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[cornerofmadness]

Here's a new Meme. Comment on this post, and I give you a letter of the alphabet, and you post a list of ten things you love that start with that letter. ishte gave me the letter W

1. Water – I might be an air sign but I’m much more aligned with water. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t swim. I love the ocean (being in it, not sitting on the beach), I never feel more at home than when I’m lakeside. My daily relaxation time is in the tub. I used to be more active in cleaning up the water supplies
2. Watermelon – I’m trying to grow them again. I’m failing but I’m trying. I love it. I love the fake candy watermelon too. One of my favorite fruits
3. Writing – my most favorite thing to do. What took me until #3 to think of it, I have no idea. I’ve been writing almost all my life. I’m prolific. I’m occasionally good. It’s something that even when I fall down and don’t want to do it any more, I always come back around quickly. It’s not a hobby. It’s a life style
4. Winter – my most favorite time of the year. Yes I can’t garden but I feel GOOD. My body doesn’t suffer. I love looking out over the cool white snow. I enjoy walking in it. Okay I’m not thrilled with ice on the roads but other than that I love winter
5. Wisconsin – I have lived across almost all of the United States. I’ve lived in WI twice. I would go back in a heartbeat. It’s got natural beauty. The people are as friendly as anywhere I have ever been. Madison is a great city. Upper Wisconsin is rugged and just amazing. The whole place with one or two exceptions is so clean you can barely believe humans live here.
6. Walking – While I often grumble about it, I do like to walk and hike. I’m reading Thicht nhat hanh’s walking meditation trying to use it to both exercise more and learn to relax better
7. Wind – I love the sound of the wind in the trees, especially when a storm is approaching I enjoy it so much I have cds of Aeolian harp music, harps named after Aeolus, the god of wind, i.e. slap a harp on a hillside and record what the wind plays
8. Wind instruments – yes this is cheating reusing a word but I maintain they’re two very different things (and this isn’t an easy letter). I have always been drawn to wind instruments and have been good with them. I’m far less good with string. I enjoy playing sax, clarinet and flute among others. I wish I had more time to play.
9. Waxing/waning – definitely cheating but it brings in my love of the moon and everything about her. She’s full as I’m typing this or darn near to it. I love the stages of the moon and love the piece of jewelry I made surrounding it.
10. Woods – I enjoy being in the woods. It’s another one of those peaceful, I belong here kind of feeling. For that matter I just like wood, the way it feels, the way it looks polished and stained, love the smell of it in a fireplace, all very comforting things.