Sounds

• Dance Yrself Clean coming from Bekins Porch
• Buffalo calls
• Screen doors slamming, especially at Camp Rim Rock
• Hands slapping rock
• Crickets on an east coast summer night
• Thousands of voices singing together at a concert
• Tires crunching on gravel, alerting you that someone is home
• The guitar riff in Perth by Bon Iver
• Wonderful Everyday by Chance the Rapper
• Bagpipes
• Harmonicas, especially in empty rooms, or by campfires
• Z or Sari singing around complex
• The ocean
• Dad saying “hi sweetie pie!”
• Ukelele echoes in an elevator
• Thunder
• Dogs footsteps on wooden floors
• Windchimes
• Annie Ann’s dinner bell
• Horses whinnieing
• “We’re day camp, we’re awesome, we really like potatoes”
• The Beerkat at BB Camp, especially the Shabbat one when staff get so into some parts
• The silence of silent laughter
• A car starting when for whatever reason you think it might not
• The noise Sadie makes when she yawns and also wants attention
• People I like calling me V
• Callie saying (lisping) "Miss Monica"
• Nana saying "off like a herd of turtles"

Smells

• Palo Santo
• The coffee aisle
• Campfires/the wood stove
• Dirt when you’ve been in the desert for a few days
• Matches
• Horse feed
• Marijuana
• Darkrooms
• Dryer sheets
• Mrs Meyer’s Lavender soap
• Jesse’s pumpkin bread

Sights

• The Bay Bridge on the way to Rehoboth from DC
• A friend who I haven’t seen in a while coming in for a hug
• Those lights that change color so so slowly you don’t even notice until it’s already a different color
• Christmas lights in backyards
• A really good print after too many tries in the darkroom
• Cutting open a mango or some other fruit to see that it’s just the right color
• The lights dimming when you’ve been waiting for the band to come on
• WallE in blu ray
• Disposable camera photos
• Pugs
• Crater Lake
• Speckled sunlight coming in through the window
• A single digit pricetag at a thrift shop
• Colorful sporadic journals
• The flaming “shalom” sign at the end of a BB Camp session
• Fireflies
• Hella climbing stickers on the back of cars
• License plates from all over, all parked in one cool spot
• A well layered outfit
• Route 101 in the PNW
• Sadie’s head tilt
• Rob’s smile
• The floor of a collaging session in progress
• A well organized closet, bookshelf, altar
• The perfect swimming hole coming into view after searching

Restaurants

• Ed Debevic’s - Chicago
• The Rumor Mill - Ellicott City, MD
• Bean Hollow - Ellicott City, MD
• Retro Cafe - Rehoboth, DE
• Thai House - Redlands, CA
• Busboys & Poets - DC
• Los Agaves - Santa Barbara, CA
• Mark’s Kitchen - Takoma Park, MD
• Grub Food Van - Melbourne, Aus
• Burger Barn - Bishop, CA
• Sol Food - Marin, CA
• The Park Cafe - Salt Lake City
• Otis Cafe - Otis, OR
• The Wooden Spoon - Escondido, CA
• Nectarine Grove - Encinitas, CA
• The Taco Stand - Encinitas, CA
• Mariposa GF Bakery - Oakland, CA
• Green Tea Sushi - Asheville, NC
• BimBeriBon - Asheville, NC
• Fresh Pizza - Asheville, NC
• Bonfire BBQ - Asheville, NC
• White Duck Tacos - Asheville, NC

Coffeeshops

• Augie’s - Redlands, CA
• Olive Ave. Market - Redlands, CA
• 2pocket Fairtrade - Melbourne, Aus
• Sugarhouse Coffee - Salt Lake City
• Odd's Cafe - Asheville, NC
• Palate - Bend, OR

Tastes

• Bagels
• Coffee
• Dirty chai
• Becci’s perfect vegan gluten free desserts at BB Camp
• Nadia’s salads
• Nana’s rice
• Duck Donuts
• Miguel’s pizza
• Fresh corn on the cob
• Tomatoes picked right off the vine
• Huge meals after climbing
• Smores
• DSO’s, especially with peanut butter
• Hummus egg & spinach sandwiches from Java
• Rehoboth beach boardwalk corn dogs
• Reeses cups
• Pad Thai
• Annie Ann’s chocolate chip cookies, shrimp & pineapple curry, fried rice, breads, etc.
• Mark’s Kitchen milkshakes, especially while walking down the sidewalk with Geneva & wondering aloud how they taste like birthday candles
• Kangaroo steak & sticky date pudding from the Napier Hotel in Melbourne
• Christmas food
• Perfect clementines
• Sour Patch Kids from Alex during Wednesday practice
• New Year’s Fondue at the Curls
• Sweet potato tater tots from Smokey’s BBQ in NC
• TJ’s chocolate covered coconut macaroons
• Humboldt creamery ice cream
• Anything Jesse Paul makes, like baconion jam or butterscotch pot de creme
• Rabbit stew made by Lolo, Thanksgiving 2019
• The GF paleo banana bread Maya & I make

Feelings

• Most hugs in general, but especially when there’s lots of effort put in from them & myself
• Driving around super familiar or super unfamiliar roads & listening to the perfect music
• Plunging into water after hesitating to jump in for a while
• Ocean waves picking me up
• Taking off clothes at the end of the day
• Finally getting lotion or chapstick after needing it for a while
• Finally peeing after needing to for a while
• “Kisses” from babies
• Spinning around in water and running fingertips along the surface
• Hands and faces out of car windows
• Amazing catches while sport climbing
• My hand on a hold I didn’t think I’d reach
• Getting my hair washed at the salon
• Forehead kisses
• Behind the ear kisses
• Holding hands, especially while running down Jockey’s Ridge or crossing the street
• Running fingers through newly cut hair
• Crowd surfing
• That first moment of snuggling into bed
• The feeling in my stomach when the road dips
• Playing a song on guitar for the first time all the way through
• Crossing something off my to-do list
• Kids running up to me saying my name (often incorrectly)
• Freshly washed feet
• Feeling totally myself with buffalo
• Being 100% in an ecstatic dance, all there, with everyone, with yourself