Many thanks to Pearl at Humanyms for the Stylish Blogger Award. The meme says: “By accepting this award I’m to tell five of my favourite things and then pick five people to pass the award on to.â€
Five of my Favourite Things
1. Raspberries. I adore them. From the age of 10 to 15 I lived in a place where I could eat them right off the bushes in the back yard (for three weeks of the year, anyway), and there was nothing I liked better than an unlimited supply of fresh raspberries, still warm from the sun.
This, by the way, is what my incredibly romantic GC made me for Valentines Day:
Perfect Valentines Parfaits!
2. Birds. I love big murders of crows and migrating geese and nuthatches running headlong down tree trunks and pink-toed pigeons and cheery chickadees and any kind of flock doing any kind of aerobatics in the sky. I love birds.
3. The book I’m currently reading: Lullabies for Little Criminals, by Heather O’Neill. I’m savouring every single word and wish it would never end. I want desperately for it to have a happy ending.
4. My undiagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder. I love falling under the spell of a new hobby or interest and becoming obsessed and reading and learning everything I can about it.
5. Sinking into a writing project so completely that I lose all track of time and it almost writes itself. Re-writing. Editing. Building the perfect sentence out of mere words.
I’m only supposed to tell you about five of my favourite things, but suddenly my mind is being flooded with other contenders. The colour periwinkle, falling asleep with Duncan tucked into me, Kazoo laughing out loud, a cool breeze on a hot day, a hot shower on a cold day, finding a treasure at the thrift shop, babies, clotheslines, the twinkle in GC’s eye, garage sales, dreams about flying, finding something I thought I’d lost, doing something I’ve been procrastinating about…
Five more bloggers
Okay. So now I’m supposed to name five other bloggers who might reveal five things they like, and then, in turn, name five other bloggers. Etcetera.
1. Mudmama
2. The Elgin Street Irregulars
3. The Elgin Street Muse
4. Dave1949
5. Robin (he can post photos of his five things)
And a bonus one because I’m a rebel too, but not as much of a rebel as Pearl:
The New Zealand movies “Boy” and “Rain”.
Playing Mah Jongg and my newest addiction Bananagrams.
Running a weekly crossword competition for a group of very competitive men in their 80s. There is so much testosterone in the room.
Visiting the Moreton Bay Fig we planted when Stephen died
Reading the ongoing adventures of Tag Larkin and Anonymous Doug over at renalfailure.com
http://renalfailure.wordpress.com/
Now I’ll have to watch those films, learn those games and read that blog. I draw the line though at testosterone driven old men. How is the Moreton Bay Fig doing, anyway?
I have no idea what colour periwinkle is. I don’t even know what periwinkle is. I thought periwinkle was a cartoon character.
Tom, I take it you never had the big box of 64 crayons?
You know I’ve been afraid to pick up Little Criminals because I’m afraid of just that! Easier to read nonfiction than love characters so much I think of them as real.
It is better to have loved and lost….
(Read it Mudmama, you’ll love it.)
okay mine is up!
I love yours.
because of 3 sometimes I don’t finish books I love most. then they never have to end.
love the groove of 5 too.
thinking of some things you love is kinda contagious, isn’t it?
Really? You can put aside a book you love and never finish it just so you can make it last forever? Wow.
I love Heather O’Neill’s writing. She read her own work on ‘Wiretap’ and now I’m hooked.
Did you know that she lives with Jonathan Goldstein, the host of Wiretap? (I came across her in a similar way. I heard her read a story on This American Life about being in grade four with Jesus, and I immediately googled her to find out more.)
Now there’s a couple that would be great neighbors. I guess, until some of Jonathan’s friends(like Howard)showed up.