Oh, but life is good! Even with all the trouble in this world, there is a great deal to be glad about, as Pollyanna would say.
Some of my favorite things in this world are great music (of course), great musicians, and great conductors. I like good music, good musicians and good conductors as well, but truly great ones are rare and therefore more precious, like gold. The great music is the music that finds you wherever you are and transports you at the speed of light to unknown worlds, undreamed of by mortals. Great musicians are the magicians that work such magic and great conductors are the tour guides. Yes, great music is one of my favorite things.
I absolutely love a good party. It can be a plain old birthday party in someone's back yard or a fancy dress-up affair with all the right people. I just love being around people who are talking, laughing, having a good time and in general have forgotten that the bills have to be paid and the car needs to be fixed. Some of the best moments in life come when people are just people and they talk. I love it.
Aren't trees amazing? They are always beautiful. Whether it's the South American Ombu tree or just an ordinary Oak tree in your front yard, trees are a wonder. Some trees bear fruit like the Peach tree, and just keep giving, year after year when all you do is water them. Some trees have edible seeds like the Walnut.. Some trees like the Maple tree, have sap that flows yearly, making yummy syrup. Some trees are just plain beautiful, like the Mimosa tree with it's whispy flowers. I am in awe at the power trees have to not only produce oxygen, but to clean the air as well. That and a thousand other things make trees one of my favorite things.
Children are the supreme creation, in my opinion. I like people, but little people can be so charming, so innocent, so likable, so forgiving, so, well... just superb. I love how they can do something really dreadful like smear cooking oil all over your kitchen floor and five minutes later greet you with greasy hands and a kiss saying, “I didn't mean to!” I also love how with one smile from a three-year-old, suddenly the world just got a whole lot better. I love how they can say things that come right to the heart of the matter like when they give you that 'over the glasses' look and say, “You said you would help me yesterday and you didn't.” Children have a way of seeing through hypocrisy that sometimes makes parents uncomfortable. But if we didn't have those little people going around checking up on us once in a while, what would we end up like, I wonder?
Of all the things I love, the world itself would have to be the biggest. There are so many wonderful things to see and experience in this world. Everyone's neighborhood seems to have some great thing waiting to be explored. In fact, the place is just full of things to see and do. I love mountains, waterfalls, forests, plains, rivers, springs, canyons, oceans, cliffs, and every little detail about them. There seems to be an endless variety of landscapes in this world, and as if that weren't enough, there are people to match every one of them. I would like to take a trip around the world, and not just to travel from point A around and back to point A again but I would like to visit every place in the world and see every people, National Geographic-style. What I have seen so far has been great, and I can't wait to see the rest of this wonderful world. I feel like Robert Lewis Stevenson who wrote:
The world is so full of a number of things
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings!
So, what are we waiting for?
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