Happiness and gratitudes

• Parmesan. The not-powdered kind.

• Clarity.

• That these days when I take naps, I fall asleep to a blue sky-view.

• Cooking lentils on Friday evenings from my mom's recipe.

• Touching my back foot to my head in pigeon pose for the first time.

• Yoga classes with different kinds of bodies in them.

• Taizé chants that get stuck in my head. Lately this one.

• Ideas which are like food.

• Memories I have of this room in late summer, fall, and winter. I will miss it when I leave.

• Multicolored nails on my left hand, courtesy of testing privileges at Walgreens.

• Shared Google Docs, for making late-night group work from our respective bedrooms possible and more bearable.

• Birdsong in the morning, and being awake to hear it.

• Princess Jellyfish.

• Realizing that I do not have to answer every question asked by other people, if I don't yet have the trust or energy to do so. (Direct questions almost compel me; I don't know why and I don't enjoy saying things I don't want to say. And I'm terrible at lying.)

• The Secret Garden for bedtime reading, as spring is pushing back winter in my world and in Mary Lennox's.

• Asking for advice from just the right friends, and having those friends.

• De Clarke's writings. [example]