i really enjoy warm sunshine.
i am also fond of love.
The Baha'i Faith, religion, transformation, traveling, justice, art, literature, singing, Biblical allusions in songs, service, dogs, tea, burning spiritual veils, breaking out of my self, people, aaaand those breadsticks from Olive Garden...my oh my...
this incredible man:
"In this Day a great festival is taking place in the Realm above; for whatsoever was promised in the sacred Scriptures hath been fulfilled. This is the Day of great rejoicing. It behoveth everyone to hasten towards the court of His nearness with exceeding joy, gladness, exultation and delight and to deliver himself from the fire of remoteness."
(Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p. 78)
anything that is a ladder by which my soul may ascend; Tom Waits, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Moby, the Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Melanie Safka, Joni Mitchell, Regina Spektor, Common Market, M.I.A, Andrew Lloyd Webber, musicals, India.Arie, Norah Jones, Modest Mouse, the Postal Service, Devon Gundry, Amy Winehouse, Feist, conscious hip hop, soul, opera, classical, etc etc.
Little Miss Sunshine, Stranger Than Fiction, Pan's Labyrinth, Amelie, Forrest Gump, the Princess Bride, O Brother Where Art Thou, Best in Show, Adaptation, Napoleon Dynamite, Labyrinth, Anchorman, Fiddler on the Roof, Crash, The Jerk, about a million others...
the Office (BBC and American), 30 Rock, Futurama, Simpsons, The Daily Show
Jane Eyre, Les Miserables, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (and anything by Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, etc.) the Essential Rumi, The Poisonwood Bible, From Copper to Gold, the Diary of Juliet Thompson, the Hidden Words, all the Holy Writings
'Abdu'l-Baha, Shoghi Effendi, Dorothy Baker, William and Marguerite Sears, Amatu'l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum, Tahirih, Martha Root, Lua Getsinger, Joan Dunn, Ken Bowers, Erica Toussaint