BS: So what do you love? Really love?

Subject: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: GUEST,GS
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 04:18 PM

I often say I love this or I love that but I suppose what I really love is life itself with all its' intricacies, its' rich tapestry.
What do you REALLY REALLY love?

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 04:25 PM

Does it have to be a "what?" :-)

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 04:29 PM

To be...and to experience being.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: kendall
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 04:31 PM

The problem with English is, we only have one word to cover all kinds of love. I love my wife,my daughters, my antique car, my dog and certain other people (You know who you are) so how can it be the same kind of love for all?

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Becca72
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 04:40 PM

I'm sure he meant to put "my daughters" in there somewhere, too. :-)
just yankin' ya chain, dad.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 04:42 PM

Once you start making a list sometimes the most conspicuous things are what you forget to place on it.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 04:51 PM

Aw shucks... thanks, Cap'n. I am fond of you, too.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Amos
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 04:59 PM

My angelic wife and daughter, my Martin, my world of friends and being among them and the amazing dimensions of the universe as it appears to conscious exploration.

A

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 05:00 PM

Being alive to experience new things every day.

People are an added bonus.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 05:01 PM

Aw shucks... thanks, Liz. I am fond of you, too.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 05:43 PM

bird-watching with my sweetie
snorkeling on a coral reef
making music with friends

someday I want to see
whales
Northern Lights

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: GUEST,GS
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 05:53 PM

Sorry Jerry R...it can be a who, a what, or whatever.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Epona
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 06:28 PM

Being in Ireland with my one and only.

E

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 08:32 PM

I know what you're saying, Guest GS. For me, love is a three letter word. And I know how to count...

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 08:50 PM

Which love?

and why don't strangers who start these kind of threads give us THEIR opinion first, so we can see what they are driving at?

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: michaelr
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 09:03 PM

Scotch whisky -- the smokier, the better. And Irish music.

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: number 6
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 09:45 PM

An opponent who is less skilled than me in the game of tennis.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 10:15 PM

I love knowing that I have lots of friends and family who love me and would miss me if I was gone. I love music. I love humour. I love being able to walk out in my garden and seeing things grow - experiencing the cycles of nature. I love the fact that I am alive to see it all and to breathe the air and smell the smells. I love being able to use all my senses to experience this thing called life. And most of all, I love the knowledge that I am a part of it all.

My son gave me a VCR for Christmas because my old one had died and I have a lot of movies on video which I have not been able to watch for a while, and which would be hard to find otherwise. One of my most treasured movies, which I will find and watch again soon, is "The Seven Faces of Dr Lao", and one of the best quotes from a movie that I ever heard comes right at the end of this one, and captures for me the joy of being alive:

"Mike, the whole world is a circus if you look at it the right way. Every time you pick up a handful of dust, and see not the dust, but a mystery, a marvel, there in your hand, every time you stop and think, 'I'm alive, and being alive is fantastic!' Every time such a thing happens, Mike, you are part of the Circus of Dr. Lao."

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 10:20 PM

I just found a more complete quote which I must share, because I love it so much:

Dr. Lao: "Mike, let me tell you something. The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it. The way the sun goes down when you're tired, comes up when you want to be on the move. That's real magic. The way a leaf grows. The song of the birds. The way the desert looks at night, with the moon embracing it. Oh, my boy, that's... that's circus enough for anyone. Every time you watch a rainbow and feel wonder in your heart. Every time you pick up a handful of dust, and see not the dust, but a mystery, a marvel, there in your hand. Every time you stop and think, "I'm alive, and being alive is fantastic!" Every time such a thing happens, you're part of the Circus of Dr. Lao."

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: number 6
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 10:23 PM

Thanks JennyO

Yes it is a circus, and it is magic, and oh how do I love this circus!

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 10:54 PM

Absolutely, bILL, and to me, part of the magic is also this place - Mudcat, and the way we share our thoughts and feelings with our fellow travellers on this earth, many of whom we have never met. And if/when we do meet, it is like coming home.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 12:46 AM

Like I said. . . Amos already missed MOM MOAB on his short important list. . . (I hope the "kids" count also, but MOM comes first!)

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 03:58 AM

Beer and whisky.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Stu
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 08:04 AM

Whelks.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 08:15 AM

Real Devonshire Dairy Ice Ceam with fresh clotted cream on the top.
Sushi at my favourite Japanese restaurant in Paris. Rare fillet steak with all the trimmings and a good glass of red wine.
Well performed Folk music...preferably traditional.
Large whisky...and when someone says would you like something in it I always say...."More Whisky".
Most of all my daughter and her family.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Shaneo
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 08:49 AM

Guinness , talking bullshit in the pub , Playing a song called 'For Ireland I'll not Tell Her Name' when I'm drunk , and non pretentious people

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: MMario
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 09:07 AM

the scent of a baby, sleeping in my arms.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 09:13 AM

Making lists like this is difficult - they get too long.

