Family, faith, horses, our parakeets, reading, travel, gardening.... living life right here, right now.
People who enjoy other people for who they are. Have similar interests. Or at least mutual respect. Have character and a basic moral grounding that doesn't use other people. Seek to build up rather than tear down. Who understand what "it's bigger on the inside than out" really means! Horse people that love to talk shop and share training tidbits. Oh you mean celebrities? I'd like to hunker down over breakfast somewhere on the Maine seacoast with George W. and Laura Bush. I don't do "formal" very well. Also would like to do same with Steven Spielberg. Pope Benny (said with great affection) The Pope I can get formal for. Novelist Robert Jordan. His writing is brilliant in the Wheel of Time series. Haha, Jesus can wait until I'm on the other side, OK? The JC in my heart I try to listen to is enough for today. I'll leave the historical guy in the past. Stephen King. Mel Gibson. Stephen Hawkins, the scientist. Rick Springfield I've met. Thank you God and Rick! It would be something to talk with Hawkins and Springfield at the same time. And the people in the check out line at any given store. Life is too short to not enjoy people.
Rick Springfield, Aersosmith, Alice Cooper, Russ Taff, Amy Grant, Windham Hill... varied and no one genre!
Favorite: It's A Wonderful Life (B&W version), Ben Hur, The Stand, GWTW, LOTR, Pixar's "Cars", "Happy Feet", "Titanic" (any version of that theme).
Natinal Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel are favorites. Trick My Truck, South Park, really don't watch much.... love science fiction.
Currently reading: "Alice Cooper, Golf Monster" by Alice Cooper. Believe it or not first most for the golfing tips so I can play with hubby! Secondly, I came of age when Alice's band did. Finished Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series through book 13. Waiting on next one. Highly recommend. Last book read: "Atlantis" by Greg Donegan. Highly recommend. Finished reading: "Bag of Bones" by Stephen King. Awesome read! Rich writing. Beauty of words. Scary stuff, too! Also, "The First Horseman" by John Case. Thriller ! Also, "The Mummy or Ramses The Damned" by Anne Rice. Trying to read "The Visitation" - Frank Peretti (fabulous author) Ever get a book and you just can't get through it? Tolkein's "Sillmarillion" was like that. Never got past the creation chapters. Read "The Hobbit" and the LOTR series several times in my life.
Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman and a dog named Lava (read "A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava: From Baghdad With Love" My mom, the late great couch archeologist. Pope Benny (said with affection), late Pope John Paul II (cousin!), my friends, Laura Bush, Whoopie Goldberg, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mother Theresa, my girl friends, among others. Especially the Mixteca weavers in Oaxaca, Mexico. A group of women who have revived their native weaving art, formed a co-op to help them be themselves be self supporting.