1. This list could be thirty-eight times as long. (Gotta limit it somehow...)
2. The BYM.
3. The doggie.
4. My jobs. Even when they're kicking my ass, they kick ass.
4a. The current crunch is an immense nuisance, but I will get through it. And it's nice to be needed, wanted, and sought after.
5. My yellow rosebush is having its best year ever. (I didn't plant it and no one tends to it, so its blooms are always a happy surprise.)



6. The Xerox Phaser I purchased earlier this year. It replaced my decrepit printer and my inefficient scanner, and it has already paid for itself in terms of time saved.
7. CCleaner. (Awesome freeware that helped get the HP crap off my system.)
8. Making progress on estate paperwork... using a beautiful pen. (*waves at Dichroic*)
9. The most recent poem D. posted at Spoon River Rail.
10. Clearing out another banker's box-worth of my own clutter.
11. Snacking on fresh mint from my backyard.
12. Making the year's first batch of simple syrup.
13. Slooooowly noshing on an orange-almond brownie from Zingerman's. *waves at the Smith/Larke lair*
14. Light shawls that can double as skirts.
15. Fresh coffee.
16. Reading bits of James Laughlin's letters to Thomas Merton.
17. My bed and its new mattress pad. Each night I feel like I'm sliding into a cloud.
18. Plotting things to send to friends.
19. Wearing Amsterdam.
20. Online library services, including interlibrary loan.
21. Making new-to-me software do my bidding.
22. Practicing Handel.
23. Becoming old enough to enjoy playing scales.
24. Sam's writing something for me.
25. So's Shira.
26. Rereading some of my own stuff and going, "Hey, not bad."
27. Inflicting and/or inciting puns.
28. Randomish postcards.
29. Reading aloud just for the sheer indulgence of it.
30. Viewing snippets of Dr. Who Confidential.
31. Learning about bold and nifty people such as Irvine Robbins. (Lately, I've taken to skimming the paid obituaries in the NYT as well as the featured ones - there are so many fascinating folks who were influential and beloved in their own spheres...)
32. So, so many things to make, shape, revise, refine, encourage...
33. A lovely note from a stranger complimenting me on a sermon I delivered last summer.
34. Geoffrey Brock's "My Austere and Lonely Office (Soliloquies)." Especially the paperclips vs. the stapler. (I first heard of Brock via Poetry Daily, when they featured "And Day Brought Back My Night").
35. Long, deep kisses and the pleasant haze in their wake.
36. Dictionaries.
37. Dancing with abandon in the middle of housework binges.
38. All y'all. :-)