I love life and, right now, the Christmas card that my six year old grandson, back in the UK, made for me all by himself.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 09:19 AM

Just about all of the above but especially happy times with my wife, Ann.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 09:26 AM

First and foremost, my two children above anyone or anything else in the world or out of it.

After that, the rest of my family followed very closely by a large number of friends and the Earth herself in all her beauty and wonder.

After that, I love lots of things, but beside those, they pale into insignificance.

Kendall is right though, there are as many different types of love as there are things and people to love.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: terrier
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 12:02 PM

just..........being able to.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Scoville
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 12:28 PM

Animals.

Seriously. I mean, I know everyone loves puppies but I'm amazed over and over at how interesting and beautiful they are, both scientifically and when you know them personally. I've lived with them all my life and I sill can't believe how my traumatized, vacant-eyed, rescue dog turned into such a little hairy person.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Elettra
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 12:37 PM

Having the person I love best in the world as my own, and happy to be so. Really good food prepared together at home in our kitchen. Good live music. Performing a song and knowing I nailed it. Beautiful guitars. The town I live in. Having an experience that makes me know that there's absolutely nowhere else on earth I'd rather be at that moment. For instance, last summer I found myself in a session with Jim Malcolm, Aaron Jones, most of Solas, several other folks who are totally out of my league, my love by my side. Complete joy.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 03:28 PM

Apart from the obvious - family, friends, animals etc. the sort of thing that really tingles the hairs on the back of my neck, makes me feel good to be alive, is standing in the middle of a singing session, doing unaccompanied, multi-harmony songs and feeling the music going right through you. It can happen in an orchestral concert too or even when you're playing along with a group of like-minded musicians, playing the sort of music you really enjoy. You walk away from it feeling totally revived, reborn, ready to take on the world once again. And if your loved one is by your side, that's a bonus.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: MMario
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 03:29 PM

it can happen just *listening* as well; there is not always a need to *do*

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: freda underhill
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 03:33 PM

being surrounded by song is like being a bee in a hive - the sounds hum and vibrate around and through you, and all the people singing are being massaged by song, internally and together. what a wonderful experience.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 05:59 PM

Rather goes without saying "loved ones", doesn't it?

But...hands down, the northern lights--most cosmic experience one can have and still be on the planet.

Genuine kindness and altruism.

The sound of the crickets in the fall.

New snow in the forest at night.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 07:49 PM

Since the title of this thread asks "...what do you love?", instead of "...whom do you love", I'm going to ignore the human beings whom I love and stick with the non-human.

I don't love any physical objects, but I do love the experiences some objects help me enjoy. I love playing music and creating ceramic art, but I don't love my guitars or my potter's wheel. They're just tools to help me have creative experiences. It's the process that I love, not the tools nor even the completed project. I've created and sold thousands of pots, but I've yet to create a single piece that I've felt compelled to keep for my own.

The one thing that could be considered a physical object that I will admit to loving is "my" land. I put "my" in quotes because while I have a deed that says I own it, I think of it as stewardship. As Dougie MacLean says, "You cannot own the land. The land, it owns you." It's actually more akin to a marriage than an owner/object relationship.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Bernard
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 08:05 PM

It has been a long time since I could answer that question...

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 09:20 PM

my kayak and my digital camera....

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 11:18 PM

BWL--I agree with your sentiment about the land on which you live. Mine hasn't been hit by hurricanes in the last few years like yours has, so it has been a little less work, though with a drought over the last two years I have had to work to it moist enough for the pooches out back and to keep my xeriscape from blowing away.

I love the adjacent prairie and woods and creek at the bottom of the back yard--we actually saw a kingfisher hanging on a wire over the creek this week! With the birds and critters that choose to live here or pass through, we find ourselves rich with the experiences of seeing them on occasion.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Firecat
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 04:00 PM

My family, my best friends, butterflies, cats, Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, music...

All different types of love though...

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: leprechaun
Date: 29 Dec 06 - 01:51 AM

The little beads of excitement that pulse out of the alveoli in my lungs every time I take a deep breath of fresh Oregon air.

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Epona
Date: 29 Dec 06 - 08:27 AM

Ahh, Oregon is beautiful! That's a good one...

E

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: kendall
Date: 29 Dec 06 - 08:37 AM

I love my wife, and I love my antique car. However, they require a whole different approach!

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 05:17 AM

This thread...refresh

Subject: RE: BS: So what do you love? Really love?
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 04:38 PM

I LIKE Oregon air but I LOVE Alaska air. OK? *G* In southeast Alaska it feels like you can draw in the air down to your toes. Not even kidding.

Last night I dreamt that a person, after drinking a glass of water at my sink, said "Now THAT is wonderful water."

And I said, That's just what I was thinking when I had a glass, Now THAT is sweet water.



Sometimes I do waste my dreams. Other times I don't.