150 Favorite Things

1. Love Like There’s No Tomorrow by The War and Treaty

2. Factfulness

3. Maps

4. Map-based board games: Ticket to Ride, Catan, Pandemic… not Risk

5. Powell’s City of Books

6. Baymax

7. Growing Up by Run River North

8. My Osprey AETHER Backpack (And the POCO AG version for carrying a baby around)

9. Justin Bonello’s Cookbooks

10. Just Mercy/Bryan Stevenson/The Equal Justice Initiative

11. Improv

12. Cape Town

13. Xiao Long Bao 

14. Salar de Uyuni

15. Iceland

16. Baobab trees

17. Psych

18. Maple Trees

19. Boxers & Saints

20. A Great Big Story

21. The National & St. Vincent’s cover of Sleep All Summer

22. Marylinne Robinson’s Gilead 

23. Great Pyrenees

24. Up

25. Brad Montague’s story about a balloon

26. Manifesto: Mad Farmer’s Liberation Front by Wendell Berry

27. Reforestation 

28. Café du Monde in New Orleans

29. The Pacific Northwest

30. Kim’s Convenience

31. These San Diego Breweries: Modern Times, Second Chance, Belching Beaver

32. The Portland Timbers

33. Yosemite National Park

34. Mezcal

35. The Big Sick

36. Plant With Purpose

37. The Creative Pep Talk Podcast

38. Geography Quizzes on Sporcle. Especially this one, this one, and this one.

39. Good Eats

40. The Patagonia Nanopuff Jacket

41. Noah and the Whale

42. Codenames

43. Alpacas

44. Ethiopia

45. Procreate

46. Yasmin Newman’s 7,000 Islands

47. Ben Howard’s Old Pine. And the rest of his Every Kingdom album.

48. Trevor Noah

49. Jia Jiang’s TED Talk

50. Gallant’s cover of Sufjan Stevens’ Blue Bucket of Gold

51. The Swedish Chef

52. Pub Trivia

53. Kevin Love’s article: Everyone Is Going Through Something

54. Pixar’s Recipe for Good Storytelling

55. Arrival

56. Patagonia. The place, but the brand is nice too.

57. Thomas Merton

58. The Children of Blood and Bone series

59. Nikkolas Smith’s illustrations

60. Mitch Hedberg

61. Pop Chart Co.

62. Ignatian Spirituality

63. Italy

64. Mostra Coffee in San Diego

65. The Vox Borders series

66. My Ice Cream Trinity: Salt & Straw, Jeni’s, McConnell’s

67. Akimbo

68. Liberty in North Korea

69. Amsterdam

70. Shea Serrano’s Books

71. Growlithe

72. A Map of Salt And Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

73. Malaysian Food

74. Andrew McCutchen

75. Oatmilk… particularly Planet Oat

76. Dunbar’s Number

77. Vampire Weekend

78. Desmond Tutu

79. Chinese Catholic Art

80. Dee Gordon’s home run after Jose Fernandez’s death

81. Enneagram 8s. (I’m a 7, but I think healthy 8s are my favorite)

82. Project Drawdown

83. Mangoes. Mango Sticky Rice. This café in San Diego called MNGO.

84. The Angelika Film Centre

85. This guide to the depths of the ocean

86. Vermont

87. Pho

88. Chobe National Park

89. El Camino de Santiago (bucket list item for sure)

90. Father Greg Boyle / Homeboy Industries / Tattoos on the Heart

91. In Exile by Thrice

92. Coco

93. The Canon M50 mirrorless camera

94. The World Cup

95. Jane Goodall

96. Dan Harmon’s Story Circle (The Hero’s Journey, basically)

97. Blue Star Donuts in Portland

98. This Philosophical Dichotomy Test

99. The Philadelphia Phillies

100. Commonplace Books in Oklahoma City

101. Yerba Mate

102. This letter from John Steinbeck to his lovesick teenage son.

103. The Book of Common Prayer

104. Montreal

105. New Zealand

106. Pico Iyer’s TED Talk

107. Dave Chang (His podcast, Ugly Delicious, and Breakfast Lunch & Dinner)

108. Pre-SNL stuff from The Lonely Island

109. If the world were 100 people

110. The Dissect Podcast; especially their Kendrick Lamar seasons

111. Ken Griffey Jr. & Ichiro

112. The Tick

113. The Skinny Pancake in Montpelier

114. Public Speaking

115. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

116. Leland Melvin

117. Sufjan Stevens

118. Dwayne Wade (and this commercial celebrating his retirement)

119. This list of 100* ideas from the worlds of philosophy, sociology, economics, and psychology

120. The Oregon Ducks

121. Preemptive Love Coalition

122. The UNESCO Cities of Gastronomy

123. Boyhood

124. Pok Pok Drinking Vinegar

125. The Good Newspaper

126. Pizzeria Magnifica in Rome (arugula, bresola, & burratta pizza)

127. Jurassic 5

128. James Clear (Great on Twitter, via Newsletter, and Atomic Habits)

129. Beyond by Leon Bridges

130. Travel Is No Cure For The Mind by More to That (and this response by Trevor Huffman)

131. Roy Halladay

132. Maptia

133. One Tree Planted

134. CreativeMornings

135. Pop Pie Co. in San Diego

136. Large live-edge dining tables

137. Reconciliation stories from Rwanda

138. What Huston Smith had to say about God after spending his 97 years on Earth studying its major religions: We’re in good hands

139. Surprise Yourself by Jack Garratt (and its music video)

140. Philippine Eagles

141. RIP: A Remix Manifesto

142. These African culture emojis

143. That thing Ira Glass said about taste and creativity

144. The KBO (Korean Baseball) & NPL (Japanese Baseball)

145. Chopped

146. The Interfaith Rainforest Initiative

147. The Sierra Nevadas

148. North Cack by G. Yamazawa (for running, workouts, & such)

149. 21 Types of Content We Crave

150. Discovering good international films