LJ Interests meme results

chocolate:
Needs no explanation, I think.
dancing:
Music goes in, movement comes out. It's like magic. And that quiet space beneath the music where all motion is externalized and everything inside is still? That's even more like magic.
gardening:
It's the very reverse of power-trippy, knowing that the container garden on the back balcony lives or dies by my ability to take care of it. Once you've killed ten pounds of living plants by forgetting to water for only two days, you understand something important of the fragility of the world. There's a precarious balance that governs complicated systems, and the responsible gardener makes sure to know as many of those variables as can be known and plan for them. If any political figure was once a gardener, they have my confidence immediately.
icons:
I can't explain why I like viewing, making, and deconstructing icons. I just think it's ginchy.
making mead:
Because it's bloody well MEAD!!!!
mythology:
Stories tell children what to be prepared for, and they tell religions what to be on the lookout for. Stories tell cultures where they come from. Children, culture, and religiospirituality are important to me, so their defining precursor is important to me.
reading everything:
If I don't keep my brain slow and over-fed with reading it starts working. The more it works, the slower and more dull the world seems in comparison. The potential for danger lurks within my boredom.
slow jazz:
Because I can't dance ALL the time. Sometimes I have to breathe, and sing, and be slow. Ella, Etta, you are my mammas, and my heroes.
terry pratchett:
I love Terry Pratchett and wish for him to live long enough to run out of ideas to write. His brand of snarky, non-malicious humor is something that the world would be a lot worse off without.
yoga:
I like yoga and all practicable movement therapies because there's nothing that's more healing to your body than letting it be your body, and it defines itself through movement. Allowing your body to experience the full range of it's possible motions is like resetting all the switches back to baseline. And the baseline is health.