Bridget Jones' Diary, Singles, Say Anything, Mermaids, White Christmas, Home for the Holidays, It's a Wonderful Life, a number of Chinese films, Frequency, human interest stories...
ABC dramas! What About Brian, Lost, Brothers and Sisters, Men in Trees... and Gilmore Girls. ABC.com is bad--BAD! And Little House on the Prairie. :) You know, when there's time for all of that.
Science and Health, The Kite Runner, historical fiction--esp by Morgan Llwellyn, Pride and Prejudice and other Jane Austen books, Louisa May Alcott, Jodi Picoult--esp Keeping Faith, Harry Potter, Anne of Green Gables, and more human interest stories
People who remind me that life is bigger than me, but not impossibly so. People who are striving to create positive change--whether on a small scale, or on a big scale. Because really, even the small helps the big.