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My home town

1.      I love that I live in a residential neighborhood

2.      I love that nonetheless, I am within 7 minutes of 9 major highways

3.      And near NYC

4.      I love that I can get to the ocean

5.      I love that I can get to the sound

6.      I love that I can get to the bay

7.      I love that I can get to the river

8.      I love that I can get to lakes

9.      I love that I can get to the mountains

10.   I love that I have low taxes

11.   I love that there is a park near me

12.   I love that there are lots of trees around

13.   But services too

14.   Many private houses

15.   Many apartments

16.   Private schools

17.   Public schools

18.   I love that we have a fire department

19.   I love that we have a police department

20.   I love that we have a parks department

21.   I love that my mom gets good health care plan because father worked for them (she pays but still)

22.   I love that we have movie theaters

23.   And 2 outdoor malls!

24.   And one indoor mall

25.   And a book store

26.   And restaurants

27.   And diners

28.   And supermarkets

29.   And so nearby, a Trader Joe’s

30.   And so nearby, a health food store

31.   And banks

32.   And churches

33.   And temples

34.   And nearby, a mosque

35.   And hospitals

36.   And ambulance service

37.   And snow removal

38.   And garbage removal!

39.   And recycling removal!

40.   And good tap water as these things go

41.   And cable service

42.   And good cell phone reception

43.   And no street crime right where I live

44.   And roads (although I am at heart a naturalist, I do appreciate all these conveniences!)

45.   I love that we have libraries

46.   I love that we have free concerts at the library

47.   And in the adjoining town too

48.   I love that in a nearby town we have live theater

49.   I love that I can easily get to New York City

50.   To Lincoln Center

51.   To the Met (museum)

52.   To MOMA

53.   To the Museum of Natural History

54.   To other museums

55.   And colleges

56.   And universities

57.   My own town has a planetarium

58.   And my malls do not have obnoxious perfume people spraying us and obnoxious changing bulletin board electronic things

59.   I love the VARIETY of trees where I live

60.   And our power company

61.   I love that I have gas/hot water heat in my house

62.   I love that we have an Apple store in my town

63.   And plenty of places to walk safely

64.   And plenty of people with “pets.”

65.   I love that I can buy yarn nearby too

66.   And there are nature parks

67.   And historical preservations

68.   And pools

69.   And even a small water park

70.   And lakes (to look at – not for swimming)

71.   I can get to many beaches from where I live

72.   In my town there are piano teachers

73.   There are tutors

74.   There are readers

75.   And knitters

76.   And walkers

77.   There is a 10 dollar a month gym maybe 2 miles from my house

78.   There are even dance studios!

79.   There are people of different ethnicities

80.   Relgions

81.   Races

82.   Sexual identities

83.   Languages

84.   There are Italian restaurants

85.   And Korean

86.   And Japanese

87.   And Thai

88.   And Chinese

89.   And Mexican

90.   Expensive and inexpensive

91.   There is lovely walking at the riverfront

92.   There is a great bike path at my park (“my” park lol: )

93.   There is a train station

94.   And another nearby

95.   There is Dunkin Donuts coffee

96.   And Green Mountain coffee

97.   And 7-11 coffee

98.   TWO local supermarkets THAT I KNOW OF have lots of vegan friendly foods (packages – obviously all fruits veggies nuts real whole grains and seeds are vegan lol)

