My Favorite Things
Personal preference list
A song from the 1959 musical *The Sound of Music*, listing pleasant images—raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles—as comfort against fear and sadness.
The phrase now evokes any personal inventory of beloved things: Tell me about your favorite things.
The melody is widely recognized and frequently adapted.
- raindropsIndividual bits of precipitation
- rosesThorny flowering shrubs
- whiskersFacial sensory hairs
- kittensYoung cats
- kettlesPots for boiling water
Julie Andrews · mittens · packages · brown paper · strings · snowflakes · ponies · sleigh bells · schnitzel · noodles · geese · girls · dresses · sashes · moonlight · doorbell · bees · stings
- Triple Meterwaltz, minuet, mazurka, 3/4 time, triple meter
- holiday songsSilent Night, The First Noel, White Christmas, Jingle Bells, Rudolph
- standardsstandard, standards, norm, norms, criterion
My Favorite Thingsintrusive thoughts
Involuntary disturbing mental content
My Favorite ThingsStrange Fruit
Song about Southern lynchings
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