Five Treasures

An email pal sent me one of those memes the other day. This one asked
me for my "five treasures" is the categories of books, music, and
art. I'm a sucker for that sort of thing so I sat down to try and
figure it out. It seemed a simple enough task. What five items in
each group would I list?

Not at all simple as it turns out. Five is both a too small and a too
large number. My ideas of what I like and what I'd choose to spend a
lifetime with change day to day and year to year. Books that were
treasured companions when I was twenty or forty no longer speak to
me. Music that sent me into ecstasy no longer plucks a heartstring.
The delights of my eye today may bore me tomorrow. I created a list
to send back to my friend, fully knowing that it is a list for today
and that next week each and every item may be overthrown by another.
Is it the same for others or am I too momentary to lock things in a
treasure box?

Here are my choices (for 4/4/09) in case you are curious:

MY 5 TREASURES
Suppose you had a treasure box that would hold only 5 of each kind of
item, what would yours hold?

BOOKS (FICTION): Pride & Prejudice, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Jane
Eyre, War & Peace, Wintergreen

BOOKS (NON-FICTION): Roget's Thesaurus, OED, World Atlas, Sibley's
Bird Guide, Western Gardens Book

POEMS: Any five by Mary Durel.

MOVIES: Stranger Than Fiction, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But
Came Down a Mountain, Gigi, While You Were Sleeping, Star Wars

RECORDS: Chansons A Cappella (Charbonniers de L'Enfer), Symphony #40
in G Minor (Mozart), Rubber Soul (Beatles), Scandinavia Potluck by
Skålmusik, Carolan's Favorite by Derek Bell

ART (REPRODUCTIONS): Monet Waterlilies, Van Gogh Sunflowers, Christ
of St. John of the Cross by Salvidor Dali, Self Portrait (1500)
Albrect Dürer, Eruption of Vesuvius by Turner