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I'm interested in just about everything, but to mention a few favorites if you want to make me choose... I love being out in nature; hiking, running, biking, surfing or just watching the world and exploring, and I’ll usually play just about any sport (soccer is probably my favorite) for as long as anyone else wants to play :). I like most types of music and enjoy singing - karaoke or gathered with friends around a piano or guitar. I grew up as an amateur astronomer and still love lying out under the stars or observing the night sky with a telescope, and deep late-night conversations.
Perhaps the most precious activity to me is simply taking time to ponder and reflect on the meaning of things. Along those lines, here are some of my favorite quotations:
• "There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening
that is translated through you into action, and because there is only
one of you in all time, this expression is unique and if you block it,
it will never exist through any medium and will be lost… the world
will not have it.
It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how it compares
with other expressions… it is your business to keep it yours clearly
and directly, to keep the channel open." -- Agnes de Mille
• "This summer night deep down under the stars was all things you would ever see or hear or feel in your life, drowning you all at once." -- Ray Bradbury
• “There are many windows through which we can look out into the world, searching for meaning…Most of us, when we ponder on the meaning of our existence, peer through but one of these windows onto the world. And even that one is often misted over by the breath of our finite humanity. We clear a tiny peephole and stare through. No wonder we are confused by the tiny fraction of the whole that we see. It is, after all, like trying to comprehend the panorama of the desert or the sea through a rolled-up newspaper.”
-- Jane Goodall, Through a Window, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, p. 10.
