A Few Of My Favorite Things

• Listening to the rain fall on my roof while I sleep.
• My husband, who finds new ways every day to show me he loves me.
• Ella Fitzgerald while I clean (its not the cleaning I love, but the music makes it bearable).
• My polka-dot umbrella...and the rain that lets me use it.
• The ground under a tree in the Autumn when the fallen leaves look like a colorfully painted shadow on the grass.
• White Peppermint Mochas....delicious.
• The french press I just discovered in my kitchen, where has it been hiding all these months.
• Discovering new favorite places in my new favorite city of Olympia.
• My family spread across the country. NC, LA, San Francisco, WA, Idaho. There is nothing better than the amazing times we get to all be together in the same place.
• My mailbox, it is like Christmas morning 6 days out of the week. I turn my key in the lock while I anticipate the surprises that might be inside - some days the surprise turns out to be bills, which ruins the fun for a moment until I discover a note from home or a Newsweek magazine.
• Nature. I feel like I am discovering it all over again now that I've left the concrete jungle of LA after 5 years.
• The library. Have you ever realized just how many books are out there? I could find a new favorite book every week for the rest of my life and never run out of options.
• The students God lets me minister to at work. My heart breaks over their stories on a daily basis. I have never more fully realized the extent of God's love for the world than when I get to know his children at The YC.