sunlight, turning leaves, free speech, warm beds, peppermint tea, salman rushdie, iPods, ivy plants, fuzzy socks, good pens, real ink, bells, voices raised in song, dimples, wings, clouds, nonsense languages, brancusi, mucha, fingerpaint, hot showers, hard rain, clean towels, vitamin c, gary larsen, garlic, rose is rose, ani, dave, pablo, bach, big sur, artichokes, apples, yawns, freckles, activism, warm sweaters, strong arms, sunsets, hermit crabs, dandelions, inside jokes, crooked smiles, old friends, sex, spaghetti, thesauri, bear hugs, down comforters, wyoming, good bread, mud, crazy family members, and, really, life in general.