A Few of My Favorite Things

A few of my favorite things A few of my favorite things Looking at paintings of Cezanne Rembrandt Van Gogh and Rodin thinking of their lives and of their times of where and when they painted of why and of who they where with These are a few of my favorite things Listening to music of Coplan’s Appalachian spring Beethoven’s ninth symphony jazz of miles monk colt rain songs of Dylan chimes of freedom and blowing in the wind These are a few of my favorite things Thinking of the past when Robert Kennedy touched a small black Childs face with a tender hand and asked if he had eaten that day and of his speech when he told the crowd king had died and quoted the Greek poet Aeschylus even in our sleep pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until in our own despair against our will comes wisdom through the grace of god When Joan Baez in Sarajevo during the surge in bullet proof vest changed places with a street musician Vedran Smailovic who plays a cello in the public square she takes his place and sings amazing grace When jimmy carter befriends a little boy Mattie J.T. Stepanek who wrote poetry of just peace and a message of hope in his short time of life Of the first responders who went fearless into the falling towers to save lives These are a few of my favorite things When in the wilderness and mountains peaks or lakes and rivers seeing wildlife in their habitats amongst the swarms of morphing swallows and sunbeams and rainbows the quite springs and moving tides and gulls in their nests These are a few of my favorite things Sitting in a café with a friend or a quiet walk along the shore talking about books and ideas of the day of feelings experiences and such things of creating something of beauty to share with others These are a few of my favorite things