| My Favorite Things |
Everybody has favorite things. A favorite thing is what brings you pleasure in one form or another. We spend too much time hearing about what's wrong with the world. This page is about the good things that, if I were to stop to think about it, are what brings me little bits of happiness ...my favorites:
| Love | Music | Classic Movies |
Writers |
| Thunderstorms on the Ocean | Dachshunds and other cuties | NFL Football |
Southern accents |
| Facials | Twilight | Puzzle/ Word Games |
Tennis |
| Waterslides | Red Wine | Quotations |
Laughing loudly ( with other loud laughers) |
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love |
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seems to me I discovered what 'I love you' really means. It means I put you
and your interests and your comfort ahead of my own interests and my own
comfort because I love you. What does this mean? I love you. What does this mean? Think. We use this expression very carelessly. LOVE has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get-- only with what you are expecting to give -- which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and you cannot help giving. If you are very lucky, you may be loved back. That is delicious but it does not necessarily happen." -Katharine Hepburn "Me -Stories of my Life" |
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music |
You are listening to one of my favorite compositions... "Plaisir d'Amour" written in the 18th century by an Italian composer named Giovanni Battista Martini.
Top Ten Favorite Songs ( Actually it's impossible to limit my favorite to ten, but for the sake of expediency...)
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A Case Of You | by Joni Mitchell |
| 2 | Down By The Salley Gardens | Traditional ballad based on poem by William Butler Yeats |
| 3 | Unchained Melody | recorded
by the Righteous Brothers ( Bobby Hatfield) |
| 4 | Urge For Going | by Joni Mitchell |
| 5 | Song For A Winter's Night | by Gordon Lightfoot |
| 6 | I Feel Fine | by The Beatles |
| 7 | In Dreams | by Roy Orbison |
| 8 | The Twelfth Of Never | recorded by Johnny Mathis |
| 9 | Something Stupid | recorded by Frank and Nancy Sinatra |
| 10 | What The World Needs Now | recorded by Jackie DeShannon |
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classic movies |
I love a good classic movie. Most of the best movies were made back in the 30's, 40's and 50's. It is a cliche to use the term " Golden Age of Hollywood" , but it most certainly was just that. My favorite actress of all time is Irene Dunne.
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The wonderful Irene Dunne , an actress who excelled in a variety of genres, also enchanted audiences with her musical talents. |
Some of Irene's classic movies are:
| Show Boat -1936 | My Favorite Wife -1940 | Love Affair -1939 | Theodora Goes Wild -1936 | The Awful Truth -1937 |
| Penny Serenade -1941 | I Remember Mama -1948 | A Guy Named Joe -1943 | Cimarron -1931 | Life With Father -1947 |
| The Age of Innocence -1934 | Back Street -1932 | Magnificent Obsession -1935 | Anna and The King of Siam -1946 | The Secret of Madame Blanche -1933 |
| The White Cliffs of Dover -1944 | Sweet Adeline -1934 | Roberta -1935 | Unfinished Business -1941 | High, Wide and Handsome -1937 |
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other movie favorites |
| Far From The Madding Crowd - 1967 | The African Queen - 1951 |
| I Am Sam - 2001 | Doctor Zhivago - 1965 |
| Random Harvest - 1942 | It's A Wonderful Life - 1946 |
| Rio Grande - 1950 | Intermezzo ( USA) - 1936 |
| Ladyhawke - 1985 | As Good As It Gets - 1997 |
| The Bridges Of Madison County - 1995 | Shakespeare In Love - 1998 |
| Never Let Me Go - 1953 | The Caine Mutiny - 1954 |
| To Kill A Mockingbird - 1962 | Mrs. Miniver - 1942 |
| Adam's Rib - 1949 | The Miracle Worker - 1962 |
| To Each His Own - 1946 | Marvin's Room - 1996 |
| ...First Do No Harm - 1997 | The Flim-Flam Man - 1967 |
| Jeremiah Johnson - 1972 | On Golden Pond - 1981 |
| Red River - 1948 | Miracle On 34th Street - 1947 |
| Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - 1967 | The Red Pony - 1973 |
| Roman Holiday - 1953 | It Happened One Night - 1934 |
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dachshunds and other cuties |
Is there anything more precious ?
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writers |
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Richard Paul Evans
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Novels ( usually romantic) He wrote " The Christmas Box" in 1995 and I have read everything of his since then. I just finished " The Last Promise". I highly recommend his books!
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