learning how to manage your own stress

learning how to open your heart to others

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the Ballets Russes, New York City Ballet, the Royal Ballet, and Royal Danish Ballet

the Benesh ballet notation of the positions of dancers' hands and feet

operas with ballet

faithfully using your season tickets to the ballet and basketball

flying to another city for an evening of glamour and romance, like in the movie Pretty Woman

in autumn, listening to the leaves and meditating on the bounty of nature's gifts

batik, block printing, book binding, calligraphy, candle making, carpentry, cartooning, carving, ceramics, crocheting, découpage, doodling, dough art, embroidery, enameling, etching, fabric painting, jewelry making, knitting, leather-working

a North Pole walkabout, barbecue, and quick plunge into the Arctic Sea, with champagne flowing, dancing and celebrating

visiting Monterey Bay Aquarium when they feed the fish

the category of canapés - small pieces of bread or crackers with various toppings

food eaten to pique the appetite or to moderate hunger, especially that stimulated by drink

the guardian spirits of Native Americans

spiritual beings on a human journey

Legoland in England with over 35 million colored bricks creating London Bridge

being stopped at a toad crossing on a British road

ribs and white bread where the bands are lively and the beer is cold

a hot afternoon with the smell of honeysuckle all down the street

Italian soda

items you give as housewarming gifts

Italian loafers

Italian journals too beautiful to write in

itinerant coffee vendors

Italian grocers

Italian kitchens

Italian red wine and breadsticks

Italian-seasoned chicken

Italian waffle-weave bath towels

items you wish you could have saved from your childhood

itching after playing in the snow

Italian ice stores

Italian ice-cream spoons

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966 TV show)

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature! (Chiffon margarine ad)

art journal idea: whimsical creatures, inventing and illustrating new animals

extinct creatures you would like to see

being in the presence of powerful yet gentle creatures

fairylike creatures

elflike creatures

history-making creatures

moon creatures

dreams of meeting creatures from the moon

snuggling up with gentle creatures

a hideout for cowboys, pirates, and other magical creatures

creatures you would include on a carousel of your own design

enjoying a pet rabbit or any small, gentle, furry creature

creature comforts

Pikachu, the famous yellow Pokemon creature

Creature Comforts animation

the boat, a living creature amidst wind and water

catching a creature in its quiet moment

magnificent, rich colors

the magnificent natural backdrop of the mountains

magnificent "cool"

winter in control, magnificent and deadly

magnificent closets

magnificent natural gardens with a cascading stream

a magnificent rainbow

magnificent nighttime views across the water

magnificent muffins

a drive through long stretches of magnificent country

magnificent tulip trees

a simple and magnificent stillness, brooding like genius

a magnificent vantage for catching the sunset

magnificent flowers

a magnificent, wide-awake sun bursting through a window

a magnificent vision that is valid for centuries

forgetting what time it is

a childlike ability to see the world as it is

whatever the Gross National Product is

the better you feel, the better life is

bagel sandwiches, especially the bite where the hole is

wrapping a gift to make it look like something other than what it is

not shaking hands when you are sick or someone else is

how energetic punk music is

seeing how confident and brave a 14-year-old is

when everything is fine right now the way it is

a commercial so good that you feel you have to go right out and get whatever the thing is

