Egads!
Textures & temperatures. Sounds, intentional or otherwise. Smelling everything. Digging in with my hands and nails.
Slowing down.
Colossi of all shapes, forms, sizes and colors.
Fellow wizards.
Not layering, but melting and then hardening into a whole. '60s pop/psych. Doom metal. Good people with instruments, smiling.
Star Wars, duh.
NOVA!
Whatever makes me ache.
Chris van Allsburg, Leo Lionni, things I'd want to read to my kids.
People who laugh with open eyes and their heads up (not buried in hands), and maybe cry that way too.