cooking, spending time with old folks, animals, psychology, camping, vegetarianism, saving trees, family, peanut butter/chocolate chip cookies, long walks, people watching, good dining experiences, good music (duh), self healing, bright colors, good hugs, coffee, haiku poetry, kindness...polka dots, tea, watching plants grow
long lost friends...musicians...like-minded folks
so much.... the abridged version and first people that come to mind: hanne huckleberg, kenny wheeler, norma winstone, jay clayton, wayne shorter, joni mitchell, chris lightcap, tony malaby, bill mchenry, nancy king, glenn moore, luciana souza, danilo perez, stevie wonder, michael jackson, sly and the family stone, the beatles, john hollenbeck, dominique eade, bill frisell, theo bleckman, ben monder, lee konitz, gerry mulligan, chet baker, ella fitzgerald, sarah vaughan, billie holiday, betty carter, joe lovano, keith jarrett, fred hersch, stan getz, paul motian...that's a good start.
the three amigos, being john malkovich, princess bride, goonies, ghostbusters, what about bob, waiting for guffman, back to the future trilogy, star wars trilogy (the original), planes trains and automobiles, office space, jackie chan movies, coming to america, breakfast club, weird science, midnight madness, teen wolf, welcome to the dollhouse, mallrats, heathers, dogma, weekend at bernies (you know you love it...), hambone and hillie, the vacation movies, lord of the rings...
80's sitcoms, jeopardy, cooking shows, the painter guy on PBS, it's all rotting my brain...
anything by Tom Robbins, the Dalai Lama, or Eckhart Tolle...Ishmael, Emotional Intelligence, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart, The Nature of Personal Reality, 1984, Zen in the Art of Archery, Japanese Death Poems, What To Do Till The Messiah Comes, Breathe - you are alive!
my poppa al, the dalai lama, my father-in-law wayne, my mother, albert einstein, MLK, musical heroes for musical reasons, my chosen family, people that have found truth and compassion.