taking walks (especially hikes), reading, music history, rain, drinking russian tea, avocados, potatoes, staring at trees, admiring sloths, and taking pictures of people when they least expect it.
"But Oh! The blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearless on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away." -Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, "A Life for a Life", 1866
Stereolab, Katia B, Mussorgsky, the New Pornographers, Ravel, Mirah, Bebel Gilberto, Edith Piaf, NEKO CASE, Sleater-Kinney, Feist, Joni Mitchell, Joseph Lamb, Nellie Mckay, Martita Ramirez, Rachmaninoff, Tegan and Sara, Jacques Brel, Dvorak, Jeff Buckley, Mock Orange, Bartok, PJ Harvey...
The Idiot by Dostoevsky and Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates (our consolation, right Angela?)