IN GENERAL
Models of Education ..
Sustainable Living Design ..
Architectural Design ..
Horsebackriding ..
Renaissance-style Fencing (not strip fencing)..
learning German ..
writing Haiku ..
silkscreen print making ..
acapella singing (alto) ..
a cup of really strong, smokey-flavored, black tea ..
LIFE!
BOOKS
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics ..
Fear & Trembling (Soren Kierkegaard) ..
Thought and Language (Lev Vygotsky) ..
Fides et Ratio (John Paul II) ..
Beowulf (not the movie!) ..
Grendel (John Gardner) ..
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase ..
Parrak the White Reindeer ..
The Little White Horse ..
nearly anything by G.K. Chesterton ..
JRR Tolkien’s works ..
In Praise of Shadows (Junichiro Tanizaki) ..
The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson) ..
Celestial Matters (Richard Garfinkle) ..
The Sparrow (Mary Doria Russell) ..
Little Men (Louisa May Alcott) ..
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)..
A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Dylan Thomas)
MUSIC
Wm. Byrd (1543 – 1623)..
Palestrina ..
Praetorius ..
Wagner ..
Stravinsky ..
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer ..
Apocalyptica ..
Queen ..
Aerosmith (Toys in the Attic)..
Beatles ..
Jethro Tull ..
Anonymous Four ..
Chanticleer ..
Ladysmith Black Mambazo ..
traditional Japanese music ..
Ofra Haza ..
The Passion of the Christ (soundtrack)
MOVIES
The Passion of the Christ ..
Zulu ..
Die Lebens des Anderes ..
Amelie ..
Gladiator ..
The African Queen ..
The Seventh Seal ..
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)..
Seven Samurai ..
Fantasia (Disney classic) ..
Ben-Hur ..
The Professional ..
Chronicles of Riddick ..
Fantastic Planet..
Bedazzled (1967)..
Raising Arizona ..
O, Brother, Where Art Thou ..
The Quiet Man ..
French Kiss ..
King of Hearts ..
A Christmas Carol (1951)..
It’s A Wonderful Life
No television whatsoever!