these are a few of my favorite things

1. Shmilsh.
2. Rainy season downpours.

3. A good fan.

4. Spanish. Dominican Spanish.
5. Breakfast in the campo = boiled yucca, pickled onions, fried salami, a tin cup of milk.
6. Guaguas, motos, carros públicos.

7. The Caribbean Sea. The way it looks – is – different every day from my window.
8. Rooftop yoga.

9. Rooftop (6th floor) gym.
10. Colmados.
11. La Zona Colonial and its walls, doors, windows, locks, churches, plazas, and church plazas.

12. Fresh pineapple. Fresh mango. Fresh papaya. Fresh fresh.

13. Caribe Tours.
14. (Shmilsh.)
15. My research. The way it looks – is – different every day.
16. Collecting /shells/coral/rocks/sea-polished glass/driftwood/.

17. Hammocks.
18. Queso de San Juan.
19. My communities.
20. Denbow at an excruciating volume (“yo quiero sapito, yo no quiero maco, maco, maco, yo no quiero maco!”).
21. Chickens.

22. Random fireworks.
23. Cooking curry and stir fry and Spanish tortillas in my kitchen. Getting a good bandera at a comedor. Being fed homemade Haitian-Dominican food in my kitchen.
24. Jugos naturales.
25. Living with a four-year-old.

26. Weekends not in Santo Domingo.
27. My name in Spanish.
28. Flocks of wild parakeets.