Favorites

Some of my favorite things include:

• Activities: hanging out with friends and family, rollerblading, hiking, dancing, boating, sitting on rocks by the ocean, concerts and festivals (especially outdoors)
• Sights: oceans, lakes, rivers, trees (with leaves on them or evergreens), see also favorite colors and favorite flowers
• Sounds: the ocean, see also favorite musicians
• Smells: clean outdoor air, pine, cedar, ocean
• Feels: sunshine, grass, comfortable clothes
• Tastes: strawberries, blueberries, flan, pudding, ice cream
• Colors: rainbow, tie-dye, lavender, jade
• Flowers: hydrangeas, lilacs, wisteria
• Names: Emma, Griffin, Hannah, Holly, Jacob, Jade, Jill, Joy, Juniper, Kate, Logan, Sage, Sierra
• Musicians, female vocalists: Ronnie Gilbert, Jessee Havey, Carol Noonan, Leandra Peak, Linda Thompson, Mary Travers, Carol Young
• Musicians, male vocalists : Eric Andersen, Dan Berggren, Joe Crookston, Tom Paxton, Elvis Presley, Tom Rhoads, Tao Rodriguez Seeger, Bill Staines
• Musicians, charismatic and inspiring: Ronnie Gilbert, Tao Rodriguez Seeger, Pete Seeger
• Musicians, groups: Kim and Reggie Harris, Magpie, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Schooner Fare, Serendipity Singers, Smithfield Fair, , the Weavers, Woods Tea Company
• Musicians, not folk: Abba, Beatles, Bee Gees, Meat Loaf, Renaissance, Happy Rhodes, Spirit in Flesh
• Songs:
  The "by" in the list below refers to performer, not necessarily the writer.
  
  • What you Are by the Greencards
  • Out of the Rain by the Duhks
  • Mountain Air by Dan Berggren
  • Mary Ellen Carter by Stan Rogers
  • Arrow by Cheryl Wheeler
  • This is a Mean World by Sweet Honey in the Rock
  • Give Light by Magpie
    
  • Poor Me / (may there always be sunshine) by Joe Crookston
    
  • Rock Me Grandpa by the Limeliters
    
  • There is a Mountain by Donovan
    
  • Funeral for a Friend by Elton John
  • Don't Give Up by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush
  • Wake Up by John McCutcheon
  Songs I like because of the sound, lively
  • Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond
  • Love is Strange by Mickey and Sylvia
  • Big Blue Sky by Rachel Garlin
    
  • Cosecha lo que Siembres by Roy Brown, Tito Auger, and Tao Rodriguez Seeger
  Songs I like because of the sound, mellow
  • Young Westley by Mary McCaslin
    
  • Wicked Game by Gypsy Soul
  • Acony Bell by Gillian Welch or Annie and the Hedonists
    
  • The Water is Wide by Mustard's Retreat
  • If I Needed You by Lyle Lovett
  • No Pride at All by Jesse Winchester
  • Defying Gravity by Jesse Winchester
  • So Long Marianne by Leonard Cohen
  • Drop Me Down by Tres Chicas
    
  • How the Night Time Sings by Brooks Williams
  • Peace Will Come by Tom Paxton
    
  • She Loved Moses by Amy Fradon
  • Potter's Wheel by Freyda Epstein
  • Evona Darling by Linda Thompson with Teddy Thompson
  • Quite Early Morning by the Mammals
  • Tango to Evorra by Loreena McKennitt
  • Night Ride Across the Caucasus by Loreena McKennitt
    
  • The Dolphins by Billy Bragg
  • Roseville Fair by Bill Staines
  • I Don't Want Your Millions Mister by Tao Rodriguez Seeger
  • Closer by Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem
    
  Songs I like because of the lyrics
  • Sara McCutcheon by Cathy Fink
  • The Golden Glove by John Wesley Harding
    
  • One Voice by Wailin' Jennies
  • Waltz of the Wallflowers by Small Potatoes
  • Horizontal Hold by Peter Ostroushko
  • Hot Frogs on the Loose by Fred Small
  • Rock Me to Sleep by Faith Petric
    
  Songs about peace, simplicity, love and other good values
  • 10,000 Candles, 10,000 Cranes by Small Potatoes
  • From Every Mountain Side by Dan Berggren
  • Peace Begins in my Own Heart by Dan Berggren
  • Satisfied Mind by the Mammals
  • Riverside by Ollabelle
  • The Only Way by Ellis Paul
  • Rich by Neal and Leandra
    
  • Old Green Sweater by Dan Berggren
  • Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton
    
  • What We Left Behind by Tom Pacheco
  • Alice by Peggy Eyres and Dan Berggren
  • Tannery Pond Reel by Dan Berggren, Chris Shaw, and John Kirk
  • Boys in the Choir by Tom Chapin
  • My Personal Revenge, recorded by Jackson Browne, written by Tomás Borge & Louis Enrique Mejía Godoy; English translation by Jorge Calderón.
  Poignant songs
  
  • Ten Dollar Christmas by Christopher Shaw and Bridget Ball
  • Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon
  • Jack and Lucy by Hugh and Katie Moffatt
  • Something in the Rain by Tish Hinojosa
  • Kilkelly, Ireland by Greenfields of America
  • Frankie and Johnny by Garnet Rogers
  • Outside by Kate Blain
    
  Songs of long-lasting loves
  • Dance and Sway by Joe Crookston
  • Lies by Stan Rogers
• Radio stations: WMPG, WMUD, WUMB
• Authors: Tamora Pierce, Cynthia Voigt, Robin McKinley
• Fictional characters: Luna Lovegood, Sandrilene fa Toren
• Actors, female: Drew Barrymore, Kate Jackson, Brittany Murphy
• Actors, male: Nicholas Cage, John Cusack, Johnny Depp
• TV: Boston Legal, Pushing Daisies
• Movies: Adaptation, Fierce Creatures, High Fidelity, Mama Mia, Moonstruck, Secretary, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
• States: Maine, Vermont
• Accents: Maine
  
• Colleges: College of the Atlantic, Haverford, Marlboro