- Rain. In San Diego, it's beautiful, sunny, and 75-85˚ eight months out of the year. It's not that I don't appreciate living in one of the most wonderful climates in the world, but somehow, it makes me appreciate the beautiful, lively cleanliness of rain. It's been drizzling on and off all day today, for the first time in a long time, and sitting outside, breathing the crisp, clean air and watching the water fall is incredible and harmonious, somehow.

- My younger brother. We've only recently become close, but it's fascinating to talk to him, to see how alike we are and yet how different.

- Random kindness. Harmony. Despite the hatred we're currently drowning in, love and peace have not abandoned us, not yet.

- Johann Sebastien Bach. Mozart. Beethoven. Vivaldi.

- David Gilmour. John Lennon. Neil Young.