An effort to think positively today

Random things I like

• Garlic
  
• Very fresh butter
  
• the way grass moves in waves when blown by the wind
  
• the feel of silk charmeuse
  
• The Princess Bride, by Willim Goldman (referring here to the book. The movie's pretty good too, but I'm thinking of the book today)
  
• pale green of new spring leaves
  
• tulips
  
• seeds
  
• fresh sugar-snap peas
  
• blue hydrangeas
  
• Frances the cat, purring as she sits on my chest
  
• bird tracks in the sand
  
• tasty BEvERages
  
• sleeping
  
• bouncy, springy wool yarn
  
• D'Affinois brie
  
• grilled salmon
  
• GOOD chocolate chip cookies
  
• drinking and eating and talking on the back patio on a summer evening as the stars come out
  
• fresh raspberries picked from the vine
  
• bouquets of dahlias from the Farmer's market
  
• candlelight
  
• blueberry pie
  
• Twilight Zone marathons (oh yes, so horribly cheesy and dated and slow-paced, but I like the concept of T.Z. Marathons)
  
• DVD players
  
• massive summer thunderstorms in the desert
  
• sound that snow makes when it's falling
  
• EuroRails (it's a board game)
  
• Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade
  
• Vineland, by Thomas Pynchon
  
• the clouds scudding quickly across the sky