Mostly all forms of humor and enthusiasm. Reading memoirs, optimistic fiction, teaching my son to love music, my family
Happy, lucky people.
Anything that is natural. Doc Watson, Oskar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald ("How High the Moon"). Chopin, Brahms, Louis Armstrong, Paul Simon, Aretha. Gallon Drunk all time favorite from college. Have to have that one if everything from college was taken away.
True Romance
Zadie Smith's White Teeth. Loved that book. Love optimism in fiction, as in Jack Keroac's writing. He was upbeat with everything he saw. Barbara Kingsolver is great this way. Can't stand mysery but love Flannery O'Connor. The Violent Bear it Away.
My Mother.