I decided to write this because for whatever reason I'm bursting from my heart a tremendous amount of love for things today. I'll try to keep the comedy in this.
This is going to read as though a 2nd grader wrote it... Just warning you.
When I'm really happy, I'm like 7 years old... And the main point I'm making is how hard it is to only say what we love and make it funny... So this is an experiment of sorts. I'd also love to hear what you love.
I love nice large teeth. I enjoy watching people speak, love watching people smile, and when someone smiles from the heart, like truly smiles, there's NOTHING I enjoy watching more than that. Nothing. Except maybe the things that caused the smile in the first place.
I love dogs. All canines. I think dogs, all dogs, all canines from foxes, wolves, coyotes, the wild red spotted dog of Africa, scary dogs, mean dogs, stupid dogs, fat dogs.... I love them. I think they are actually on earth to save us from ourselves. l
I love it when people take the time to write me something so complimentary that I'm humbled to the point of tears. So many people who have done this random act of kindness thing, have NO idea how they've affected me and restored my faith. Thank you.
I love brisket, chicken & dumplings, sushi, the texture of a hard fried egg, beans-- all beans, I'm a lover of a bean... you can call me a beaner and I won't get offended because I love a' bean. Mexicans across the country know of my love of a bean. In fact, there's nothing I love more than a bean except one thing... Cayenne pepper. I carry it in my bag, no lie.
I love the color yellow and I love yellow even more when it's paired with turquoise or orange. Yellow makes me happy. Yellow can bring me from feeling a bit blah-blah to feeling like dancing by myself to Frank Sinatra in the living room. It has that much of a powerful effect.
I love black people. I will say it until the day I die, but black people are the reason this world has any type of value. Music would suck without black people. There would be no music without black people. Black people understand Jesus better than anyone. Nobody would be inspired by athletes if black people didn't exist and NOTHING would be as funny if there weren't black people. I could go on but I'm the biggest fan of the passionate raw delicious energy of black people. If you are black and reading this... I love you.
I love smile lines... even my own.
I love watching assembly line machines, gears in clocks, any metal machinery. I could watch metal being bent or molded all damn day. I really could. I love the sound of a drill when it screws in the hardware in the most perfect way. It makes my mouth water to watch a machine work in a perfect way. I would be happy as a tinkerer in a garage for the rest of my life.... but nobody would let me just do that.
I love airplanes. I love to fly. I love the sound of a plane breaking the sound barrier. I love the idea that I can be in another part of the planet in hours. Planes are magic.
I love Israel. It's the most beautifully complicated place on earth with the most unique people on earth. The way you feel sitting at a table overlooking the sea and talking with Israelis is like no other feeling in the world. It's the most important little strip of land in the world and there's a reason why it's the promised land.
I love New York, Memphis, Chicago and Baltimore.
I love Texas. I love being a Texan. I love the vast beautiful openness and diversity of my home state. I love how each area of Texas is like its own country. I love the good, bad, great and ugly of it. I love how there are animals here that can kill you and ones that can inspire songs, poems, and art. I love the shape of Texas. I love that it contains everything from the desert to the lush swamps of east Texas.
I love the idea of UFO's, Bigfoot, and every crypto animal that has been seen by people across the world. It makes me feel excited to think that we don't have everything figured out. It gives me a sense of great possibility to think that there are things out there that could change our whole perspective of how vast and mysterious creation truly is. It makes God bigger.
I love well made clothes.
I love risk takers. I love people who against all public scrutiny decide to take a stand either for a cause or for themselves and do something unconventional for the greater good, personal discovery, or out of passion that comes from the gut feeling, "this feels right." Even if I don't agree with all of them, it gives me hope for mankind when someone swims the other direction against the current.
I love the sound of a hearty belly laugh from a baby. Who doesn't?
I love Jack Hanna. I think he's from the light. I love his enthusiasm for animals, I love the stupid names he comes up with for his rescued turtle or cheetah, and I love how truly elated he gets when he's talking about animals. I love his deep southern accent and his dumb face. I love him.
I love W.C. Fields. I find nobody who has ever lived on planet earth funnier than W.C. Fields. Nobody. If you haven't watched any of his stuff.... do yourself a big favor and watch the following, "The Golf Specialist," "The Dentist," for starters... then follow the breadcrumb trail of hilarity. I consumed W.C. Fields short films when I was a kid almost daily. I wore out a VHS cassette by watching it too much. It never gets old to me.
I love words. If you've ever been around a real wordsmith person, there is nothing more impressive than someone who knows how to put words together in a perfect way to describe an abstract idea. I have always envied and admired people with a veracious vocabulary. I try but it isn't my superpower... yet. I'm working on it.
I love grapeseed oil for moisturizing. If you haven't tried it, you should. You will feel like Cleopatra after you slather yourself in it post-shower. It's luxurious.
I love angels. I think angels (the good ones) are probably the most bad ass thing in the universe. I love the idea that there are watchers of this planet who on God's command can intervene and change the outcome of any situation. To me, there would be no better job in the universe than this. I love the descriptions of them and being a power nerd of Marvel comics, I feel like in an epic battle of The Avengers, it would be the raddest movie ever if Stan Lee tagged in the archangels alongside Thor n' the gang. I would get too excited and have a heart attack in the movie theatre over that shit.
I love that prayer or quantum entanglement actually has been proven scientifically to work. That lets me know that our "made in His image" thing is even more true than we know. "All thoughts are creative matter." -Einstein. So we create by thought, just like God does? Fantastic.
I love painting. I need to do more of it.
I love mythology of any kind from anywhere around the world. I love putting the puzzle together and realizing that we all have the same mythology throughout time but the character's names are changed depending on the culture. Mankind has these ancient superhero stories of failure, triumph, and divine guidance, bad decisions, and repentance and it connects us to our ancestors and makes me realize that we are still waiting for that one situation that will change everything in our lives forever. I love that.
I could go on and on and on.... but I'd love to hear some of your loves.
I figure with all my negative funny rants I post, I should balance out the acid a bit by releasing some flip side fuzzy stuff every once in a while. I hope you will feel free to allow yourselves to express what you love no matter how insignificant you think it might be to those around you... express it! It will infuse you with energy today.
No comments:
Post a Comment