Trails with great trees, running on the trails with great trees, hiking any "hill" I can locate, kayaking, 5ks, rock climbing, volunteering, installation art, oil on canvas, all art really, old pianos, smoky red wine, very dark chocolate, vintage book stores, exploring/haunting small local eateries/coffee shops, pot lucks with friends, board games, air hockey!, fireworks, wellness, organic anything, snail mail, postcards, traveling abroad, most sports, roasting things, baking new things, the food network, UT! (this is right after the Longhorn Rosebowl win)
Sebastian my darling.
Someone who can astonish Paris with an apple. NOT Paris Hilton. People who think you can smile and still be serious. People who play with sparklers. NCAA Football lovers. Pumpkin carvers. Bakers. Portland People. Those who "[p]ractice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty." - Anne Herbert
Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Liszt, Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky, Michael Andrews, Michael Nyman, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Elvis Costello, Ozomatli, Ben Folds (old and new), Jason Mraz, Ice Cream Creatures, The Paper South, Radiohead, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Tool, Filter, Portishead, Massive Attack, Susan Tedeschi, Sheryl Crow, Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, Ms. Fitzgerald - I really love it all.
Goonies, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Somewhere in Time, Donnie Darko, Rushmore, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Shining, The Triplets of Belleville, Army of Darkness, Office Space - I need to watch more movies. It's a goal.
Grey's Anatomy.
Dylan Thomas, Hemmingway, Vonnegut, Kundera, Frost, Poe, Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, Oliver Wilde, Kafka, Baudelaire and so on. Both of Malcolm Gladwell's most recent, nonfiction on art/music when I have the time, difficult old writings by Dickens/Dostoevsky. The Bunny Suicides
Family and friends, a lot of Nobel prize winners :)