Things YOU love to love
My ‘love what you love’ post a few days ago has been getting great suggestions and ideas for loving what YOU love. I wanted to share some with you. As well as a fun pic of Juliette Lewis playing drums. Because it’s Friday.
The very amusing Adam Cordner said “I LOVE Comics and the Delorean(car) from Back To The Future! There, I said it. I’m going to find a Delorean and restore it to the film standard, then when I stop at the traffic lights I’ll scream at people “what year is this!”
Mel shared: tanned feet, camping sans luxury under big trees, boogie boarding…the kind u did when u were 10 resulting in lots of sand in the gusset of ur cosies, French romantic comedies, riding fast down hills with the wind in my hair, swishy dresses, second hand everything, dancing by myself, men with soul….
Ella‘s list included “napping with my head at the foot of my bed. Catching the train in the middle of the day, when it’s quiet, through the city and watching the skyscrapers slide past. The apple and peanut butter combination!”
I loved that Lisa‘s list centred mostly around food! ” Salted caramels. Baths with salts, bubbles, candles, music, and wine. Baking for hours on a Saturday afternoon. French restaurants and French food. Creme brulee. Eating dessert before dinner. Going to the movies on my own, in the middle of the day, on a weekday. Cocktails and dancing with my best girlfriends. Drinking a cup of really good coffee with a paper in front of me and nothing but time to enjoy both.”
Nicole chose “The beach in winter. Surfing while the sun is rising. Second-hand book shopping. Crushing spices in my mortar and pestle. Drinking tea (tea pot and cozy a must!) with my best mate. We both have particular tea cups for ourselves and each other at each of our houses.”
Sarah, from San Francisco, who has a gorgeous blog here, said “I love getting up before the sun, even on weekends. People think I’m insane, but I really don’t care. The people you pass when you’re out running at six are entirely different than those at 9. They say hi to you; you “get” each other; you know they appreciate these stolen silent moments as much as you do. I love the exact moment the sun comes up. It’s so beautiful, I want to cry. I want to share it with the entire world, so I reach my arms out and close my eyes and just breathe.”
Kallie shared “I love studying to be a naturopath, I love cooking good clean sustainable food and sharing it with people and most of all I love sharing a human connection with my emotions as I know a lot of wisdom, strength and growth comes from that and I will be able to help those around me.”
Hanna loves ”my kid, more and more as she gets older. I love her sense of humour. Reading Agatha Christie in a hot bath in the day while it’s raining outside – or sleeping in the day when it’s raining. Swimming naked, especially in the sea, wearing only goggles and staying under for as long as I can.
Dani loves to love “caring passionately about mental health, not just that of people with a clinically diagnosed mental illness” but all of us. Words, reading, and writing (and oxford commas!) Driving to the headland near my place to watch thunderstorms on summer nights (bonus points if I get to take a friend and some pizza). Being who I am and not feeling like I “should” be anything different”.
Elizabeth shared: “Taking baths late at night just for the heat, not to get clean. Spooning with my dog in bed on weekend mornings. Staying home on weekdays. Walking in the woods with my puppy as guide. One-on-one lunches with girlfriends.”
Leah loves “sitting in the sun, horse riding across open paddocks where you can just let them run and go along for the ride, breakfast and sudoku in bed, sleepy, warm, floppy-armed cuddles from my half awake man in the morning, talking to animals and my car, sitting on damp grass at night and watching the sky”
Alex enjoys “Making a patient’s bed – i just love the feeling of the crisp starchy clean sheets and i love making the patient really comfortable when they’re back in it, fluffing up the pillows and putting one between their legs, on their side, etc. pillows are not just for heads.”
Paul says “I love being a nerd”.
Mia listed – “making any kind of fort, be it out of boxes, or a big doona and pillow fort from which to sit and read, or nap, or watch sci-fi. Or do nothing! On that note… I love sci fi. I love being nerdy. I love pretending to be a pirate when Im alone. I love to disconnect. I secretly make up engagements so people wont be offended that I want to stay home alone. To do absolutely nothing”.
Angela said “I love watching clouds move through the sky and deciding what the shapes are. And also deciding that each shape is symbolic of what I need/want in my life”.
