• Beach combing, seaglass and pretty pebbles
  • Skipping stones
  • Bare feet in the summer time
  • Matryoshka dolls
  • Receiving postcards
  • Receiving any hand adressed mail.
  • Puns
  • Books' little gems-- beautifully composed phrases and sentences
  • Scar stories
  • Cobblestone
  • 50s dresses
  • Hammocks
  • Pigtails
  • Crossword puzzles
  • Long-distance trains
  • Standing barefoot in mud
  • National parks
  • Beating the system
  • Observing
  • Zip lines
  • Exploring
  • Reading
  • The smell of old books .Barnes and Nobles, too.
  • Costumes
  • State-quarter surprises
  • Coin jars
  • Cartoons
  • Legos
  • Hand holding, dancing fingers
  • The occasional long car-ride
  • Thrifting
  • Neat handwriting (I wish was mine)
  • Children, especially when they're all bundled up
  • Stargazing (cool michigan summers from heat-radiating tennis courts)
  • Honey Bunnie Smoothies
  • Organizing
  • Collections aranged in aesthetic ways, especially of little vintage treasures (keys, buttons, plates, etc.)
  • Libraries
  • old books with yellowed pages
  • True love stories
  • Accents
  • Child prodigies
  • Trampolines
  • Cracking knuckles
  • Moisturizing mah skin
  • Thesauruses
  • Family dinners
  • Plane-spotting
  • Wishing on eyelashes
  • Separation of church and state
  • Making up words
  • Dreams (yes, I know they just bursts of neuron-action; still, it's fun to pretend...)
  • Multi-colored lights of O'Hare
  • Others' laughs
  • Kayaking
  • Making lists
  • Sticky-outty ears
  • cities' nooks
  • Sleeping in
  • Wind chimes
  • Spring-summer sun showers
  • Stream of conciousness writing
  • Stretching
  • Make-believe
  • Camping
  • Aerial views
  • Trivia
  • Home-made swings
  • Claymation
  • Old National Geographics
  • Time-lapse photography
  • Peculiarities
  • Irony
  • Multi-linguality
  • Stringing strands (beading)
  • Miniatures
  • Doll houses
  • Monocles
  • Doodles
  • Crochet graffiti spottings
  • Whirling dervishes
  • Window shopping
  • Secrets
  • Etymology
  • Vintage jewelry
  • Bouldering, rock climbing
  • World records-- e.g. the largest recorded snowflake
  • Time travel
  • 24 hour businesses
  • Mood lighting
  • Spiral staircases (like the MCA's)
  • Wood floors
  • Houses full of home-cooking smells and music
  • Typewriters
  • Re-fashioned clothing and jewlery
  • Good posture
  • The Slow Movement
  • Wit
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Coincidences
  • Bicycles with baskets and streamers
  • Tandem bicycles
  • Tall bikes
  • Art bikes-- like this and this
  • Re-appearing fogged-window drawings
  • Clean sheets, freshly-made bed
  • New socks
  • Coming home to my very own bed
  • Pig Latin
  • Manners
  • Non-profit organizations
  • Geneaology
  • Smooth writing pens
  • Public transportation
  • Maps, especially old ones
  • Comfortable silence
  • Catching a whiff of a good smelling passerby
  • Free refills
  • Free anything
  • Cardigans
  • Tokens of friendship
  • Glass bottom boats
  • Good whistlers
  • Hide-outs, secret meeting spots
  • Picnics
  • Vacuuming (the satisfying before-and-after)
  • Roller coasters
  • Adrenaline rushes
  • Calligraphy
  • Calligraphy pens
  • Wax seals
  • Snuff boxes
  • Well-traveled objects, heirlooms (they have stories)
  • Well-traveled trunks
  • Freckles
  • Lockets
  • Fleece blankets
  • Crazy straws
  • Crepes
  • Shadow boxes
  • Fixer-uppers
  • Flannel pajamas
  • Castles
  • Untying knots
  • Treasure chests
  • Time capsules
  • Cozying up
  • Street musicians
  • Motorcycle sidecars
  • Uniquely colored cars
  • Vespas
  • Rotary phones
  • Geodes
  • Moss
  • Globes
  • Vintage fabrics
  • Antique botany prints
  • Scientific illustrations
  • Old books and articles regarding outdated theories
  • Things that role off the tounge
  • Alliteration
  • Mocking the corporate world
  • Art teachers
  • Boy-cut underwear
  • Makin art in groups with materials and no plans
  • Group brainstorms for ideas that will probably never be realized
  • Door knockers
  • Brightly-colored doors
  • Intricate door knobs
  • Scavenger hunts
  • Rope swings
  • Reading out loud to Theo
  • Being read to
  • Puzzles
  • Playing cards (the verb and noun)
  • Pocket-knives
  • PiƱatas
  • Obstacle courses
  • Makin' up games
  • stealth-assignments/challenges
  • Parkour and free running
  • Refrigerator magnets
  • Making remarks in conversation (that make sense in the context of the conversation, of course) that allude to something else and knowing that select people understood the allusion
  • Film festivals
  • Foreign films
  • Whoa! : foreign film festivals
  • Films with superior art direction and/or fanciful clothing
  • Snuggles/cuddles with the Adorable Girl Club
  • Convertible gloves
  • DIY
  • Little notebooks
  • Colorful felt-tipped pens
  • Paint brushes with soft bristles
  • Thermal shirts
  • Stomach butterflies
  • Haiku writing
  • New York Times' Home and Garden slide shows
dec 25 2008 ∞
may 4 2010 +