I'm not a classical music know-it-all, but Yo-Yo Ma's album 'Bach: The Cello Suites' is lovely. My favorites are 1, 3, and 6. Sometimes cello can range into melancholy, but it's the only string voice that really appeals to me - a very expressive instrument. It feels visceral and poignant. And Yo-Yo Ma is brilliant.

This flower is growing in a pot on my kitchen table. It's some kind of Clematis, and shoots vines out that you wrap around a little trellis thingy. I've learned not to put it next to other plants because it'll vine out and tangle up with them. Grabby plant.

"Laugh as much as you breathe, love as long as you live" - who said that? Kind of corny, but it's nice.