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Words: Halcyon, hiraeth, sisu

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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