Thursday, May 21, 2009

Bliss

bliss \ˈblis\
noun
1: complete happiness 2: paradise, heaven

Challenge: Write a five-item list of the things that bring you bliss.

  1. When an email reply crosses with a friend's and we are both saying the exact same weird, random or ridiculous thing at the exact same time but don’t realize until we’ve already hit send.
  2. Everything about "You've Got Mail" - Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, the Upper West Side, Christmastime, bouquets of sharpened pencils, "Fight! Fight to the death!"
  3. Strawberry shortcake at Pastis in the summer.
  4. When I'm walking outside in the city, and the weather's just right, and I know that I need the perfect song to be the soundtrack to the moment, so I scroll through my iPod... and I find it.
  5. The sound of the trumpeter playing the Battle Hymn before a Georgia football game.

What's your Bliss List?

4 comments:

April said...

AMEN for #5!!! Chills. Every. Time.

Mom said...

I don't know about the other 4 yet but #1 hands down is spending time with my girl! Love you.

Murph said...

#5 DEAD ON!!!! Never fails to bring chills!

Andrew said...

#5, agreed with the rest, Chills, along with the Larry Munson montage video that follows.

I'll have to work on my list, but must say I agree about You've Got Mail, WAY better than Harry/Sally. "152...years old..152...moles he's had removed from his face"