listing 100

Can you list 100 things you like?

How about LOVE?

I dare you to try.

I am in the Salt Lake City airport right now.  Instead of focussing on the four hours I have for a layover here, I am going to start cracking away at this list.

A lot of you know that I reside in the midwest and what I refer to as the flattest place on earth.  I feel fortunate that my four hour layover involves snow tipped mountain ranges, that I can see from the airport windows.  So here goes...things I LOVE:

1. mountains in the summer

2. snow on mountains in the winter

3. great girlfriends from over 20 years ago 

(I am on my way to an annual reunion with them right now)

4. our elderly dog, Stella

5. our elderly cat, Chester

6. the winter white wool blanket on our bed

7. my husband, Peter, for sure

8. margaritas (having one now)

9. wool socks

10. intimate, support system of people to help me in LIFE

11. my backpack

12. my headphones

13. music on my iphone (JBM, Beth Orton, Sarah Siskind, Adam Ezra, Great Lake Swimmers, Dawes, Mumford and Sons, Brett Dennen, ALWAYS Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison, to name JUST a few)

14. being sentimental

15. my sweatpants

16. my joe's jeans (they are the closest thing to sweatpants!)

17. sunshine 

(beaming through the window of our aircraft all the way to SLC)

18. our president

19. the ocean (I will be there at 8 pm tonight!)

20. the mississippi river near my home

21. road trips (notice that flights aren't listed?)

22. silk long underwear (yeah, they're along for the trip)

23. nachos!  (having these SOON)

24. hard cover, old library books

25. smartwater (sorry for the branding here)

26. belly laughs (there are so many of these ahead this weekend)

27. national geographic magazine (again, branding...)

28. The Good Wife 

(yes, I have favorite tv shows- I set my phone alarm for them)

29. that my youngest sister lives less than one mile away

30. journals

31. flickr!

32. when participants really embrace my online classes

33. coffee!  (how is this #33?  I ADORE good black coffee)

34. my God jar (where I put all my worries and concerns)

35. lovely paper

36. my traveling windsor newton watercolor set (yep, it's along)

37. paint

38. making lists with sharpees (oops!  brand dropping again!)

39. great blue herons

40. CAMPING

41. Lake Superior

42. unsweetened chai tea with soy milk 

(after I've had enough coffee)

43. the number 5

44. most independent films (the Station Agent is brilliant just to name ONE - there are SO MANY more - I have a movie list some where around here...)

45. WARM (Women's Art Registry of Minnesota)

46. the potroast at the Modern

47. snoring dog or cat

48. talking with friends about LIFE visions

49. carmalita malts at the Bad Waitress (serious yum)

50. the rhythmic sound of waves (real ones)

51. The Grateful Dead! (yeah, they get their own number)

52. elephants

53. cows

54. old barns

55. stars in the sky 

(we could see them from our backyard last night)

56.feathers (I wonder how many I'll be bringing home after this weekend?)

57. rocks

58. my heronines: May Sarton, Georgia O'Keeffe, Brenda Ueland

59. kettle chips

60. mimosa
61. rabbits

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I am over half way there.

Watch for items 61-100 next week!