These are a few of my favorite things, raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens...oh, no, those are favorites of Rodgers and Hammerstein, but everybody has favorites and mine are listed below. The two leisure activities I enjoy most are travel and photography (and I have to agree with the late American photographer Diane Arbus who said, “My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.”). Augustine purportedly said, “The world is a book, and those who do not travel have read only the first page,” and whether he said it or not, I agree.
FAVORITE CHRISTIAN WRITER: C.S. Lewis
FAVORITE NOVELIST: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
FAVORITE THEOLOGIAN: Hans Urs Von Balthasar
FAVORITE ACTRESS: Shirley MacLaine / Amy Adams
FAVORITE ACTOR: Robert DiNiro
FAVORITE MOVIE: Casablanca / Big Fish
FAVORITE U.S. CITY: New Orleans (with San Antonio as a close second)
FAVORITE FOREIGN LAND: Spain
FAVORITE COLOR: Black
FAVORITE SINGER-SONGWRITER: Bob Dylan
FAVORITE COUNTRY SINGER: Willie (of course)
FAVORITE CLASSICAL COMPOSITION: Beethoven’s 6th (Pastoral)
FAVORITE FOOD: Squirrel with rice and gravy
FAVORITE WINE: Any good Ribera del Duero from Spain
FAVORITE CIGAR: Habana Romeo & Julieta Churchill