How about love?

Feb 23

I wrote this list during a down period at work today.

Lately, I've been reading a lot of non-fiction. I finished Bill Bryson's memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid last night, and I had a very mixed response to the book as a whole. Either way, one thing I really appreciated about my randomly purchased book was that it tickled that part of me deep down inside that sincerely wants to write. I'm a pretty awful writer -- this blog is proof of that -- but it's always been a hidden passion of mine, even if I'm far too lazy and too untalented to really do anything with it.

Anyway, I had a free period at work today, so I decided that the first step in writing Melissa's Grand Memoir was to meditate about what things truly stirred the soup of Melissa's Soul. This was my list. I scribbled it down in about two minutes. That was pretty much all the time I had before I had to rush into another lesson, but had I had another minute or two, I would have added the following:

• my chosen family, as love is thicker than blood
• spirituality and my unknown but ever-present personal image of the divine
• above-the-knee socks
• Rilakkuma
  

...but as it is, I think it's a pretty decent list.

What do you care about?