- feeling moved by the speech of a spiritual leader, like the Dalai Lama
- dark mahogany walls
- glasses
- exhaling deeply for a more effective inhale
- slicked-back post-shower hair
- asking a child to sing you a song
- drinking coffee out of a paper cup with a straw
- when the cats and I are a community
- the teeming floor of a rain forest
- trying karate