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Practicing gratitude, creativity, and critical thinking by writing about things we like and why we like them.

5 Things I Liked About Reading the Book “Be Water, My Friend”
“All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.”
— Heraclitus

5 Things I Like About Playing Music Live in Honor of this Saturday’s Gig
“For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless ... Meaning, the higher the chance you can fall down in public, the more value the culture places on what you do. Unlike, say, a writer or a painter, when you’re onstage you can’t hide from other people, or from yourself either.”
― Kim Gordon

5 Greeting Cards I Like that I Made for Our First Friday Art Show
“To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.” —Roger Ebert

5 Things I Like About Going to the Movies Alone
“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.” ― Amy Sedaris

5 Things I Like About Having a Lot of Hobbies
“I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was ... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.” — Cormac McCarthy

5 Things I Like About My Mom’s Job at Trader Joe’s
“I like Trader Joe’s ham and glazed onion tart.” — Timothée Chalamet

7 Things I Like About the Boston Celtics that Have Nothing to Do With Basketball
“I bleed green.” — Kevin Garnett

5 Things I Like About Myself
“Ain’t nobody dope as me; I’m just so fresh so clean.” — OutKast


5 Things I Like About this New Uncommon Practice Pilates Brand
“By doing Pilates, it helps me stay fit and young. Now, I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.” –Hugh Grant

5 Things I Like About Emily Blunt in Honor of Her New Movie The Fall Guy
“In the streets I can greet ya, about blunts I teach ya.” –Nas

5 Things I Like About This New Lola Red Brand
“If you’re brave enough to let us in, you’ll never want to let us out.” –Lola Red

5 Things I Like That I Made for Our Upcoming Art Show
“To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.” –Mark Twain

5 Things I Like About This New Kacey Musgraves Song
“When something comes to my brain, I don’t ignore it. You never know what it’s going to turn into.” –Kacey Musgraves

5 Things I Like About Working with Kelly
"We're in a relationship like anybody, so we have the occasional dust-up, but it comes with any marriage, and I think that working together and being collaborators probably just improves our powers of compromise." –Nick Offerman

6 Movie Previews I Like Right Now (April 2024)
"We come to this place for magic." –Nicole Kidman

5 Things I Like About this Article from My High School Newspaper About My Old Band
"Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul." –Plato

5 Things I Liked About Competing in a Short-Story Writing Battle
"This guy don’t wanna battle, he’s shook. Cause ain’t no such things as halfway crooks.” —B-Rabbit

5 Things I Like About an Awe Walk Through Denver’s RiNo Neighborhood
"If you dont stop to smell the roses every once in a while, you could miss it." —Ferris Bueller

5 Things I Like About When NBA Reporter Zach Lowe Talks Branding
"These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it." —Charles Barkley