Happiness and gratitudes

• beautiful bare-ribbed ballet dancers

• a blue-gray dawn from the bridge

• a kind office lady at the travel clinic

• a visit from my pen pal Noel, and an agreement that I should come see her later this year

• going back to bed. sleeping, in general

• driving alone with an old summer mix very loud

• endless free chai refills at the Curry Village lunch buffet

• rereading the Jenny Linsky books (so sweet)

• beginning (only) to catch up on correspondence

• when my thoughts turn to friends as I am falling asleep—I smile and not even voluntarily, and I think I almost fall asleep smiling.