Halloween
Frank and Emme the cats
My morning cup of coffee
Sunrise from the Bay Bridge
Sleeping on memory foam
The smell of fire
Growing giant pumpkins
The stillness of early morning
My slippers
Santa Ana winds
(can't get 'em anywhere but So Cal)
Having no deadlines
Backpacking
Ghost stories
Mexican food
The green flash
Red wine
Dining outside in the yard with good friends
Just once I'd like to wake up in Hawaii on Christmas morning
And one day see all the animals in the Galapagos Islands
Joseph Campbell, Joan of Arc, Lewis & Clark, Abraham Lincoln, Buddha, my mother's birth family. And you too, of course.
There's too much to list, really. About the only thing I don't listen to is rap.
In my car at the moment:
Sufjan Stevens
Imogen Heap
Tori Amos
Nick Drake
Louis Armstrong
Ella Fitzgerald
Miles Davis
The Dandy Warhols
Radiohead
The Shins
Rosie Thomas
Catherine Feeny
Cary Brothers
Etienne de Rocher
Cat Stevens
Death Cab for Cutie
Aimee Mann
Elliott Smith
The Fray
Aqualung
Foo Fighters
The Secret 6
The Killingtons
Tom Petty
Coldplay
LAGQ
Nickel Creek
American Beauty (all time favorite!)
Big Fish
Dumb and Dumber (possibly the funniest movie ever)
Elf (also great for a laugh)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Forrest Gump
The Game
Garden State
Harry Potter (all)
The Last Unicorn (I kid you not; I own it on VHS)
Office Space
Poltergeist
Rear View Window
The Secret of Nimh
The Shawshank Redemption
Sixteen Candles
The Sixth Sense
Star Wars trio (but only the original three)
Thelma and Louise
Wild at Heart
And so many others....
Grey's Anatomy
Six Feet Under (RIP)
The Office
Family Guy
The Simpsons
Ghost Whisperer
South Park
I'm an HGTV junkie.
You must get a Digital Video Recorder (DVR). Control your television instead of it controlling you.
Here is a very abbreviated list of favorites. What's listed here is good stuff and you should give it a try it.
Sula
The Awakening
Play It As It Lays
Geek Love
A Wrinkle In Time
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Anything by Hans Christian Andersen
Poetry by Robinson Jeffers and Gary Snyder
I don' t know if I've ever had one. Maybe my expectations are set too high.
I was named after the heroine in the movie, Doctor Zhivago, but I have never watched the movie. There's too much pressure in being named after a heroine.