Significant repeated themes & motifs in my life 2009

I'm reading Sarah Susanka's The Not So Big Life and while some of it gets a little woo-woo new agey for me, I'm generally enjoying it. The pieces which are more tightly connected to her brilliant work as an architect and thinker on how we can occupy spaces that keep us happier are better than the generic spiritualism, I find.

Along the way there are various self-exploration exercises. Here's the list I brainstormed up about what are the significant and/or recurring themes/motifs/objects in my life.

• books
• checkerboard spheres
• little whimsical things (but non-obviously so)
• approximately Edwardian things and art
• wood
• unexpected angles (thinking here of the ceilings of my room as a kid, of a little table I have from the club I used to work at)
• walking
• libraries
• public transit (and I was writing this brainstormed list on the MTA originally)
• fresh produce
• spices
• alphabetization
• simple, practical, sturdy, beautiful objects (e.g. a wool blanket I bought in Scotland the summer after high school and still use regularly)
• Japanese art and design
• writing
• sleeping enough (or more than enough)
• dark bedrooms
• practical shoes
• The Web
• Macs and iPhones
• music usually playing
• sounds of the world
• lists
• showers
• reading
• kindness
• San Francisco
• London
• places where redwoods grow
• sourdough French bread
• British humor
• wit
• wordplay
• dictionaries and encyclopedias
• curiousity
• spring green
• all natural greens, really
• guitar music
• The Beatles
• Vince Guaraldi
• smiling
• fresh-cooked meals
• uncomplicated starts to the day
• naturalness (e.g. no makeup, honesty)
• dark chocolate
• cheese
• the feel of clean sheets
• being warm enough
• noticing details
• old houses and new houses with a sense of time and detail
• Victorian houses
• Craftsman furniture
• Craftsman aesthetics
• trying out new foods
• perpetual upgrade

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Significant repeated themes & motifs in my life

I'm reading Sarah Susanka's The Not So Big Life and while some of it gets a little woo-woo new agey for me, I'm generally enjoying it. The pieces which are more tightly connected to her brilliant work as an architect and thinker on how we can occupy spaces that keep us happier are better than the generic spiritualism, I find.

Along the way there are various self-exploration exercises. Here's the list I brainstormed up about what are the significant and/or recurring themes/motifs/objects in my life.

• books
• checkerboard spheres
• little whimsical things (but non-obviously so)
• approximately Edwardian things and art
• wood
• unexpected angles (thinking here of the ceilings of my room as a kid, of a little table I have from the club I used to work at)
• walking
• libraries
• public transit (and I was writing this brainstormed list on the MTA originally)
• fresh produce
• spices
• alphabetization
• simple, practical, sturdy, beautiful objects (e.g. a wool blanket I bought in Scotland the summer after high school and still use regularly)
• Japanese art and design
• writing
• sleeping enough (or more than enough)
• dark bedrooms
• practical shoes
• The Web
• Macs and iPhones
• music usually playing
• sounds of the world
• lists
• showers
• reading
• kindness
• San Francisco
• London
• places where redwoods grow
• sourdough French bread
• British humor
• wit
• wordplay
• dictionaries and encyclopedias
• curiousity
• spring green
• all natural greens, really
• guitar music
• The Beatles
• Vince Guaraldi
• smiling
• fresh-cooked meals
• uncomplicated starts to the day
• naturalness (e.g. no makeup, honesty)
• dark chocolate
• cheese
• the feel of clean sheets
• being warm enough
• noticing details
• old houses and new houses with a sense of time and detail
• Victorian houses
• Craftsman furniture
• Craftsman aesthetics
• trying out new foods
• perpetual upgrade

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