99.   There are people of various education levels

100. There are community programs for ongoing ed

101. J and I even took ballroom dancing! For like 10 dollars a session!

New Category

People I Love

1.      MA

2.      ML

3.      M

4.      St

5.      My mother

6.      My (deceased) father

7.      A.

8.      L

9.      My principal

10.   J

11.   Our school psychologist

12.   My teammate

13.   My other teammate

14.   My aide

15.   Each of my 10 students. I will only list initials here now. Ca

16.   No

17.   T

18.   M

19.   B

20.   R

21.   Ja

22.   J

23.   S

24.   D

25.   Me

26.   Ma

27.   Ja

28.   Jo

29.   Ro

30.   Ry

31.   A

32.   H

33.   S

34.   D

35.   My cousin P, who used to babysit when we were little

36.   The nice times I’ve had with my sister

37.   Sa

38.   Ka

39.   Me

40.   My book club people: St

41.   And C

42.   And Je

43.   And L

44.   And K

45.   And other K

46.   My principal

47.   My teacher in charge

48.   Ji

49.   The nice times I had with S and Jo

50.   And with Jo and B and Ja and P etc (L’s friends)

51.   Teachers near me N

52.   And G

53.   And B

54.   Our LRC teacher

55.   My Aunt L (deceased)

56.   Thich Nhat Hanh

57.   Jesus

58.   My maternal grandmother

59.   My maternal grandfather

60.   My paternal grandmother

61.   My paternal grandfather

62.   My Aunt R (all of these deceased)

63.   My Uncle C

64.   My aunt J

65.   My uncle G

66.   My aunt M

67.   My aunt Jo!

68.   My couin S

69.   My cousin Jo

70.   My cousin K

71.   Her partner C

72.   My neigher next door

73.   My neighbor across the street

74.   My neighbor 3 houses up

75.   My neighbor 4 houses up

76.   My dear old friend Ch

77.   Her son M

78.   MA’ daughter

79.   And her son

80.   I love every piano student I’ve taught

81.   And every school student too

82.   And the kids from the psychiatric hospital where I worked

83.   And M’s friend J

84.   And T at school

85.   And also at school V

86.   And D

87.   And J

88.   And D

89.   And A

90.   And Mo in LRC

91.   And Ma

92.   And Ka

93.   And C!

94.   And A!

95.   And P!

96.   And former Ma

97.   And other former Ma

98.   My high school English teacher

99.   And humanities teacher

100. And My college French teacher the first one

101. And my college psych teacher

102. And other one too

103. The UN diplomat who taught me in Master’s class

104. My first prinicipal as a teacher

105. And my 2^nd

106. And my first where I am now

107. And second

108. And third

109. K.G. from first job

110. E.H. from piano

111. J’s mother and all those caring things she did for me

112. His father and his jokes and plums nad Tang for me aww

113. E and her example in caring for animals

114. The woman who came here to care for birds

115. And the other woman who did also

116. Phillipa Gregory

117. Leo Buscaglia

118. Rhonda Byrnes

119. Oprah

120. Steve Jobs

121. Galileo

122. Saint Teresa Avilla

123. St John of the Cross

124. St Bernadette

125. Mary the Blessed Mother

126. Tom O’Hordan

127. Bernie and his little sanctuary type place

128. Bill who came with the snakes for my class

129. The people at High Touch/High Tech

130. Peple who run women’s shelters like My Sister’s Place

131. Sponsor B

132. Sponsor L

133. People at first meeting I attended

134. Everyone in AlAnon

135. And Naranon

136. And OA

137. K

138. Ch

139. Mar

140. The chef on our honeymoon

141. The waitress on our honeymoon

142. The woman on the beach with the towels on our honeymoon

143. The guy at the motel at Cooperstown

144. The woman who gave us goodies for the inconvenience, at the Pocohos

145. All waitresses

146. All waiters

147. All food service employees

148. All honest people

149. All cheerful people

150. All people who laugh together with me

151. All people who are not mean

152. Buddha

153. All honest politicians

154. All faithful people

155. All loyal people

156. All people who don’t break confidences

157. All people who keep their word

158. People who help the less fortunate

159. People who help animals

160. Good architects

161. Good engineers

162. Teachers

163. Doctors

164. Lawyers who are not users

165. Honest judges

166. Good mental health workers

167. Nice people who work in stores

168. Garbagemen

169. Firemen

170. Policemen

171. Parents

172. Actors

173. Writers

174. Directors

175. Edison

176. Einstein

177. Newton

178. Plato

179. Aristotle

180. Emerson

181. Thoreoux

182. Poets

183. Emily Dickenson

184. Robert Louis Stevenson

185. E e Cummings

186. Dr Seuss

187. Environmentalists

188. PETA people (who don’t harass and break laws)

189. All sanctuary workers!!

190. People who give money to charities

191. People who give time to charities

192. People who tell when need be.

193. Like my brave cousin C who blew the whistle on some bad airplane stuff and it took great courage!

194. Good surgeons

195. My surgeons

196. Good anesthesiologists

197. My anesthesiologists

198. Good eye drs

199. My eye dr

200. All that my shrink has given to me

201. MA’s shrink

202. People who keep my water clean

203. Scientists

204. Musicians

205. YoYoMa

