• Olives on the table at all times and ready for snacking
  • Home-made bread and butter every day (or at least every few days)
  • A four poster bed with a canopy
  • Food growing in my garden--on plants and trees both
  • Good weather
  • A nice bottle of wine always available
  • Enough money that I don't have to worry
  • A whole room just for the books
  • Roses
  • Music all the time in all sorts of different ways
  • Places to go every evening if I want to
  • Home made cheese
  • Cats
  • Tea and pastries in the morning
  • Good sleep every night
  • Meetings with friends in the evenings to talk about writing and to support each other
  • Lots of home-cooked food
  • Chunky jewelry and no reason not to wear it
  • Love, all kinds
  • Modest fame (speaking for schools, communities, writing groups; book signings; special guests at conferences; but still able to just be myself in my own neighborhood)
  • Lots of light
  • Places to sleep in every room in the house
  • World travel, even on a whim
  • Fulfilment
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