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As one faithful reader of this blog suggests that I don\u2019t like anything or anybody and all I do is rage and mutter and throw poo like some deranged chimpanzee in a cage, I thought you might like a list of my favorite things. \u2026Raindrops on roses and schnitzel with noodles brown paper packages tied up with strings girls\u00a0in white dresses with blue satin sashes snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes silver white winters that melt into springs these are a few of my favorite things\u2026<\/em>There now, Does that make everyone feel better?<\/p>\n

Seriously<\/strong>:\u00a0Here are some\u00a0in no particular order (and with no commas): Alison Benedict Madeleine Theodore Elias Maddy playing Debussy Quarr Abbey steak Brideshead Revisited Cherry pie Pride and Prejudice Ben Li and T serving Mass George Herbert\u00a0La Traviata Adam and Eve\u00a0TSEliot\u2019s Four Quartets South Carolina drive ins playing chess with Elias\u00a0The Chronicles of Narnia Bruges\u00a0Music of William Byrd Lord of the Rings Flannery O\u2019Conner Therese of Lisieux\u00a0Gangster movies Romanesque churches Mont St Michel Gregorian Chant Thomas More\u00a0psalm 27\u00a0pictures by Cezanne BB King Rachmaninov\u2019s Third Piano Concerto the Cowper Madonna St Benedict\u00a0\u00a0London my iPhone\u00a0Rievaux Abbey pictures by Vasnetsov Oxford country pubs in England Dante the Isle of Wight Chopin the gospel of Mark\u00a0Kings College Cambridge Ping pong with Theo\u00a0Ravenna Downside Abbey Rocinante on a summer day Chesterton red wine Chosatonga\u00a0my biretta France Dominicans Trollope\u00a0Rome\u00a0Shawshank Redemption\u00a0Maximillian Kolbe\u00a0fried shrimp\u00a0the Black Falconers\u00a0Benedict XVI Ephesians Roger Van der Weyden Choral Evensong soft French cheese Anna The Brothers Karamazov the South Downs poems of Elizabeth Jennings the Book of Revelation Alec Guiness<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry there were no professional athletes or politicians on the list, and if you didn\u2019t make the cut don\u2019t worry I still love you\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As one faithful reader of this blog suggests that I don\u2019t like anything or anybody and all I do is rage and mutter and throw poo like some deranged chimpanzee in a cage, I thought you might like a list of my favorite things. \u2026Raindrops on roses and schnitzel with noodles brown paper packages tied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nMy Favorite Things<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As one faithful reader of this blog suggests that I don't like anything or anybody and all I do is rage and mutter and throw poo like some deranged\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2009\/12\/my-favorite-things.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Favorite Things\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As one faithful reader of this blog suggests that I don't like anything or anybody and all I do is rage and mutter and throw poo like some deranged\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2009\/12\/my-favorite-things.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fr. 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