These are a few of my favorite things...

Lists are fun...

Favorite quotes:
"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving." Amy Carmichael, British missionary

"Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well." Mary Cholmondeley, British author

"Well-behaved women seldom make history." Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (I admit I lifted this from my friend Jenn's blog, thanks Jenn!)

Favorite hymns & spiritual songs:
A Mighty Fortress is Our God
It is Well with my Soul
I Surrender All

O Come and Mourn:
(O love of God, O sin of man
In this dread act Your strength is tried
And victory remains with love
Jesus our Lord is crucified.)


Books:
The Bible
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Harry Potter series books 1-5 (favorite is #4), by J.K. Rowling
Most historical fictions by Phillippa Gregory, esp. Earthly Joys and Virgin Earth
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffennegger
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
One Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseni
Meeting God at Every Turn by Catherine Marshall
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Favorite Poet:
William Wordsworth

Movies:
Elizabeth
Gone With the Wind
Hotel Rwanda
Because of Winn Dixie
Narnia - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Comfort of Strangers
The Piano
My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Popular Musicians:
They Might be Giants
Rebecca St. James
R.E.M.
The Cure
Depeche Mode
Jars of Clay
Newsboys
Dave Matthews & band
Duran Duran (flashback! Yes, I was a teen in the 80s)
U2
Sting
Simon & Garfunkel

Ok, I'll add more later!