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• Two lane highways
• That my birthday is in the summer
• Making hand crank ice cream
• My panniers
• Thunderstorms
• That I wore purple velvet knickers when I was 10
• Female jocks
• Lifting weights
• Sweet tea
• How a good drummer changes everything
• Playing raquetball
• The internet
• My insulated Klean Kanteen
• My loud ass 4 fingered whistle
• Creative collaborations
• Knowing friends for over 20 years
• A pork tenderloin sandwich from the Monroe County fair
• Passing as a dude sometimes
• Sharing a meal with friends
• A good hair cut
• Cool sunglasses

• The sound of crickets
• MTB’s garden
• Doodling
• Learning something new
• Blueberries
• Prince
• Building something
• Falling in love with a new song and then evangalizing the crap out of it to other people
• A good diner, like the Otis cafe or Dianes
• Manhattan
• The Painted Hills
• The Song of Solomon
• Listening to Kurt Vonnegut’s voice
• A British accent
• Playing my guitar
• Every time Becky’s come to visit me in Portland
• Campfire food

• Sticking with itness
• Fava beans
• Pet Sounds
• Building a camp fire
• Playing Boggle
• A tostada
• Writing music
• Splitting wood with an axe
• Imperfect heroes
• A close basketball game
• My space pen
• Being born in the 60s
• The county fair
• Lonesome Dove
• Trading
• Fireflies

1. Kindness
2. Reading a book out loud together
3. Night-time bike rides in the summer
4. Cooking
5. My cat
6. Taking a walk
7. Tomatoes from the garden
8. Laughing
9. Being a Hoosier
10. My dad’s best friend
11. That I moved across the country
12. Pussy willows
13. Hugs
14. Cooking
15. Macgyvering something
16. The song, Under Pressure
17. Watching dykes play softball
18. My summer camp
19. A good chef’s knife
20. Taking photos

My friend, Bart, has inspired me to come up with my own list. As well as my own experiment of posting a new list each day for next five days. So here goes day one.

• A hot shower
• Fizzy water
• Sun light
• My girlfriend
• The way I feel after a work out
• Good wool socks
• The Melissa Harris-Perry show
• Getting things done
• The idea of liminality
• My family
• Playing cards
• Camping
• My friends
• Solving problems
• Wood fired pizza
• Looking at Jackson Pollack paintings
• Making peach pie
• Being a butch
• Petting dogs
• 70’s R & B, especially Al Green