Songs: Will Ye Go Lassie Go (Wild Mountain Thyme) by The Corries, Red Is The Rose by Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy, The Parting Glass by Liam Clancy
Scents: lemongrass in the shower, eucalyptus in the sauna, cedar in the study, and a peaty Welsh wind on a warm and windy walk.
Non-Fiction: On the Shortness of Life, A Pocket Mirror for Heroes, How to Be Idle, Ecclesiastes, Walden, and 55 more.
Fiction: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, The Hobbit
Films: Midnight in Paris, Band of Brothers, The Village, It’s A Wonderful Life, 12 Angry Men, The Sound of Music, Hold That Ghost, The Game
Animated: Ratatouille, Beauty and the Beast
Docs: All the Time In The World, Tim’s Vermeer, The Lovers & the Despot
Apps: Gmail Undo Send, Gmail Send+Archive, Momentum, F.lux, The Great Suspender, Boomerang, Grammarly,
Work: Refurbished laptop + Nexstand + Split Keyboard + periscope glasses + non-Moleskine notebooks
Health: Hypervolt by Hyperice, inversion table, Physix unbreakable roller
Items: Saxx, 40oz Kleen Kanteen, Henckels knives
Sports: Basketball, table tennis, Spike ball
Wildlife: Male ring-necked pheasant, wood bison
Cheese: Snowdonia Black Bomber
Mexican: Burrito suizos at Tacos El Norte, chipotle enchiladas at Zarape.
Indian: Diwa
BBQ: Brisket at Kreuz Market
Pizza: Tony’s Pizza Napoletana
Market hall: Fulham
Colonial: Longfellow’s Wayside Inn
Pubs: The George in Southwark, Skirrid Mountain Inn in Abergavenny, The Blue Anchor Inn in Barry, Royal Standard of England in Beaconsfield, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street, Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham
Drinks: Ginger kombucha. Orchard Pig’s Truffler Cider. Guinness. Laphroaig 12
Cocktail: Vesper Martini at Duke’s Bar, Oaxaca Old Fashioned at Duke of Cambridge
Chalk stream: Letcombe Brook
River: Teifi, Thames, Blackfoot, Wye, Cahabon
Swimming hole: Barton Springs in Austin
Pond: Walden (I’ve pilgrimaged in all four seasons)
Lake: Superior (Best enjoyed from Agawa Bay)
Cinemas: BFI Imax in London, State Theatre in Traverse City
Bookshops: Waterstones Oxford, Shakespeare and Company, Richard Booth’s
Museum: St. Fagan’s
Author homes: Dove Cottage, Ralph Waldo Emerson House, Longfellow House, Orchard House
Architecture: Exeter College Dining Hall, Eilean Donan Great Hall, Juche Tower, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Texas State Capitol, Iviron, Sanctuary of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Islands: Maui, Caye Caulker, Bardsey
Cities: Oxford, Edinburgh, London
Towns: Concord, Paia, Gruene, Fort Worth
Villages: Field, Mwnt
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