built for glory

Things I Love:
1. Fluffy snow
2. Babies (making them smile)
3. New magazines and IKEA catalogues
4. Tea when there's just the right amount of honey in it
5. The sound of an orchestra tuning
6. Road trips
7. New friends calling me Nomes for the first time
8. Good conversations lasting until the wee hours
9. Making my mother laugh
10. In-tune grand pianos
11. Yearbooks
12. Skies teeming with stars
13. Chocolate
14. Living downtown
15. Sleepovers with my sister
16. City lights at night
17. The three-fold Amen... when sung with gusto
18. Surprise long-distance phone calls
19. Taking off in an airplane
20. Dancing
21. Dressing up
22. Old movies
23. Playing "Guess the Composer" with my dad
24. Sporadically using felicitous words
25. Getting mail
26. The Lord's Supper
27. Giving backrubs
28. The smell of laundry after it's been drying in the breeze
29. Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture... but mostly the first 12 minutes of it
30. Candles
31. The grand pas-de-deux in The Nutcracker
32. Reading The Princess Bride to anyone willing to be enchanted
33. Eating leftover birthday cake for breakfast
34. Hugs
35. Unusual compliments
36. Riding my '78 Raleigh Superbe
37. Lip gloss
38. Throwing parties
39. Sharpie markers
40. Getting pictures developed
41. Standing ovations
42. Walking barefoot on a beach, right where the waves meet the shore
43. Being invited for dinner
44. Soggy breakfast cereal
45. The sound of a double bass... and a cello... and a clarinet
46. Donald O'Connor's hilarious "Make 'Em Laugh" from Singin' In the Rain
47. Mini-epiphanies when reading the Bible
48. Puddles
49. Hearing how far we've come
50. Being inspired by the challenge of how far we have to go

I keep thinking of more, but I think 50 is plenty for one weekend.