noticing how magical water is

asking a librarian what his or her favorite book is

committing to finishing a drawing, no matter how bad it is

A is to B as C is to D

ribs and white bread where the bands are lively and the beer is cold

midnight birthday suppers

midnight movies

midnight-dark chocolate

midnight blue

midnight walks

midnight snack shopping

midnight cookie baking

midnight milk and crackers

midnight munchies

a place where there is no electricity after midnight

when TV went off the air at midnight

drinks on the roof at midnight

TV static at midnight

coming out of a movie theatre at midnight

Halloween at midnight

cuddling with your lover on a midnight sleigh ride

spending a summer in the Land of the Midnight Sun

meeting at an all-night diner for a midnight snack

midnight sea

midnight milk and cookies

midnight supper on a lake or a beach

midnight mischief

midnight toasts and kisses

coals on the hearth of a winter midnight

the midnight hungries

the sea at London, near midnight

a midnight snack at a truck stop

fireworks at midnight

stars at midnight

ice skating at midnight

midnight buffets

midnight napping instead of sleeping

midnight motorcycle rides

midnight bowling

midnight swimming

indigo, midnight, cornflower, and cobalt blues

an intimate midnight picnic

falling stars after midnight

midnight phone calls

the midnight kiss

calling a friend to go for a bike ride together at midnight

stringing popcorn, reading Dickens, ice skating at midnight

planning a hot summer midnight

planting a midnight summer garden

shared midnight snacks

eating butterscotch pudding at midnight

midnight snacks

stars and midnight and soft prayers whispered in the dark

cocoa at midnight

a deserted beach at midnight

horse-and-carriage rides, midnight waltzes, and sumptuous meals

a midnight picnic with the seals

champagne at midnight

a teenager who comes home at midnight instead of 2-3 AM

colors of the 64-crayon box: carnation pink, salmon, lavender, thistle, orchid, periwinkle, blue-violet, violet, plum, magenta, red, maroon, violet-red, red-violet, mulberry, brick red, orange-red, red-orange, melon, orange, burnt orange, yellow-orange, apricot, peach, maize, goldenrod, orange-yellow, lemon yellow, yellow, yellow-green, green-yellow, spring green, sea green, green, olive green, pine green, forest green, blue-green, green-blue, turquoise blue, aquamarine, sky blue, navy blue, cornflower blue, cadet blue, midnight blue, blue, blue-gray, violet-blue, raw sienna, sepia, bittersweet, raw umber, brown, tan, burnt sienna, mahogany, Indian red, copper, silver, gold, gray, white, black

suppers at midnight

Crayola's Prussian blue becoming midnight blue

Mozart for Meditation, Mozart for Your Mind, Mozart for the Morning Commute, Mozart on the Menu, Mozart for Morning Coffee, Mozart at Midnight (albums)

an empty street at midnight

coffee and pastry

warm-from-the-oven pastries that start off the day

petal soft pastels

bedrooms in pastel shades with Louis XVI furnishings

when you squirt the toothpaste and it comes out the other end

a unit of toothpaste for a toothbrush

using homemade toothpaste

sketching with pastel crayons

having teeth like people on toothpaste commercials

bland foods: broth, cake, cooked cereal, cookie, cracker, egg, Jell-O, marshmallows, milk, pasta, pie, plain rice, potato, pudding, soft banana

a back-to-nature pastime for hardy open-air lovers

brunch of eggs, pancakes/waffles, sausages, bacon, ham, fruits, pastries, salad

pastel-colored houses nestled among lush greenery

pastel paper

pastel painting

pastel butter mints

pastries with fruit

pastry cooks

pastel pencils or sticks

pastel-colored erasers

pastel stained-glass windows

pastel sketches

pasta dinner from a box

pastries of fruit, butter, and cream

pasting ticket stubs into a scrapbook

pastel-colored lightbulbs, relaxing music, and glasses of cream sherry or port

pastry carts

pastel erasers in pink, yellow, blue, peach, and green

pastel sketches of children

pastel-colored houses

pastel colors

pastel love

pastel candy mints in sterling silver bowls

pasting quotes, dreams, pics into a journal

pastel skies

past, present, future

a story of childhood past

retro-happiness, happiness about the past

being tethered to your evolutionary past

staying up past your bedtime

the past is a memory, the future is a fantasy

getting to stay up past bedtime

cooking classes in Paris

charming vignettes of Paris

taking a cooking class while in Paris

seeing Paris

the pastry and bread shop in every Paris neighborhood

the warm glow of a Paris café

learning French cooking in Paris

a scrapbook from Paris

a visit to Paris

Paris in the rain

quiet corners of Paris

painting in a tiny attic in Paris

going to Paris for the cheese and San Francisco for the sourdough