what the things in life you really enjoy?

Answer 1

Oooh, what a question!

I love to listen to Sing,Sing, Sing (With a Swing) - the old Benny Goodman hit at Carnegie Hall with Gene Krupa and Harry James. This wonderful piece of music has been called the swing era's "all-time house rocker". It was to swing and jazz what "I Feel Good" has been to Rhythm and Blues.

I love dashing, ambling, standing, flowing and shifting about the streets of New York City. I love the interchanges that cannot be predicted with all walks of life.

I love the approach to most big cities. I don't even mind sitting on a bus with others watching the excitement brew as the city lights get closer; with a good driver behind the wheel, so I can just absorb all transitions, all nuances. I loved this approach to the city even as a child when we used to drive into Toronto and I would wait with baited breath to spot the familiar neon signs that would flash and change color.

I love concerts of all kinds. I love dissolving myself in the crowd - whether they are dancing or just sitting riveted. I love Mahler concerts - especially the 2nd Symphony and the 8th Symphony called Symphony of a Thousand.

I love crowded beaches in the same way. I love to dissolve into a single state with everybody as the children dart to and fro, in and out of the water as if they were imitating terns and sandpipers. It makes you want to live forever. I love backwaters like Barnegat Bay and people who want to protect them.

I can barely describe what happens to me when I get on my mountain bike and head up the hill to the local park and lake called the Dingle. Riding the main trail that circles the lake reminds me of slaloming around mogles with skis. On the trail I enjoy balancing etiquette against passion.

The same can be said for sailing. There is something about sailing a planing dinghy in very rough weather - especially gales - when some sort of a miracle is required to keep the boat flat and somehow keep the bow from submarining. I love defying the odds with a wet suit and heading into open ocean until my muscles are just about to give out. I can only engage in this 'madness' in cycles. But when the cycle comes round, I love the terror and the skill required to avoid disaster. I love swimming among huge waves as long as the water is not brutally cold.

I love big ships.

I love watching the star Sirius in Canis Major rise in the winter. I swear to god that sultry, gorgeous star - that the ancient Egyptians associated with Isis - tangibly affects my heart. It scintillates and oscillates between red and blue, in part because the invisible White Dwarf, Sirius B is orbiting it and distorting the light by the powerful gravitational interaction between the two stars: the one bright, the other dark and collapsed to a super-dense state.

I love sifting through the clues that bind together the ancient cultures that once seemed to have been centered around Egypt. I get enormous pleasure out of examining and interpreting Egyptian wall tableau and bas relief. I love the mentality of the Ancient Egyptians in the same way that I love the mentality of the ancient Chinese Taoists. There is a freedom in their universal respect for the relationship between above and below. I enjoy the Pyramid Texts and I Ching with equal relish.

I love genuine people: young, old, middle-aged. I love authentic graciousness. I find myself recalling it over and over weeks after I see a person be gracious, or generous, or spontaenous, or true, or beautiful, or honest. It always cleanses and lightens my heart and makes me want to live longer and better and somehow be capable of the same authenticity myself. Recently I saw an older women have the most touching interchange with a younger, very beautiful oriental girl from New Jersey. I was moved, touched and altered by so lovely, simple and gracious an interaction - both of them giving and receiving without guile.

I love acting on the stage with actors who are hilarious. I love being in the position of having to control a superbundant energy that can unexpectedly rise up between two actors. When the laughter comes in front of an audience, I know I'm in trouble, but it's a good trouble, a great trouble. Once that superabundant fountain of shared power gets harnessed, miracles can happen on the stage. There's nothing like it except perhaps making love with a person you care about. You can wait years for these events, but when they happen they are well worth the wait. When they strike unexpectedly, they are fantastic.

I love natural monuments such as Yosemite and the Grand Canyon. But even smaller places get to me. I visited a small lake in New Zealand once and the sound was inimitable. There were no planes and the wind had become light. It seemed that I was in a glass sound bubble. And at that moment I could feel no distinction between Earth and Heaven. It was then that specific birds that I had never heard before started their ancient, pure, primeval sounds as if they were uttering them through the crack of the first light. In the twinkling of an eye, sound and light seemed as if they were one sense. There was no separation between man and Nature; no opposition. If I could liken myself to a musical instrument, it was as if that New Zealand lake had just tuned me to perfection.

Now I always look forward to hiking out to the coast; up mountains, along rivers and hopefully to a lake. Even up here in Canada, I love to go with my long-time companion to the location of the world's highest tides and just stop. I love the sensation of the tide slowly advancing and retreating, because it strikes me as the terrestrial precursor to respiration. And then the birds tune in. The crows become amazing. Their noises are not just social; they are too ancient to date. They too herald from the first crack, the first split when the light gets through and the sound starts to create the ear, the crows arrive with their first borble as if right on cue. They too have a propensity for humor. I love it when I can share these things, then I don't have to worry whether others believe me.

I love drawing the human head; the face; the mystery of its harmonies; its incomparable geography.

I love it when people dance; when passion and soul unite.

I love rain, sun and wind.

I love the smell of grass in the spring. I love it when the earth opens up after the winter has finally yielded.

I love learning the secrets of harmony - the way Nature builds with proportions gifted with life; bodies gifted with health; voices gifted with songs; words that cannot escape the truth.

And obviously I love your question. What a beautiful question to open the year with.

Most of all I love simple, honest moments, when people, creatures - great and small - are just being themselves.

I wonder what I have forgotten to include here. Music, the water, the Great Sphinx, the peep of chickadees, women who love and care and think. I love watching people mature; bumping into people I have not seen for years, before either of us has had a chance to prepare a mask; when our shields have been momentarily abandoned. What we recognize we can only share, not describe.

I love it when people turn obstacles into occasions for growth. I love it when they feel the concience to remind others of this vital secret. Use an obstacle to strengthen yourself. Then try to tell your story. It will strengthen others.

I love it when people recognize how love is superior to hate; how harmony can overcome discord; how peace is greater than war, especially when one learns that peace is also harder than war. People who practice creative peace inspire me like no one else. Creative peace is not quiescence. Is anything more enjoyable than creative peace?

I enjoy simple food because it leaves me free to enjoy everything else.

I love being in love. And I love running though the rain.

Oh, yes. Sunrise. Doing nothing on a pure deck overlooking an unobstructed space like the sea; everyone asleep. Start at dawn and then as the colors change don't move. But don't freeze either. Watching the red bleed across that long, thin horizon. And up it comes: a great, crimson Eye.

I appreciate your question.

B. Lyons

Answer 2

So many things that money dosnt even play a part in it....well maybe a few things :)

`Spending time with my boyfriend
`Laughing
`Having deep conversations about life or feelings
`Dancing
`Starbucks
`Taking pictures
`Music
`Driving
`Bonfires
`Summer
`Refelecting on the past, looking at your present, and predicting your future.
`Late night visits from friends.
There are so much to look forward too and enjoy right now

Answer 3

Spending time with my partner and my two dogs. It's the little things that I really enjoy such as walking the dogs with my partner.

Answer 4

everything you are suppose to enjoy life

Answer 5

daughters bedtime,picking daughter up after school,movies and a clean house

Answer 6

all above & below
plus the feeling of love from people with no reason

Answer 7

Hiking...i live in new york, but i love to travel ...CALIFORNIA! Sunsets, excircise and family + friends.