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I hope to follow this list up with a list of things I find annoying. I was going to make it a list of stuff I hate followed by a list of stuff I love, but I think that wording is way too strong and “adore” vs. “am annoyed by” are terms at once more accurate and amusing.

Things I adore without hesitation (list subject to change and further complication):

Bears
Jokes or stories involving bears
Pictures of real bears, especially when taken by people I know
Art involving bears
Ancient folktales, legends and myths in which bears figure prominently
Ice cream
Sledding
My sisters and brother
Traveling
Traveling by train, specifically
Buddhist Iconography
Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Iconography
Tibet, in particular it’s general aesthetic (art and culture)
Chinese, the language
China, the country
Eastern Russia
Any other generally enigmatic parts of the world (sparsely populated, seldom traveled places)
Physical geography
Oceans
Mountains
Great Cities
Public transportation
Mollusks (eating them, mostly)
Octopii
Squid
Dogs
The color Red
Soviet aesthetics
Punk rock and hardcore, the former from the 80s, the latter from the 90s
Americana
1930s, New Deal Era socialism (both politically and aesthetically)
Baseball, especially the history of baseball
Great art made by friends (which seems to always be in ample supply)
Hum
Bands from New Brunswick, regardless of genre, especially in its heyday
The deft and eloquent use of the English Language
Puns, references and silly turns-of-phrase
Friends
The Winter
Coniferous forests covered in snow
The northeastern American deciduous forest, especially in spring
Trees, in general
Children, especially when they talk
My siblings’ imaginations
Being able to put a given idea on paper in just the right way (there are few accomplisments more satisfying)
Romanticism
Walt Whitman (arguably the greatest voice of democracy ever, or at least on this continent)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (being, as Americans, our true founding father)
Pre-columbian Native American history
Northern California, when the weather is just right
The Pacific Northwest in general, when the weather is just right
Southern Italy, especially Sicily
Italian-Americans, wherever they might be
Sicilian food
My grandparents
Eastern Europe, especially the former Yugoslavia
Breakfast
Being in a room full of people I care about
Being in a room full of people I find fascinating (these two are obviously not mutually exclusive)
Large crowds of people in general
Certain internet memes
Talking for hours with someone new
People from other countries
Walking

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