laughing with friends until my eyes tear up. baseball games with the hotdogs, nachos,peanuts and overpriced drinks. Fuzzy sweaters. lucky dawg. Long outdoorsy walks on trails through woods. Beaches. The sand between my toes, salt water drying on my sunburnt skin, a cool drink in my hand.Moments...those unexplained bits and pieces of your life that seem more real, more poignant, more alive and almost more than you can stand to feel.The warm feelings you get from a hug, a perfect summers day, an hour long massage or a cold night in front of the fire with a hot chocolate
People who can fill these qualifications or just someone for a laugh or a story:Kahlil Gibran:On FRIENDSHIP:Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay." And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught. And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
the faint, air, stereolab, billy joel,wilco, eels, pulp, catpower, blue october, india arie
American Movie. Amelie. The Dark CRYSTAL. Neverending Story. Last Unicorn. Sound of Music. Super troopers. The Devil Wears Prada
The OFFICE, CSI, COLD CASE, LAW and ORDER, SVU, Sex in the City, Curb your enthusiasm, Alias
Anything that really makes you think. When you put down the book and two days later it is still burning in your mind. Life of Pi, anything by Thich Nhat Hanh, Current favs: Dogs of Babel,The Remains of the Day, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Haddon. Running w/scissors-augusten Burroughs. The Tattoed Girl-Joyce Carol Oates. The Secret Life of Bees. The Alchemist, Veronika decides to Die-Paulo Coehlo
My mom and dad.Mother TheresaAnyone willing to risk losing everything for standing up for what they truly believe in.