100 Things I Love

I’ve been reading the book “The Right to Write” by Julia Cameron for a while now.  What’s taking me so long to finish it, you ask?  Oh, well, because every two to three pages, there’s a new writing exercise, and because (as I explained to my wonderful friend Sam who recommended the book to me) I was that kid in school who does the disussion questions at the end of the sections of her textbooks because they are there (and why else would they be there, unless you were supposed to do them??) I can’t seem to just skip them!

Most I’ve written out in my pen and paper journal, but this one I decided to share here.  From page 43:

Drama in our lives often keeps us from putting drama on the page.  Some drama happens and we lose our sense of scale in our emotional landscape.  When this happens, we need to reconnect to our emotional through line.  We need a sense of our “before, during and after life.”  This tool is a personal antidote for too much drama.

Set aside one half hour.  Settle yourself comfortably.  Number from one to a hundred.  Now list one hundred things you, personally, love.

 

Don’t get offended, anyone.  These are in no particular order, they just came into my head this way!

 

1. My husband
2. My animals
3. All animals, providing they are cute and furry.  Or feathery.  Or just sweet.  Or just any animals basically.
4. My parents
5. My friends
6. Good coffee
7. Good books
8. Good music
9. Hugs.  Especially sleepy, snuggly ones 
10. Kisses
11. Rainy days
12. Sleeping in
13. Travelling
14. Getting lost while travelling and ending up on an adventure
15. Writing
16. Blogging
17. Photography
18. Making pretty things
19. Pretty things other people have handmade
20. Snuggling in my bed with my husband and pets
21. Manicures in unusual colours/textures/styles
22. Pretty and pretty-smelling bath/body stuff
23. Uptown Funk and other songs that get me moving
24. Blog post comments and feedback – nothing brightens my day more
25. Sunflowers
26. Sunny days
27. Birdsong in the morning
28. Crickets in the evening
29. Fireflies
30. Front porches
31. Animal rescue videos
32. Strawberries
33. Home-grown tomatoes
34. Cooking for people I love
35. Real brewed iced sweet tea – southern style 
36. Chicago-style deep-dish pizza
37. Swimming
38. Beautiful swimming pools
39. Beautiful lakes for swimming
40. Cool pens for my journals
41. Cool journals
42. Colouring
43. Amazing markers and coloured pencils
44. Adult colouring books
45. Libraries
46. Bookstores
47. Out-of-the-way Coffee Shops
48. My iPhone
49. My iPad
50. Highways 
51. Trees – old trees.  Huge trees.  Hugging huge, old trees.
52. Folding warm laundry
53. That feeling when your kitchen is perfectly clean before you go to bed
54. Kitty cat headbutts
55. Cool dewy grass when you have bare feet
56. Thunderstorms
57. The colours of autumn leaves
58. Gardens – particularly English cottage style gardens
59. Deserted beaches
60. Yarn stores                                    
61. Scrapbooking stores
62. Art galleries
63. Christmas trees
64. Old stop-motion Christmas TV specials
65. Victorian architecture
66. Modern architecture
67. Log cabins
68. A-frame cabins
69. Meeting friends for coffee
70. Meeting friends for stitch’n’bitch time
71. Book Club
72. Writer’s Group
73. Dollhouses and miniatures
74. The Beatles 
75. Nina Simone
76. Billie Holiday
77. Baking bread
78. Baking all kinds of other goodies
79. The Princess Bride movie
80. Labyrinth (movie) 
81. Hoarfrost
82. Kitties who are obsessed with cuddling in the bathroom
83. Reading outside in the sunshine
84. Watching animal videos online (not just rescue videos!)
85. Making up songs to sing to my pets and husband
86. Snuggling stuffies
87. Making up my own words when other modes of language just won’t suffice
88. Hot chocolate with marshmallows
89. Churros
90. Making lists
91. Organizing things, especially with access to a label maker 
92. Alphabetizing things
93. People watching
94. Board games
95. Video games, especially with my husband
96. Anything Hello Kitty
97. Jigsaw puzzles
98. Amigurumi
99. Train trips
100. Road trips

 

This was a fun list to make, and reminded me of how I’ve gotten out of the habit of making gratitude posts.  If you make a list of 100 things you love, what would be on it?  Do you have 100 things?  More?

Celebrate what you love!