Spending time with my kids and family, church activities, reading, hiking, playing with my dog, volunteering, travel, photography, Yoga, working out at the gym, games (Chess, Monopoly Here & Now, Settlers of Catan, Rook, Phase 10, Rummy), mission work. I love meeting friends for coffee and conversation, intellectual debates, and deep discussions. I also enjoy pondering deep questions and discussing politics, religion, and current events. I espcially love to learn!
I'd like to meet:
Jesus, Sandra Day O'Connor, Stephen King. If these folks were still alive, I would like to meet JRR Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., Mother Teresa, Mike Yaconelli, Albert Einstein, my grandfather. From the Bible: Ruth, Peter, Paul, the writer of Ecclesiastes, David.
Music:
Jack Johnson, Jars of Clay, James Taylor, The Eagles, Third Day, Stone Temple Pilots, Dave Crowder, Sarah McLachlan, GNR, The Police, Tom Petty, Toby Mac, Mozart, Bach, George Strait, U2, Burlap to Cashmere, Jennifer Knapp, Lifehouse, The Calling, Madonna (her old music), Everclear, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Aerosmith
Movies:
Lately, I have enjoyed "quirky" movies. I loved Little Miss Sunshine & Everything is Illuminated. I also love The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Shawshank Redemption, Simon Birch, Shadowlands, Harry Potter, The Wedding Singer, Shrek, Million Dollar Baby, Memento, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Green Mile, A Beautiful Mind, Finding Nemo, Ice Age, Johnny Depp movies (Finding Neverland, Secret Window, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, etc.).
Television:
Scrubs, The Office, News Radio, Seinfeld, 24, Lost.
Books:
I have always loved to read. I read The Bible (my favorite book is Ecclesiastes in the Message Version). I love anything by C.S. Lewis (especially Mere Christianity, The Chronicles of Narnia, A Grief Observed, Til We Have Faces). I also love The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Messy Spirituality, Stephen King (The Gunslinger Series, The Stand, Needful Things, Hearts in Atlantis), A Prayer for Owen Meaney and other books by John Irving, Harry Potter series, Clyde Edgerton (Walking Across Egypt, Raney, The Floatplane Notebooks), Photography Books (especially nature photography and national parks), The YaYa Sisterhood and Little Alters Everywhere, To Kill a Mockingbird, I love to read true crime stories, John Grisham (especially The Street Lawyer, the Testament, The Summons, King of Torts), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Seventh Son, Margaret Atwood (The Handmaids Tail, The Blind Assassin, Cats Eye), She's Come Undone, Pride and Prejudice, The Lovely Bones, 1984, The Poisonwood Bible, Mike Yaconelli (Messy Spirituality, Dangerous Wonder), The Color Purple, Fresh Wind Fresh Fire, My Utmost For His Highest, Streams in the Desert. I also love Goodnight Moon, Where the Wild Things Are, Love You Forever, Time For Bed. Freakonomics, nonfiction books by John Krakauer.
Heroes:
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