touch

28 January 2009

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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5 February 2010

  • 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

13 January 2010

  • 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

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11 January 2010

  • 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

23 December 2009

  • 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

17 December 2009

  • 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

4 December 2009

  • 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

1 December 2009

  • 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

29 November 2009

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

 

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25 November 2009

  • 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

23 November 2009

  • 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