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How about you? Care to give it a try? It’s something that belongs in my “likes” list – responses from readers.Ĭhuck Haga had a long career at the Grand Forks Herald and the Minneapolis Star Tribune before retiring in 2013. Things I dislike: Peas, the gray mushy kind they served in hot lunch when I was a boy. However, rain is less common during the spring, so this is a good time to be outdoors. Because this is a reasonably mild season, temperatures tend to dip at night but warm up (sometimes to 25 degrees Celsius) during the day. A child’s “Hi, Grandpa!” A leather pouch of marbles, with a big steelie. In Austria, spring falls between March and June. Rubies and emeralds, even if only seen behind locked glass. The night sky outside a village in West Africa. Beethoven’s “Pastoral Symphony.” Heavy bond paper. The Temptations’ “My Girl.” Cookies like my mom’s. A Strauss waltz by the Vienna Philharmonic.

Norwegian goat cheese on heavy bread with raspberry jam. A shiny red and white 1955 Buick Special. The sound of a well struck key on an Underwood typewriter.

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More things I like: A full moon shining through wispy clouds and the mesh top of my tent. A voice on the phone: “It’s me.” Gene Tierney. So, here’s my list, quite random and, again, featuring the whimsical and relatively insignificant alongside the heavy and vital. As to her dislikes, I’d challenge her on swimming, the taste of licorice, Robert Frost writing letters and even cigars – I quit smoking them myself long ago, but if I catch a whiff of a good cigar outdoors it reminds me instantly of my father. But I can do without sushi, tequila and Louis XIII furniture, which I suspect is out of my price range anyway. I could adopt much of Sontag’s lists – I do like sunsets, the smell of newly mown grass, and the music of Bach. “Things I dislike: sleeping in an apartment alone, cold weather, couples, football games, swimming, anchovies, mustaches, cats, umbrellas, being photographed, the taste of licorice, washing my hair (or having it washed), wearing a wristwatch, giving a lecture, cigars, writing letters, taking showers, Robert Frost, German food.” “Things I like: fires, Venice, tequila, sunsets, babies, silent films, heights, coarse salt, top hats, large longhaired dogs, ship models, cinnamon, goose down quilts, pocket watches, the smell of newly mown grass, linen, Bach, Louis XIII furniture, sushi, microscopes, large rooms, boots, drinking water, maple sugar candy. They include items from the mundane to the profound. There is little order or reason to her lists. She had made a list of things she liked and another list of things she didn’t like.

I started down this rabbit hole the other day because the New York Times carried a piece about the American writer, philosopher and political activist Susan Sontag, who died in 2004. It would help them to know me better, perhaps. I’ve often sat alone and begun compiling a mental list of things I like, thinking I might like to write it down and share it with certain people.

March weather in vienna