Things I love today, or at least appreciate today. I’m feeling a little out of place and time, a common feature of my wife’s being out of town. Suddenly I’m working at 1am, up until 3am. So I’m looking for a little groundedness and goodness:
- A good story, well told. You should read Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind. And read Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games series. Oh, and the first 20 minutes of Up. Boy, every time I see that I laugh, and cry.
- Anachronistic hobbies. Mine include writing letters (and sometimes writing them on my Hermes Featherweight typewriter!), baking bread, and listening to big band music (and sometimes even dancing a little Lindy Hop). But by all means, cultivate some orchids, do jigsaw puzzles (and if you love, love, love me, buy me a Stave puzzle), paint model airplanes, build a Wimshurst Machine.
- Stevie Wonder’s I Believe (When I Fall in Love).
- That moment when you realize that your friends are doing something specifically because they want to help you. And accepting that help in the spirit in which it is given.
- Unbridled enthusiasm. Find something at which you can direct some non-ironic, genuine passion. With full-on gusto.
- Singing out loud, preferably with a group.
- My wife. Never thought I would be in a long-term relationship, much less married. And I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the experience (see Enthusiasm, unbridled).
- Mondays. I love Mondays, with its whiff of blank page and anticipation. I know, I know, Fridays (Eddie from Ohio’s Blue Jeans makes the case). But I still love me some Mondays.
- Structure. Agency is for psychologists, economists, and suckers. Give me structure any day.
What do you love?
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I love when people whose blogs I read like the same (semi)obscure things as me – in this case, Eddie from Ohio! (Especially “Looking out the Fishbowl”.)
Also, fresh-baked Challah, the thrill of a new book arriving in the mail, reading and re-reading stories by Jorge Luis Borges, and the smell of a new book bought from the store.
And to steal one of yours, the unbridled enthusiasm bit is really amazing.
A slow thread on love is apparently the one thing that will distract me from killing the spiders on my porch whilst they are still drunk with the mid-day heat.
Way too many songs, movies, books, and comedic routines to mention, but”Signed, Sealed, Delivered” and “Tell Me Something Good” (preferably the live version where Chaka is still playing with Rufus)–these almost always make me happy.
Rain.
Unexpected mail from someone who means me no harm.
Videos of cats falling off of things. Videos of animals sleeping. Videos of animals dressed as people.
Cleaning something dirty, straightening something crooked.
When my mother strokes my hair.
Revenge, served cold.
Not worrying about paying my bills.