List of a few things that make me happy (in no order and far from exhaustive):

1) Luna
2) Sarah, Liz, Rachael, Gregorio, and Ron
3) Ray
4) My extended family
5) Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Handel and Haydn
6) Birdsong
7) The Orange Grove and the smell of orange blossoms
8) My friends
9) My faith
10) Edward Weston’s photography
11) The Getty Museum, LACMA, and MOCA
12) The Pacific
13) The desert
14) Texas
15) Our Victorian in Texas
16) The big Texas sky
17) Bluebonnets
18) St. Thomas the Apostle Anglican Church, Hollywood
19) Peach cobbler
20) Barbeque
21) My students
22) Fresh avocadoes from our trees
23) Fresh kale from our garden
24) The LA Phil
25) Reading everything I can lay my hands on
26) Writing both short stories, novels, and creative non-fiction
27) F. Scott Fitzgerald Steinbeck, Hemingway, Stegner, Hawthorne, Kesey, Twain, Shakespeare, Elmore Leonard, John Rechy, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Barbara Kingsolver, Annie LaMott, Amy Tan, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margaret Atwood, The Bronte sisters, and more and more and more.
28) Spring
29) Hiking
30) Laughing
31) An excellent movie, play, musical or ballet
32) Travel
33) Lemon curd
34) Paris and the Amalfi Coast
35) Mountains
36) Swimming
37) Choral music and Gregorian Chants
38) Learning
39) Honey-sweetened cakes and cookies
40) My ability to focus
41) More more more