Years and years ago, my beloved college friend J gave me a thick little pudgy book titled 14,000 Things to be Happy About. I don't read it cover to cover; it's not that kind of book. It's the kind of book you grab, flip to some random page, and read. I used to keep a highlighter near it, and when an item in the list caught my eye, I'd highlight it. I also dog-ear the pages that are my favorite. Today's blog is in honor of this little white book that has kept me company for ten years now. These are the things I am happy about, in this moment and on this Saturday:
Soft spring rain.
The feel of the warm, skinny vanilla latte cup in my hand.
Starbucks colors (warm oranges and browns and yellows)
Writing "to do" lists on brown, recycled paper napkins.
Cinnamon-chip scones.
Mellow music by Sting and Joan Collins.
Good hair days.
The passage in I Corinthians that promises that "when the perfect comes, the imperfect will disappear" (my Rosina-translation)
My favorite pen.
A silent cell phone. Lol.
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ~A.A. Milne
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