Things I like
Royce Shook
Transition to Retrement
I was watching the Sound of Music and I as I listened to the song "My Favourite Things" I started to list a few of my favourite things. Here are some of my favourite things: ( What are a few of your favourite things?)
- The smell of books and hearing the crack of the spine
- The heft of a book and turning the pages, dog-earing them
- Reading
- The last page of a novel read first
- Rainbows
- Sun showers
- Rivulets
- Snowflakes
- Fireplaces
- Greyish blue and purple
- Cuddly animals
- Anything that makes me feel nice and cosy inside
- Listening to music while dropping off to sleep
- Drinking Ice Tea on a hot summer day
- Lily-of-the-valleys
- Falling in love with a book or movie character
- The symbolic things I like are
- circles
- pathways
- doorways
- Octagons
- Love that makes my soul happy
- Words that sound like their meaning like 'soft,' 'whisper'
- Trees with lots of branches and no leaves
- The colour Blue
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