206. Nana Mouskouri

207. Peter Paul and Mary

208. Pete Seeger

209. Bob Dylan

210. Judy Collins

211. My mother’s aide M

212. My mother’s aide H

213. My mother’s aide K

214. My mother’s aide A

215. The dr who saved my mother

216. My sister’s help with that

217. The other dr too. How they didn’t give up!

218. J’s surgeon

219. My student’s mother who gave us that connection

220. The hospital who allowed us that private room and me to stay

221. Nice good nurses

222. Nice good hospital aides

223. J’s aunt B

224. J’s aunt T

225. Princess Diana

226. Elton John

227. Jane Oliver

228. Everyone – everyone – I met in England!

229. Painters (artists)

230. House painters

231. Handymen

232. Personal trainers (although I don’t have one)

233. Every Weight Watcher’s leader

234. Especially N

235. And Ja

236. And T

237. And the one whose name I can’t remember, Greek

238. The Spanish people at that picnic – they didn’t speak English and I don’t speak Spanish but we had such a nice time

239. Every child who has loved me

240. The people at the house with all the foster children when Ji and I were looking at houses

241. The hoir people with whom I sang

242. The people in all the plays I did

243. Ji’s family

244. J’s family

245. My large extended family growing up.

246. L who was so cruel to me then but has changed

247. Same with A

248. Jo still contacting me nicely

249. All my fb friends

250. Birdie!

251. Ej!

252. JJ!

253. Everyone who reads this blog

254. M, who colors and cuts my hair

255. And C, who washes it

256. And Fr, the owner ther who did my hair before London. AND when I was a teen although I’m sure HE doesn’t remember it! Lol

257. E, from whom Ji and I bought this house.

258. Her deceased husband V

259. Farmers

260. Meteorologists

261. Journalists

262. Newscasters

263. Sculptors

264. Sh, who gave me one of her pictures

265. MacKnight

266. Person who painted Pinky: Sir Thomas Lawrence

267. Victoria Holt

268. My fried for so long, C

269. and her husband J

270. and her second husband B

271. My mother’s friends when I was growing up, like C

272. And J

273. And M

274. And B

275. My friends when I was grwoing up. LikeJ

276. And M

277. And G

278. And R

279. And L

280. And Ja

281. And Ba

282. My current French teacher!

283. People who make good textbooks the authors

284. The compilers

285. The editors

286. The publishers

287. People who grow organic food!

288. People who don’t eat animals

289. People who don’t eat dairy

290. People who don’t eat eggs

291. People who don’t wear leather

292. John Robbins for his tremendous influence on me

293. People who put together health expos

294. People who design good cars

295. Honest car salespeople

296. God

297. Chopin

298. Mendelssohn

299. Rachmaninoff

300. Beethoven

301. Mozart

302. Bach

303. Schubert

304. George Crumb

305. Kandinsky

306. Georgia O’Keefe

307. Lee Krasner

308. People who design online jigsaw puzzles

309. Jane Wooster Scott

310. And the people who make jigsaw puzzles of her work

311. And of Kandinski’s work

312. Leonard Cohen

313. Sister Chân Không

314. All of Thich Nhat Hans’s monks and nuns

315. Especially the monk who helped me here

316. And the nun who helped me in London

317. The man from whom J bought my diamond

318. Everyone who owns a vegan restaurant

319. Everyone who cooks at a vegan restaurant

320. Everyone who runs a vegan restaurant

321. Everyone who works at a vegan restaurant

322. Everyone who write vegan cookbooks

323. People who do specialty orders for me

324. People who plant

325. People who do gardening with us at school

326. Landscapers

327. Gardeners

328. Furniture designers

329. Stucco color mixers (J was one)

330. People who exercise; they are an inspiration to me

331. People who do exercise DVDs

332. Callan Pinckney

333. Encouraging people

334. Pema Chedron

335. People who pray for others

336. Peopple who pray for me

337. Me. Wow. Me. I am lots of the things that I’ve listed here in appreciating others. Wowie : )

338. Pianists

339. Harpists

340. Floutists

341. All musicians

342. Conductors

343. Feltsman

344. MY being 7 degrees from Beethoven in my piano lineage: )

345. My first piano teacher, E.U

346. And my long term one R B

347. And my recent one, O

348. Youtube people who teach me so much

349. K.D. Lang

350. People who save children

351. My godmother

352. My godfather uncle F

353. People who reform, turn their lives around

354. People who help others to do that

355. Dentists

356. Dental hygienists

357. Secretaries

358. My high school boyfriend, G

359. Fb:Ma

360. Ka

361. K

362. D

363. And other Ma

364. CoDA people

365. Louise L. Hayes

366. Ellen Kreidman

367. People who bred doggie

368. Person from whom we got rescue doggie

369. Person from whom we got first doggie

370. Us as a couple, for saving 3 doggies!

1.      Opera singers especially children ones

2.      Ch

3.      Callan Pinckney

I am sure there are more! But I must get to work now! Or is just an excuse. If there are more that come to me, I will  add! But later. NEED to keep promise to self to make things better around here starting today!