Things that bring me joy:

Vogelkop Bowerbird , Praying mantis , garage sales , the garden department , making forts , childhood friends , pulp , plaster , Blue morpho , fabric stores , stoneware n verdigris , tea w/ milk n honey , cooking on campfires , thrift stores , Pagodas , swimming in rocky rivers , restoring furniture , Scarabs , Spanish tiles , Luna moth , old beads , gem hunting , fall leaves , piles of snowflakes , fruit off of the tree , My charming , handsome , giving husband of ten years Nathan

Music

Cat Empire , Squirrel Nut Zippers , Shins , Mazzy Star , Frente , The Decemberists , Eels , Op Ivy , frou frou , Alfa blondie , Matisyahu , Feist , Kings of Convenience , Toots , Sundays , Belle n Seb , American football , Chemical Brothers , Goldfrap , Nick Drake , Bob Dylan , All Mighty Senators , Amos Lee , Ani Difranco , Pixies , Coldplay , Cranberrys , Beck , Cake , Manu Chao , Jem , Edie Brickell , yeah yeah yeahs , Tori , Fugazi , The Strokes , White Stripes , Modest Mouse , Iron and wine , The Cure , We are Scientists , Dead Milkmen , Breeders , Gorillaz , Prodigy.....

Movies

Chocolat , Big fish , Off the Map , Spirited Away , Shawshank Redemption , The Secret of Nimb , Fried Green Tomatoes , Smoke Signals , Like water for chocolate , Howels Walking Castle , Under the Tuscan Sun , Goonies , The Usual Suspects , MirrorMask , The Fountain , Fear and Loathing ....