What enhances your life? art, music, food, love?

[tigereye]

For me, it is music, most of all. But I love art, as well, and feel very fortunate in the relationship I have with my so.

I just returned from a "punk re-union" of folks who were the early punks in our town. There was lots of music and it was so cool to see old friends and see what they are up to. There were many folks there who live all over the country, with their kids, with lovers, with friends, many enjoying midlife with a zest similar to the energy they gave the early DIY punk/new wave bands I loved.

It made me feel very fortunate and lucky to have been there at the time!

What or whom do you feel lucky to have encoutered in your life?

(yes, the late hour and espresso are making me very philosophical.) ;)

[Earth_First]

1. For me, it's work, moreover, the work that I do for a living...

I am a professional landscaper, which I find much satisfaction as a career option. I do not enjoy my job, I completely, wholeheartedly LOVE my job, which leads to a greater satisfaction in every other aspect of my life. I cannot tell you how many 9-5ers who absolutely loathe their jobs with a seething passion which leads to difficulties in many other aspects in their lives unfortunately.

[tigereye]

4. interesting

I like and feel challenged by my work and I feel it benefits others, but it's no longer my passion. ( well, maybe the parts of it that I have not yet explored.)

I think it is very good to feel as passionate about your work as I do.

[idgiehkt]

5. y'r right about that.

you can't be free of it if you hate your 9 to 5, it'll bleed over. That's really cool you like your job so much.I just decided to change my major at school cause I realized there's no way I can sit at a desk all day, I have to be up and moving around.

I worked for a landscaper once and it was a lot of fun but it also hurt my back...it's not an easy living like some things are. A friend of mine started her own business a few years ago and she's done really well, she started making really good money off the jump, compared to what we were making where we worked. But she didn't do any mowing, she just did all the other stuff landscapers do besides cut grass.

[tigereye]

8. I think people really need work that they love

work that challenges and intrigues them.

[idgiehkt]

13. I don't ever see me getting paid to do anything I love

I've pretty much given up on that. Right now I'm on what can I do that I don't completely and utterly hate and despise, like office work, or that doesn't wreck me so much I don't want to get out of bed, like vet/animal shelter stuff.

[leftofthedial]

2. music

food


looking for love

and looking







and looking

[LadyoftheRabbits]

3. Art and love...

Make the world go round. Sounds like you had a great time! I love nights like that :hi:

[tigereye]

6. I used to live in the clubs

and I have always played some sort of music from an early age. It was fun to introduce my 10 year old son to people whom we have known and loved and admired for many years. And it was cool to have them look at our child and see both of us....

and it was good to see how life experience mellows and broadens people. :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. I love philosophical threads, my dear tigereye!

What enhances my life?

I would say first, love.....

After that, then art/music........

I have a marvelous family......

And I have encountered some incredible folks right here in the Lounge....

Photography and music also add wonderfully to my life experiences.....

I feel so very fortunate in my life.......

Thank you for this wonderful thread!

[tigereye]

9. that is very nice

thank you, Peggy! I don't know if you read the NYT, but there was a great article today about 2 interesting photography shows - one with pix of Susan Sontag and images that reflect her work, and one of Warhol prints and things that inspired him. It is very interesting how what one chooses to photograph and how the shot is framed, really reflects the inner and outer worlds of the photographer.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Do you have a link for the NYT?

That article sounds really interesting.......

I know I like to take pics of some things, and not others.........

I've never thought much about why, though.......:hi:

[ForrestGump]

11. Love, above all

I think.

Not that I've had exactly a ton of it, and not that it can't hurt like hell (usually does, it seems), but it's the best I've ever felt.

Otherwise I can be fairly self-contained, and my life's enriched through a variety of experiences (not into doing exotic things solely for the sake of exoticism or some kind of short-attenntion-span obsession with novel things, but I have had a tendency to be into esoteric things that mean a lot to me) as well as through art (especially if you include as art such things as movies, books, etc) and music and, certainly, aspects of my various careers, martial arts, and various outlets for my creativity. Like I said, I am pretty happy by myself because most of these things I can do by myself or maybe with one other co-astronaut, but love's the one thing that doesn't work that way (hence the bogusness attendant to it being perhaps the best thing on the planet). My life feels pretty rich to me as it is, and has for most of my life except in one important respect and, when I get love right, it'll only get richer.

[Binka]

12. Travel and Tomatoes

Love them both and they keep me young and vibrant!