All of us want to live well.

What do I mean by well? Healthy, with meaning, honour, a sense of achievement, admiration, contentment, love?

What I mean is a combination of spiritual, ethical and material values.

In our busy lives we can all too easily fail to appreciate the beautiful, the ephemeral, with the constant pressures and demand of money, work and relationships.

This lens is my personal reminder of what is important (to me) in life.

Like many people I am attracted to lists; their brevity, the minimal effort required by the reader, the saving in that precious commodity, time.

You can tell a lot about a person by their ten favourite things.

Here are mine, in alphabetical order:

dogs (loveable, fidelity, humour)
football (beautiful, exciting, togetherness)
hugging (comforting, reassurance, connecting)
humans (inspiring, fascinating, mostly harmless)
scientific method (progressive, imaginative, rigorous)
snow (exciting, powdery, magical)
sunshine (warmth, caress, illumination)
trees (shade, colour, shelter)
technology (enabling, connecting, expansive)
wine (complex, flavoursome, relaxing)

Now, wouldn't all our lives be a lot worse without these things?