(This was going to be an “About Me” page, but I realized I’d rather just list things I like. So that’s what I did.)
- thunderstorms
- abandoned buildings
- fireflies, crickets, cicadas
- candles, incense
- sunlight, moonlight, starlight, lamplight
- reflections in puddles on rainwet streets
- baking cookies and eating them
- sending and receiving real mail
- old stuff in general
- tapestries in bold colors
- late-night phone calls
- henna
- stories
- photo albums
- people
- pockets
- paper and ink
- the smell of driveway tar in the summer
- chilling on rooftops
- pretending I know how to dance
- hugs (the long, proper kind)
- green, blue, brown, and deep red
- music (mostly the mellow kind)
- songs featuring violin, viola, piano, or mandolin
- playing the piano and learning to play the guitar
- obsolete technology
- thrift store treasure hunting
- cleaning my apartment
- poppies and daisies and sunflowers
- holes in fences
- going on random adventures
- driving, biking, walking, swimming
- my flower-and-vegetable garden
- going to concerts (especially small local ones)
- flowy skirts that spin out when you twirl
- $5 Sunday yoga
- bonfires
- the theatre/pretending to be classy
- grocery shopping
- tea (especially chai), blankets, and books (especially together)
- staying up til sunrise with good company
- being barefoot
- tree swings
- subways
- postcards
- foreign languages
- dabbling in all kinds of crafts (sewing, crocheting, making jewelry & paper snowflakes, scrapbooking, occasionally even drawing & painting)
- striving for simplicity
- taking the “scenic route” instead of highways (even through bad parts of the city)
- the way old wood smells in the sunlight
