If you have not yet experienced the calming, peaceful feeling of zen from summoning a calming manatee from a website found at, surprisingly enough, calmingmanatee.com, you should totally try it out. I love this site. It’s humorous and just one click gives me a little pick-me-up. There are, also, other calming things in my life, and this post is sort of the yang (or the yin?) to my post titled 14 Irritants.
- sleeping babies
- lullabies
- afternoon thunderstorms (sort of a paradox, but…yeah)
- couches
- blankets
- pillows
- purring cat
- silence
- shushing ocean
- velour sweatpants
- terrycloth robe
- best friend’s voice
- neck rub from husband
- Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food
- flannel sheets
- books
- The BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice
- DID I MENTION SILENCE!!!
What do you find soothing?
Beth Hull 
You pulled me in with the photo of phish food ice cream…
Hee hee, and guess what I found in the freezer after lunchtime? My husband loves me. And obviously doesn’t care about my (nonexistent) waistline.
What about listening to a little Carpenters?
Calming for some, perhaps…crazymaking for others! 🙂
I’ve been filling my silence with music lately. Some stranger stuff, actually.
Oh, really, ^H? Such as…?
Numbers 7 and 16. Except when purring cat starts looking for food and puts her litter-box paws on your face. 🙂
Yuck. And agreed. (Still thinking, “Ewwww….”)
Oh! Phish Food! Yes! Thank you! And the lack of exclamation points in my writing. Very calming! Oops! Also Fleet Foxes. And Beethoven’s 3rd, in which I see horses leaping over fences in manner of counting sheep.
I can stand to lose a few exclamation points, too! But sometimes it’s so extremely fun to go overboard. (!!!!!!!!!!)
Aw, so sweet. For me, silence in which to read is calming. An empty house. As for Ben & Jerry’s flavors, I’d say Chunky Monkey and Coffee Heath Bar Crunch. Yummmmmm!
Ooh, Coffee Heath Bar Crunch is another of my favorites!
Also, yes, an empty house – because it leads to that silence I so cherish (unless the neighbor’s dogs are barking…but I’m not thinking about that because it is NOT calming).
Like this so much, I’m inspired to make my own list. . .
I hope you share it so I can read it, too!