Sight

• Bold mountainsides.
• Oil on canvas.
• Patterned material.
• Children- their smiles and their expressions.
• The piercing sapphire color of the Mediterranean Sea.
• Renaissance culture.
• Strong architecture- especially when marble or brick.
• Wood grain- dark or light, doesn't matter.
• Dusty roads.
• Flora-painted side-streets.
• Splattered ink.
• Busy, busy, busy cities filled with people and culture.
• Picket-fences.
• Hedges.
• Flowing dresses and tall grass blades.

Sound

• Piano coupled by rain droplets.
• Thick accents- of any kind.
• Soft, gentle tones of voice- the lulling sound of a secret.
• Balalaika and sitar.
• The sound of someone's car arriving home, crunching the tires against the gravel.
• The bray of sighs, heartbeats and ocean waves, preferably all at once.
• Rain on cobblestone.
• The wet slush of your bare feet in a puddle.
• Night-time humming.
• Lawnmowers active outside the window.
• Heels on marble.
• The sound of scrunching a material such as cotton into your hands.

Smell

• Newly-dazed grass in the summertime.
• A rich, enticing meal when your stomach is grumbling for it.
• The smell of a loved one stained on your clothes or in the air after they have left.
• Fresh morning break.
• Gasoline or chlorine.
• The smell of soap and skin right after a shower.
• Fresh-out-of-the-wash laundry.
• A new book.

Touch

• Material clenched in your hands in a tuft so as to scrunch it in a comforting fashion.
• Skin, soft against skin.
• The pages of your favorite book as they slit your finger just as tad after an anxious page turn.
• Cool, cool water, just a finger dipped in.
• Bare feet in grass.
• Bare feet on stone.
• Bare feet against bare feet.
• The wind against your face, kissing it up gently.
• A hug that almost dislocates your spine.
• A baby's head against your shoulder.

Taste

• Hearty pastas, especially penne a la vodka.
• Toast with olive spread or jam.
• Cannolis and tiramisu.
• Baked beans and mashed potatoes.
• Soft lips.
• Cool water.