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Re: Things I like
« Reply #180 on: March 01, 2009, 05:58:00 PM »



Movies-For some reason, it's next to impossible for me to sit through movies on TV or on the big screne.  I can't count the times that I flat out slept through movies in the theatre.  I don't have TV now.  That's a good thing for when I did, I mostly flipped channels, but anyway, there have been a few movies in which almost every scene attracts my attention enough to stop the channel surfing and actually watch.  A few get me every time.  Legally Blonde with Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods is one of them.  I just love that movie.   

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Re: Things I like
« Reply #181 on: November 08, 2009, 05:18:53 AM »
Little Debbie Nutty Bars.  You know you can cut those little rascals into inch size bites and serve them at a get together as tasty little sweet treats - yummy.

Cheeze-It - The Pepper Jack flavored ones

Pretty blue eyes with not a hint of any other color in them.

Black/brown eyes that sparkele.

Green eyes with brown specks.

Cheap beer!

Good wine!

Ploughing into a mound of Caviar sprinkled over smashed boiled eggs and sour cream with a few capers, spread on water crackers, sans good manners.  Just eat and enjoy as casually as you would baked beans at a barbecue!


a bag of boiled/bald depending on where you're from, salty, pepper hot peanuts with a bag of Scuppernong grapes and a Coca Cola
driving down I-95 listening to the Eagles on the way to see my grandchildren.


Transparent people who were nurtured to be that way or folk like us who've learned in the school of hard knocks to be transparent, letting the chips fall where they may.


Reconciliation.


Recognizing an unpleasant feature of my personlity and changing it out for another feature that is full of integrity and which represents more fully who I am after my makeover (those seven years of hell).

Seeing my grandchildren flourish and recalling seeing signs of who they would become from the time they were in diapers.

Hearing my granchild say, Oh grandma, you were right when you told me that my gift was _____________.   I'm glad I was tuned into them from toddlerhood.  What a blessing!

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Re: Things I like
« Reply #182 on: November 08, 2009, 08:27:49 AM »
Walking in a Japanese garden...feeding the giant koi...letting the sunshine warm me...

lunch at an outdoor cafe with people walking by...

a long drive to and from the city, talking and laughing and planning...

reading aloud for hours--better than TV!

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Re: Things I like
« Reply #183 on: November 08, 2009, 05:33:58 PM »
Just really being present in the moment with my children.

Rain or shine.

Night or day........

and Trader Joe's salt and vinegar potato chips with ketchup and milk.

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Re: Things I like
« Reply #184 on: April 03, 2010, 10:38:07 AM »
 



People who inspire me to be a better person by their actions, words and deeds.

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Re: Things I like
« Reply #185 on: April 03, 2010, 07:44:28 PM »
Being completely caught in the moment, moving out of my thoughts, being moved by an external agency.

Paying attention and being paid attention. Haha. Being an attention-seeker  8)

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Re: Things I like
« Reply #186 on: April 04, 2010, 10:56:41 AM »
the first intense red tulip from my yard each spring
in a little hand-blown bulgy blue vase, w/an air bubble
it opens slowly and shazam, a deep black and gold center
eye-popping contrast

nature is so generous

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Re: Things I like
« Reply #187 on: May 03, 2010, 01:34:49 AM »





I like discussions that consist of more than the exchange of cliches. 

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Re: Things I like
« Reply #188 on: May 03, 2010, 03:10:52 AM »
I like that my sister was told about my daughter, by my daughter, before sister arrived, so very little had to be said: that both of us kept it to ourselves until I mentioned it and then I brought the topic to an end.
"The joy of love lasts such a short time, but the pain of love lasts one's whole life"

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Re: Things I like
« Reply #189 on: May 03, 2010, 09:06:47 AM »
Being out of doors when a storm's approaching.

I love the look and sound of the forest when the wind's up.

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Re: Things I like
« Reply #190 on: May 08, 2010, 02:02:38 AM »
The Willow Tree sculptures.

Tall one is Welcoming Spirit, from my lawyer at Christmas, and...

Short one is Healing Angel from my therapist for my Birthday!

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Re: Things I like
« Reply #191 on: May 08, 2010, 05:25:50 PM »
Watching my 2 year old dance to John Denver's "Thank God I'm a Country Boy."  And also to hip-hop music, particuclarly; "Boom-Boom-Pow" by the Black Eyed Peas;

A glass of wine while watching the sunset over the valleys;

Cooking a nice meal for my husband and daughter;

Talking with my brother;

Reading poetry;

Remembering what it was like to hike the high Sierra's; and

New York City.






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Re: Things I like
« Reply #192 on: May 09, 2010, 12:07:11 AM »
Seeing new topography I've never seen before.
The chance to see the black dirt of the Upper Midwest, driving along back roads from Minneapolis to La Crosse to Madison. Stopping in a little norske cafe, buying pastries and a raffle. Finding open friendliness as a default, unlike the guarded East. Rain as lovely on the fields as the sunshine is.

Just a blessed chance to travel and encounter a whole bunch of wonderful strangers.

I like exploring, land and people. More than almost anything.

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Re: Things I like
« Reply #193 on: May 11, 2010, 06:32:01 PM »




Ahhh - I love a Rum Bloody Mary!


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Re: Things I like
« Reply #194 on: May 12, 2010, 06:26:50 AM »
Watching my child play the piano with gusto and feeling..... esp when she improvises.

A toasted english muffin, piled high with tukey, spinach, avocado and horseradish sauce.

A frosty cold beer mit lime.