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- line dried sheets
- fireworks
- Wreck Beach
- my brother
- Miss Margot
- Keith
- Kate
- my parents
- Dorothy Dunnett
- electricity
- running water
- indoor plumbing
- pines
- the internet
- the nice cool tiles on the kitchen floor
- solid wood furniture
- the colour of the sky late in the evening in the summer
- thunderstorms
- knowing John
- Leo giving me my first guitar
- Red Deer Lodge
- Eddie and Gizmo
- Enzyme soak for when the cats have ‘accidents’
- my decade plus at ‘the big X’
- Granny
- the Inuit hunters mom made
- the art work “Suspended Animation”
- being able to take a year off
- chocolate
- painkillers
- Paul
- my landpeers
- Peggy and Tom
- paper
- a comfy place to sleep
- musical instruments
- air conditioning
- space exploration
- Hubble
- David Attenborough
- Unitarianism
- my gift for music
- my senses
- Mrs. Dauphinee
- BC Medical Services Plan
- Mike
- convertibles
- SF and Fantasy
- plesiosaurs
- Doug and L.E.
- back decks
- feeling safe
- wheat
- cheese
- eggs
- Santa Cruz Organic soda
- Robof9
- Patricia
- being able to express myself in writing
- having an antiquarian as an ancestor
- Doug Bain
- filk
- cinnamon
- coffee
- blackberry jelly
- Mel Blanc
- driftwood
- orcas
- airplanes
- roses
- snow
- the aurora
- knowing I have a large circle of friends and family who care about me and show it
- time lapse photography
- mashups
- anarchism
- the meditations of Marcus Aurelius (and all the Stoics, really)
- Patrick O’Brian
- Robot Chicken
- Paris
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- my MacBook
- a good, strong immune system
- Gilgamesh
- my bike
- Vancouver’s astounding cuisine
- Stanley Park
- Burns Bog
- Cathedral Grove
- Hot Springs Cove
- Gabriola
- Niagara Falls
- my Grampa writing down his life history and me finding out he worked in a chocolate factory
- velvet
- leather
- quilts that other people made
- shooting
- horses
- Bounce
- rosemary