Writing, reading, crocheting, knitting, reading Slavic lit and history, talking with friends in a quiet setting, coffee and tea, good music
Jesus, St. Paul, St. Peter, Lenin--Gorbachev (just to see what the heck was going on in their heads), Vaclav Havel, Alexander Dubcek, Russian people, Amy Carmichael, Bono, Rob Bell, Donald Miller, Stephen Christian (in depth)On top of that, those who love Christ, those who are unafraid to be themselves, those who are unashamed of listening to hair metal (guilty pleasure)........................... those who are unclear about what life has to offer..............those who don't have everything figured out and are unabashed in saying that they don't know it all.........those who love to use ellipses...........word people.......men with hearts of poets.......
All styles, especially hard rock/punk/metal......I basically run the whole gammut (?) of music.Favorites right now are Underoath and Anberlin, plus some classic stuff like Billy Joel, Led Zeppelin (especially the first album!), and Queen.Get the Cities CD by Anberlin!!!!!!!!!
Lord of the Rings trilogy, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Star Wars, The Princess Bride, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Mystery Sciene Theatre 3000, Godzilla films, Signs and The Village (I love M. Night Shyamalan!), Singles (Cameron Crowe, ditto), The Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The Nightmare Before Christmas (Tim Burton rocks, too), Good Night and Good Luck, Everything is Illuminated, Braveheart, Anges with Dirty Faces, The Public Enemy, White Heat, and Yankee Doodle Dandy (I love James Cagney, if only he were alive! ;)) Yellow Submarine, Luther, The First Circle, Hitchhiker's Guide the the Galaxy
Animaniacs, Scrubs, Monty Python......even though I don't watch a lot of regular television anymore
Pretty much anything by Donald Miller, Rob Bell's Velvet Elvis, Anthem by Ayn Rand, The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross, Henry V, Under the Overpass, Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott, any poetry by Alexander Pushkin or Mikhail Lermontov, Faith Despite the KGB, Candles Behind the Wall, John Eldredge's Waking the Dead.......many more. Henri Nouwen's The Inner Voice of Love, Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip
Jesus, St. Paul, St. Peter, Vaclav Havel, persecuted Christians in the Soviet Union, Martin Luther King, Jr.,