And fabulous zany Sian – “Having conversations with my dog about big life decisions, eating cereal or ice-cream for dinner when I’m feeling lazy, sleeping with my childhood teddy when I’m feeling low, standing in the pouring rain, smuggling muskticks into my jacket and sneaking them to my team mates when our coach tries to punish us with laps around the field, as an atheist my most shameful and secret love is watching 7th heaven, I just can’t get enough of their wholesome Christian values. I can’t explain it!
Thanks for sharing those Sarah, got some giggles, oohs, ahhs and mms of agreement from me.
I love a good cup of coffee in the monrings, the weather in my city Brisbane when it creeps into winter, the morning sun on my back, laying under a tree absorbing the energy from the earth undernearth and soaking up the beauty of the sky and branches above, laughing with my girlfriends or anyone really, enjoying a bottle of good red wine with a friend or a couple of glasses on my own. Having been a vego for so long and returning to omnivorous ways I loved the crispy bacon my brother cooked for the family brunch last Sunday, my first taste of the stuff in YEARS! Taking myself on dates, sillyness, dark chocolate, being back in the beautiful land of AUs after spending the year in France and spending time with friends and family again who I missed. Paris and the quirks of the French, where I learned that my quirky ways are what makes me unique and not to hide them!
Phew and I could go on…I love alot!
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Sarah, I think YOU have a gorgeous blog here. It’s truly somewhere I come to escape, do some highly informative reading, some leisurely perusing, and to snag a good dose of humor. Thanks for the endless inspiration, and especially for the shout!
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Now all this definitely should be a chapter in your book!
Dare I say even a book topic in itself. Something with a portrait photo – Annie Leibovitz style – on one page with the other page detailing what this person loves. A book about people’s passions, their loves & how they love what they love.
Not in a freak show way where you have pictures of some old guy in gumboots who’s been collecting butterfly wings for 20 years in his shed (though if presented right it could work). Not a book on the weird, just the wonderful.
What I got from that post was (1) amazing ideas I could try that I would never have thought of and (2) a wondefully warm feeling/understanding of how we really are all the same, and we all really want the same things (peace, contentment, joy, love, blah, blah).
Just a thought.
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That’s an awesome list!! I had a huge laugh at some of the answers… I love how we all seem to have our own unique weirdness, which isnt really all that weird I guess. The eccentricity and whimsy in the answers made me smile in a “we’re all in this together” kind of way. The answers that expressed the joy of caring for others (especially Alex!) made me feel all soft and squishy inside. Beautiful list Sarah, thanks ever so much!!
xx
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Loving this list of “things I love” so I’m making my own!
I love…. being excited about coming home to my man at the end of each day, laying on the daybed on Sunday mornings, I love ladybugs, the linger of a strangers perfume as I get on the lift in the mornings, gardening, laughing soo much that my belly hurts, Sav B dates with my best girls, wasabi peas & the occasional pea that will make your eyes & nose run! I love alone time, cooking up a storm for friends & people watching!!
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Geez. I am the same with 7th Heaven.
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i love when fresh legs day (i.e. freshly waxed legs) coincides with clean sheets day.
Bliss
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I love music…it’s my air, just like breathing I couldn’t live without it…I love old music, because it has soul and feels authentic…I fell in love with blues music because it’s real and imperfect…and the honesty of it all makes me sad and happy at the same time…
There’s this one song that I love by Belton Sutherland, no one really knows who he is, Alan Lomax filmed him for The Land Where The Blues Began and that was that…and because I don’t know who he is and that performance will probably be the only one I hear him play makes me love it more…because it’s a fragment that will just stay a fragment…not sure if that makes sense, but this song won’t leave me so I just had to share even if it doesn’t make sense
http://featheredlove.com/2011/03/singing-the-blues-away/
I love the songs I get obsessed with…I love dancing by myself to them, I love being happy and smiling and dancing in the street
I love the details of nothingness…the things that don’t really matter and how some things click and fall together…
I love the way poetry I read years ago pops up in my mind…I love the way Allen Ginsberg’s Howl makes me think of howling or makes me want to howl at the moon or how I want to shout Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy into the ether…just how I want to pay tribute and share my love…
How blimps of poetry can drive me into endless inspiration…
I love how fresh country air makes me care-free and happy and causes me to giggle and be silly…
I love the way the kids I love and babysit giggle and smile…and how the little things in life…the details make it all worth it, because that’s really what it is all about…
I love so many things…but most of all I love that I feel love for them
Love, Jules
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Reading this blog just made my day.. as I sit at work in the pouring rain with a head full of flu.. thank you xx Just divine
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