Gratitudes + things that are making me happy

• the smell of beeswax candles

• the smell of green tea oil

• "walking" on Google Maps Streetview around the neighborhood in Australia that will be mine

• my friend Steph coming to visit (and letting me play with her camera, whee)

• a fresh volume of Adrienne Rich

• letters

• presents

• pre-dawn and dawn

• doughnuts from Pepples

• discovering a chai vendor downtown — chai as in the kind you get in an Indian restaurant, not the kind you get in Starbucks with "latte" appended to its name

• hydrangeas

• Beach House

• a strand of simple round beads, anytime

• using a knife to do scissor tasks (feeling vaguely badass)

• warm socks in a chilly house

• Andrea Gibson live