My friend Jazlyn once introduced me to this fabulous and probably frivilous book called "14,000 Things To Be Happy About". It was a very dense book that listed endlessly all the little things in the day that could possibly make one smile...I often give this book as gifts to people. I use to mark on one page a day all the things listed there that I recognized as making me happy. And today, I need to be reminded, listed below is a excerpt from the book...
*I've edited in the parenthesis a thought or memory to add*
the pleasure of remembering great and beautiful things that we cannot lose and the pleasure of sharing them with others
the metronome of rain ( For Cheryl Sinz)
a broad stand-up desk
sipping a margarita and listening to Mozart ( For Kelsie)
graspable directions
a sanctuary from everyday life (Mike and Mary Gammill)
a video you watch together
the guy on the ski jump wiping out during the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports
mild rock concerts
rich and ruddy complexions
grilled nectarines (never had them, they sound nice)
the education and culture to appreciate a quiet place
a little dirt road zigzagging off in search of adventure (1/2 hour outside of Casper in the middle of the night)
Pablo Picasso
trying out the new sled
shower karaoke
licking a stamp (No, really, I really love this taste, I think it comes from being a postman's daughter)
artwork on the walls
pound cake
singing in the back seat
animals I've never seen before (Chinchilla)
writing poetry that no one will see ( For Noah, For Me, For the Youth Girls)
giving a party
the countdown to Christmas
doing something unusual in order to get someone's attention (Once some one fell with a huge tray of plastic glasses full of water. I was a junior higher and it was a leader who recognized the need to snap me out of my strange awkward stupor)
generosity (For whoever paid for me to make it to New York my senior year)
a treehouse fort, hideout, tent, shed, or playhouse
looking through a kaleidoscope
See. Don't you feel better. I do.:0)'
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