Daily: Reflect on 5 things for which I'm grateful.

- New yoga experience thanks to summer buddy m
- J and D old unconditional friends and the chance to celebrate them
- lychee
- change, witnessing people embracing it, affirming that it’s possible
- the color orange, in it’s many manifestations

- running, quickly

- a meeting I was kind of dreading, turned out ok

- a note from the IRS saying: you owe $0

- the exercise of listening, closely

- the library

- G’s family. they are delightful

- older friends, K and M, who remind me of the full arc of living

- M and his always honest check-ins. it’s great to have a “classmate”

- tea with MH, purely social, long overdue, great new place and we’re back in a groove of sorts

- got a meeting done without even trying very hard

- J and her fantastic attentiveness, not sure what we did to deserve her, but she always always goes above and beyond and I feel lucky

- getting called on some shit. the other shoe was going to drop at some point, grateful that it did and now we can move on.

- making plans, making progress

- getting great use daily from my reading

- sharing whoopie pies and stories with L

- a dog in the house (somebody else’s dog, and just for a couple of hours, but still)

- one of our former students doing a bang up job

- mom and her unconditional support

- awesome stay-cation exceeding expectations

- M and her brave face

- wise counsel about being available

- Midnight in Paris, which was just the ticket for today!

- getting to introduce a friend to the delights of the Korean spa scrub. and subsequent extreme smoothness.

- hearing hilarious humanizing stories about coworkers

- the 780 bus. takes me exactly where I want to go, and speedily.

- good lunch with D. pushing our program in the direction it needs to go, plus all kinds of good updates about art and life.

- the prospect of advancing professional practices curriculum by developing a relationship that’s been dormant for too long

- nice talk with M and learning about a whole area of shared interest I had no idea of!

- a way forward, thank goodness, at least for now, on troublesome real estate challenge. thanks to getting a little assertive with professional help when necessary.

- my cousin, for doing what she can, optimistically, despite obstacles

- mom :) and dad for good cheer

- nice outing with P and a chance to download on various family issues. good to have someone who has years of context upon which to base empathetic listening.

- buying art from a preteen ceramicist. kids were great at talking about their work!

- cuban sandwiches, and in particular the one from Beach City Market this afternoon. pressed, sliced, pickled goodness.

- inspiration for the art sale project and for mapping projects upcoming

- sunny, windy, day after the rains. the range of weather.

- talking to E about her writing on a lovely collaboration ongoing

- neighborhood yoga, sweaty, filled with good wishes

- online celebration

- good ideas with N, which genuinely made her happy and hopeful

- M and the gift of cupcakes!

- news from my bro. love love being in touch with him and feeling optimistic about how we’re getting on

- took time, resolved lame fix it ticket, and learned something about how sheriffs and courts work. no more unnecessary fines and fees thank you very much.

- very grateful for a long serious conversation with my bro, whom I love and miss TREmendously

- good food and chatting with M

- for security

- a clean car

- controlling the e-mail tide, for now at least

- another grad school friend reaching from across time, nice to be in touch

- a meeting that might have made this day way too long, was postponed

- the prospect of lunch with Q tomorrow!

- brunch ritual and an occasion for gratitude for our year

- another excellent student enrolled

- tax refund!

- perfectly juicy orange

- two good talks with our international students who are doing amazingly, leaping beyond boundaries of language

- an e-mail from grad school friend Y. it’s not easy to stay in touch, but so worthwhile to try

- Mom, mom. and her mom, and dad’s mom too.

- for a funny prolonged catch up with a friend from long ago.

- the chance to be with R and see the warmth in her.

- clean laundry

- carrots with the tops on

- netflix

- for L the storyteller who reminds me of histories not often retold

- chance meeting with S and V, dutifully making their play-going rounds

- the opportunity to remember and reach out to Y

- late afternoon sun, after a cool cloudy day

- cosy carefree knitting time