February 28, 1999 | My Favorite Things


		My Favorite Things February 28, 1999 This is my entry for the February Collaboration for the On Display journal webring. This month's question: What are the things in your life that you love the most? Too easy. Jean My soulmate. If I could only have one person or thing, it would be Jean. Over the past seventeen years, from dating to not dating to dating to marriage and now parenthood, she and I have formed a closer bond than I could have hoped would be possible in my lifetime. She is my balance and my encouragement to be better than I am. Colette My daughter, now two and a half weeks old. She's not quite interactive yet, but it is easy to spend hours staring into her eyes or at her face. She is good natured, only fussing when there's a reason to fuss, and curious about the world she now inhabits. Her journey of discovery is my journey of rediscovery. My Family I am overjoyed that my family is as close as it is. In some ways I think we are, as a unit, closer than we were growing up. We are all so different from one another, and yet we are all so much the same at the core. It is in adulthood that we have grown to tolerate the differences that maddened us in youth, and I look forward to each time I get to see them all. Literature and Music Literature and music are, as the Indigo Girls put it, "kind of telephone line through time," through which I am able to listen to the thoughts and feelings of people who were given the gift of communication. I don't have to agree with what any of them said, but time after time I find they have navigated life's inner landscape sooner and perhaps more thoroughly than I have. I find literature and music both to be a comfort and a challenge: a comfort that centuries cannot devastate the past completely and a challenge to be a part of the ongoing monument to the human experience. I have other loves in life, all of which deserve their own mention, but these are the ones that are most important. < back \| e-mail \| finishing the hat \| 1998 \| next > © 1999 Kevin J.T. Creamer			listening Goldberg Variations (J.S. Bach); Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue (J.S. Bach); Violin Concertos 3 & 4 (Mozart); Serenade No. 10 "Gran Partita" (Mozart) reading Rules for Revolutionaries (Guy Kawasaki) today's poem "Whoever You are, Holding Me now in Hand" (Walt Whitman)