Positively Glorious!

Since lists of random information are so much easier than a well constructed narrative essay, and since well constructed narrative essays are hard when your wife is gone and you starting eating your whiskey omelettes at noon, I give you a list of things I’m thankful for.

This list is by no means complete. In fact, it basically represents what I’ve been doing today.

• Sunny days that are so cold that you can feel the air rush past your lips and all the way down your throat into your lungs.
• The cloyingly sweet smell of honey and cider brewing in the kitchen
• The wonderful feeling when I share mead and cider with friends over meals of laughter
• Taking a long bike ride, even when it’s cold and you feel out of shape
• Salmon
• Cheese… Good Irish hard cheese
• The smell of ginger, shredded and boiling in water, and the taste of the tea it makes after adding the honey and lemon
• The way that cats push their heads into your hands when they want pets
• Comedy and laughter,  and a very bearable lightness of being
• Kindness, from both strangers and those you love
• The sound of Jessie’s voice, especially the sound of her laugh
• Friends, friends, friends. Even the not so good ones, which I don’t actually have any of at the moment
• And WordPress… for making me take 5 minutes out of my day to smile and mindfully think about how much I like cold air filling my lungs on long bike rides when I take breaks from ginger-mead making on days before I hang out with friends over dinner of salmon and Irish chees