Cathy Bell
I like:
rocksbirds
the Cowboy Junkies song "Rock and Bird"
just about every song Richard Shindell has ever recorded
Mahler's First Symphony
classical mythology
books, particularly: Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley, Underground by David Macaulay, The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen, Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez, The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon, Memory & Dream by Charles de Lint, The Dark Is Rising books by Susan Cooper, and Bellwether by Connie Willis
words, including: gumption, bewildered, ensorcelled, untrammelled, peripatetic, sennight, nest, fiery, vug, quirk, humuhumunukunukuapua'a, whimsy, duck, loony
"No, Maggie. Not Aztec, Olmec. [slowly] Ol-mec."
President Josiah K. Bartlet
Streets of San Francisco with Michael Douglas
fountain pens
corsets
mythical beasts
bicycles as a means of everyday transportation
the idea of car-free cities
wilderness
thunderstorms
Paphiopedilum orchids
California native plants, except poison oak
the fact that I don't seem to be allergic to poison oak
Burma Super Star's tea leaf salad
Arizmendi Bakery's oat scones
