Top Ten

Turkish delight

jasmine pearl tea

eyewear

outdoor fruit and vegetable markets

mushrooms

baking bread

being in my body

ukulele lessons 

pockets

giving books I love to people I think might love them too

Rereading The Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter after more than 35 years, a book my grandmother gave to me

deserted diners

grandma Kelley's rice casserole

Le Mans Hall

midwives

Spencer Tunick

Budapesti Közkincs Könyvtár

clowns

David Byrne’s American Utopia

democracy

church bells

Gellért Fürdő

African chicken and peanut soup from the New England Soup Factory

martini with blue cheese stuffed olives

1059 Riverside

wonderland

gesztenyepüré

Greek yogurt with honey, in Greece

Book Club

Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins

Rome

Batman underwear for grownup women

Indigo Girls

dandelions

sleep

Warren Dunes State Park

The Overstory by Richard Powers

french fries

Ted Kooser

clean pressed sheets

walking by a lilac bush in bloom

holding hands

playgrounds

NPR

hard wood floors

handmade afghans

coffee

Jeune Homme Nu Assis au Bord de la Mer, by Jean- Hippolyte Flandrin

marching bands

HONK! festival of activist street bands

my clever, funny friend

roasted chestnuts

Duchess Goldblatt 

Asian Monday

Miss Mary, my terrible dog

birdie sing in the tree, woo woo woo, wee wee wee, I love you and you love me

Henszlmann Imre utca, 5

cuckoo clocks

handwritten letters

potluck dinners

Thai massage

Amanda Palmer

marathons, watching them

hiking, with the right shoes

public schools

#metoo

neighbors

pie crust

yellow roses

Walden Pond

Pete Buttigieg

giving away my homemade jams

kisses

ginger

running at my own pace

truth