touch

In Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace wrote: touch all things with consideration and they will be yours. I find that, particularly in the winter, I complain too frequently about trivialities. So on this snow-turning-to-sleet-turning-to-rain day, I’m embarking on the path of good intentions – a gratitude journal.

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• watching the sunrise over the ocean from my bed
• yoga classes taught by Mimi and Heather
• meeting kind and generous people
• understanding most of what was said to me in Spanish
• finding out that swim classes have paid off!
• peppermint tea
• getting through long days
• learning to let go a little bit more

65

• watching the deep colors of the pre-dawn sky
• a mostly healthy, mobile self
• the luxuries of warm clothes, a home, and plentiful food
• knowing people who make an effort
• the resilient people of Haiti

64

• slow path to healing
• catching up with Gina
• eating better
• football on the radio
• yoga tourism – and how grateful it makes me for my home studio
• seeing Genny
• work
• books
• ice skating with Dann on the Frog Pond
• time with J and Nora

63

• lunch dates
• dinner with a tipsy Megan
• very delicious neighborhood Indian food
• kitchen garden
• quiet office
• tamales and tree decorating and sleeping warm and close
• feeling sad and nostalgic
• hoping for today

62

• yoga with Erin
• talking to Marc
• “theofrickinretically?”
• my new career path as Fantasy Consultant
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• reading a fantasy book in a day – nostalgia!
• making plans for christmas eve & christmas day
• tree smell
• finishing the semester

61

• sitting in the car
• ‘it’s a junkyard back there’
• listening to music at work
• seeing Marc in mere hours
• feeling a bit better in the shoulder
• the sun

60

• feeling accomplished
• allocating resources
• singing
• cranberries
• Vietnamese tofu sandwich with Erin
• Marc asking to take yoga with me
• a shower and yin before bed

59

• down time
• wagamama
• staying positive despite injury
• planning small ways to make big changes
• looking forward to swim class rather than dreading it
• sunshine

 

58

• surprise lunch date
• pie, board games, friends gathering for the first time at my new home
• time spent with my roommate
• planning for next year’s resolutions
• going home early from work to clean
• soon: Thanksgiving yoga with Ame and then dinner with Amy, visit from S.lo

57

• hiking and book milling and talking with Heather K.
• 5 6 7 times
• a long weekend of yoga and friends
• imminent Pie Night!
• nice authors who call to check in about their books