Happiness and gratitudes

• stumbling across my stashed-away stash of warm-weather skirts

• doing what is uncomfortable and unaccustomed, and looking forward to it becoming easier

• the wonderful lady lawyer from South Africa who visited to be the keynote speaker at my college's third world issues symposium

• the colors of winter

• the color of Lake Michigan, and the tiny (lake)shells that I didn't know you could find on its shore

• cracking my window

• post-yoga state

• class friends

• waking up to the trees coated in a fine layer of ice, and the flexing noise it made when they moved in the wind

• peppermint frozen yogurt

• Friday evenings sprawled on my floor rambling Friday-brain nonsense with my half-accented friend and her paint-fume-addled brain

• plans for July and August on a new continent

• the music video for "Home" [here]

• working on my capstone paper

• being almost done with astronomy

• when the reason I'm late to class is that I've gotten trapped listening to an addictive beautiful song