100 Things to Love About Life

I ushered for a one-man show on October 27, and although I didn't think it was great, one episode in the monologue fascinated me: the writer/performer (Rick Reynolds) rattled off a list of 100 things he appreciated about life. So it took me a week or so of pondering to attempt to do the same, and here is my list (in alphabetical order) of 100 things to remember about life's goodness (and it's not complete, nor is it ranked - i.e., these are not my top 100 favorite things).

1. Airplanes
2. Apple Pie
3. Autographs
4. "BKLYN" (the musical)
5. Books
6. Bread Pudding
7. Broadway!
8. Brunch
9. Bubble Baths
10. Cabaret Shows
11. Cards
12. Cashmere
13. CDs
14. Concerts
15. Cooking
16. Curry
17. Dancing
18. Daytrips
19. Dolphins
20. Dunkin' Donuts (coffee and donuts)
21. Ears
22. Earth
23. Eggs
24. Eggrolls
25. Family
26. Fireplaces
27. Friends
28. Fruit
29. Genetics
30. Gentlemen
31. Geography
32. Handwritten mail
33. Hugs
34. Humor
35. Ibuprofen
36. Ice Cream (and Ice Cream Cake!)
37. Idioms
38. Jackets
39. Jacuzzi hot tubs
40. Journals
41. Juice
42. Keys
43. Kim Chee
44. Kindness
45. Kisses
46. Kites
47. Laughter
48. LEGO
49. Lighthouses
50. Mac and Cheese
51. Mail
52. Museums
53. Music
54. Myths and Mythology
55. New York (and New Yorkers), especially in the winter/during Christmas
56. Noodles
57. Notebooks
58. Oranges
59. Origami
60. Overtures
61. Photographs
62. Pop-Up Books
63. Pumpkin donuts (see also D for "Dunkin' Donuts")
64. Quiet afternoon naps
65. Quinoa
66. Qorn
67. Rain (see also Q for "Quiet afternoon naps," preferably inside when it's raining outside)
68. "RENT" (the musical)
69. Scrabble
70. Sharks
71. Spa treatments
72. Sunsets (and Sunrises)
73. "Sweater weather"
74. Symphonies
75. Technology
76. Thunderstorms (see also R for "Rain")
77. Times Square (see also B for "Broadway" and N for "New York")
78. Tofu (and Tofurkey)
79. Umbrellas
80. Urban Legends
81. Valentines
82. Vegetarian restaurants
83. Vivaldi
84. Volunteering
85. Warm towels or Warm sheets
86. Watermelon (on a hot sunny day)
87. Whales
88. "Wicked" (the musical)
89. Wine
90. Winter
91. Wood floors
92. "Xanadu" (the musical)
93. "The X Files"
94. X-Rays
95. "Yachts" (and sailboats)
96. Yawns
97. Yiddish
98.Yin and Yang
99. Zeitgeist
100. Zoology

What would be on your list?