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one hundred things in the world I love

Many things may be familiar as this has been my general approach to this place. Creating the list as a quick and unedited morning exercise was inspired by Justin.

1. deerhunter (the band and the movie)

2. making pizzas

3. deerhoof’s offend Maggie album

4. jarritos tamarind soda

5. Buford highway farmers market

6. dry fried eggplant from tasy kabob

7. finn’s growing love of cooking

8. potluck dinners with homestyle Indian and Chinese food

9. the Chattahoochee national recreation area jones bridge location

10. library book sales

11. movies on vhs

12. k records

13. going through old photographs

14. running through the woods

15. posting to my tumblr

16. thrift store book aisles

17. my new pair of chuck taylors

18. my anansi tshirt

19. selling old stuff at garage sales

20. showing my daughters my favorite movies

21. making hollow books

22. altoids gum

23. letting the poplar limbs grow over the deck and eating meals in the shade

24. watching finn jump off the high dive for the first time

25. cast iron skillets

26. locally made tortillas

27. leftovers

28. owls in the daytime

29. putting up tents in the living room

30. rearranging bookshelves

31. first aid kit’s cover of white mountain peasant song by fleet foxes and particularly the video of them performing it in the woods

32. new composition books

33. using the countdown timer on my nerdy casio g-shock model g-8000 digital watch

34. peter and his three dogs big, little and tiny

35. hearing my daughters discuss the intricacies of The Edge Chronicles

36. putting together mix cds for my friends

37. the books of peter and iona opie but particularly Children’s Games in Street and Playground

38. magnifying glasses

39. finding my preadolescent coin collection

40. French press coffee

41. homemade popcorn

42. giant robot magazine

43. the gahuti trail

44. the explosion of mushrooms in the fall

45. free samples of cave aged gruyere at Harry’s market

46. training gopher guts to wake up the girls in the morning

47. playing junkyard frisbee golf in the street with my neighbors

48. bittorent and LOST without commercials

49. fulton county free Saturday at the high museum

50. the abstrakt bild series by Gerhard richter

51. accepting unavoidable discomfort with grace

52. bug jars

53. the books and zines that Fallie makes for me

54. anticipating the Infinite Summer project and the prospect of deliberately reading infinite jest in parallel with many others

55. Brasyl by Ian McDonald

56. the sack and sausage mix tape by j adam

57. old crow bourbon whiskey

58. sambal oelek

59. the size and heft of the jfk half dollar coin

60. writing letters of gratitude and reconnection and reconciliation to my friends

61. the yes game

62. driving through the mountains in a convertible

63. the smoky mountains, swimming, camping, hiking

64. lake of fire by the meat puppets

65. finding running shirts from old recreation league teams at the thrift store

66. golden lion tamarinds at the zoo

67. squished pennies

68. completing my fourth viewing of the farscape series with floyd

69. keeping all of the shades drawn in the house to preserve the cool and the subdued lighting that this produces

70. finding odd chunks of metal and parts of machines on the side of the road

71. the water bladder backpack I received for Christmas

72. the leviathan album by mastodon

73. scanning three dimensional objects on my cheap flatbed scanner

74. the unexpected pleasures of meeting like minds and kind souls on the internet

75. optimism

76. mind maps

77. short naps like a strong cup of coffee

78. long naps like a gateway to a different world

79. peeling and slicing carrots

80. wrestling with my daughters and feeling how strong they are growing

81. rereading, rewatching, reexperiencing, reevaluating

82. led flashlights

83. cold water

84. index cards

85. pushups

86. bits of glass polished by the wind and the sand and the waves and the current and the heat from an atomic weapon

87. motor boat by sweetwater

88. In Bruges, the film

89. Rivers and Tides and Andy Goldsworthy

90. sourwood honey

91. glass jars filled with little bits of things

92. finn’s fake british accent

93. counting in dozens

94. smashing pumpkins (literally, not the band)

95. the lulling drone of a box fan

96. folding origami octopi

97. listening

98. taking showers with my wife

99. my little coolpix camera and the way it fits in my pocket

100. that matter-of-fact “you are not going to believe the crazy shit I am about to tell you but it is totally true” tone of voice my girls get when they are about to tell me their latest discoveries about our odd world