i'm about to turn thirty and this makes me happy.
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gardening, inventing my own hand-written "fonts", reading on the beach on an intensely hot day, running, cooking without recipes, organic farming/CSAs, finding amazing thrift store deals, dancing (especially right now my hip hop class), music!, throwing ridiculous theme parties, giving creative gifts, finding out what makes people/friends tick, Spanish language and Latin culture, travel, writing--creative and reporting, immigrant rights, the Sojourners movement, US impact on developing nations, becoming whole...
old friends, new friends...
the garden state soundtrack, stevie wonder, india arie, sarah maclachlan, out of the grey, jack johnson's latest, classical piano, switchfoot, anything funk, lauryn hill, coldplay, dave, meaningless but oh-so-fun 93.3 (current hip-hop/r&b), the indigo girls, and for old times' sake, early amy grant.
favorite stupid fun: waiting for guffman. favorite romantic: ever after. favorite coming-of-age: garden state. favorite seriously life-changing: les mis.
my one true love is "the office" (and jim halpert, of course.)
let your life speak, compassion, the spirit catches you and you fall down, the harry potters, girl meets god, the kite runner, poisonwood bible, lots more...
the Egal siblings and Nyawech's parents. nyawech herself. mama t. henri nouwen. dorothy day. tim & dena. inventor of soy milk.