other countries. movies. people. social behavior. music. the Y. extreme heat (like saunas and steam rooms). learning new things about food and nutrition. non-profit organizations. social justice. conflict of all kinds. travel. googling random shit on the internet. friendship. good alcoholic beverages. the outdoors. finding ways to challenge myself. cooking. children. religion. the church of the brethren. conversation. and nate.
radiohead. the beatles. coldplay. spearhead. leonard cohen. ray lamontagne. the new neil young album. led zeppelin. ani difranco. indigo girls. jack johnson. joni mitchell. bob dylan. good old folk music.
high fidelity. almost famous. lost in translation. the power of one. playing by heart. the color purple. apollo 13. the shawshank redemption. reality bites.
six feet under. law and order. west wing. er.
fifth sacred thing -- starhawk. poinsonwood bible, animal dreams, prodigal summer and the bean trees -- barbara kingsolver. the da vinci code -- dan brown. almost everything that arundhati roy has written. bridge to teribithia -- katherine patterson. a wrinkle in time -- madaleine l'engle. in the absence of the sacred -- jerry mander.