My favorite things
Here are just a few things that cheer me up, in no particular order. I plan to continue adding more to this list in future blogs and then compile them into a more complete document as time goes by.
- Sitting outside and looking at the night sky and its faraway inhabitants
- Playing guitar
- Jamming with other musicians
- A hug from a loved one
- The Pacific Ocean breeze sweeping o’er us
- A postcard from a friend
- Someone laughing at my jokes
- Weekend Becomes Eclectic on KCRW
- A really good episode of Gilmore Girls
- A really fun episode of Says You
- Trader Joe’s Vanilla Bean Cream Soda
- Finding a long-lost friend
- Kindness
- Feeling safe
Quote for the time being:
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
– E. M. Forster, "The Tercentenary of the ‘Areopagitica’," Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)
