make a list of 100 things that make me happy.

28. Doing groups with drug addicts because sometimes they respond and that’s all I can ask for-one moment when they listen and say-I’m going to try that.

1. breathing
2. my cat
3. the smell of rain
4. the exorcist
5. smiles from people i love
6. the color green
7. wet sand on the reservation
8. yellow submarine by the bettles
9. she’s come undone by wally lamb
10. www.fallsapart.com
11. email from bekah
12. snail mail from anyone
13. muffins
14. bo when she’s sleeping on me
15. quotes like this one: The main purpose of life is: To have a job in whose purpose you can believe; To have friends whose immediate purposes you can trust; To have some spot on earth to which you can return as home; To be at the same time a citizen of a larger world.
- James A. Michener
16. the advice my grandmother gave me when i was a teenager
17. the way kids smell when they’ve been outside
18. the way clean sheets feel when you lie on them
19. the simpsons
19. beers with michelle
20. the memories i have with joe & his patience with me
21. the way i feel when i drive my truck around with the windows down and the music up loud.
22. new online friends
23. reading other people’s blog and feeling for a moment i am not alone in anything
24. the calm after a tearfest
25. the way my tattoo looks when i’ve forgotten about it and see it again
26. the scar near my eye from bouncing a basketball in the house
27. the way my nephew laughs

—-more later…