"...I know no other way..." *

Ten Eleven things I love:

1. Songs about Mary the mother of God

2. Rhodesian memoirs

3. Anything about the Chilean coup of 1973

4. Pablo Neruda/Juan Ramon Jimenez/Rainer Maria Rilke

5. Missionary stories and missionary kids

6. Realistic and romantic science fiction

7. The Romantic Era

8. Modern folk music

9. Pictures of beautiful tattoos

10. Chocolate soy ice cream, chopped new banana, and natural creamy peanut butter

11. Thrift blogs

Perhaps I should have a series of posts where I outline my love of these things.

*Note: The title of this post is from Neruda's 17^th Sonnet. The whole section goes like this:

Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde,

te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo: 

así te amo porque no sé amar de otra manera

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.

I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;

so I love you because I know no other way