Ahhhh... bean. Fresh, steaming, deep dark bean. I can't live without it. The whole texture of the day rides on my first sip. Once the final gurgle hisses from the coffee maker, I know my life is about to get better. I'm never wrong.I was watching some forgettable foody show the other day and this guy took a bite out of something (don't remember what anymore), sighed and said, "That kind of cures everything." It got me thinking about the simple things in my life that have a way of "making it all better."
Here are a few:
- the sound of rain spattering against the windows
- the scent of freshly mowed grass
- a good hug - not one of those cheapo Hollywood hugs where you barely touch shoulders and pat someone on the back; I'm talking about the kind where I get enfolded and everything else in the world slips away
- Midnight curled up by my side, purring like a John Deere tractor, while I read some wonderful bit of literature
- the scent of cinnamon
- any tune that's so rich it makes me stop everything and listen... then go back and listen again
- words... words that have real meaning, that have bite and substance
- the sound of genuine laughter
- birdsong at o'dark thirty, when the rest of the world is still asleep
- that first sip from a glass of good red, as it rolls across the tongue, the acid grapeness demanding full attention... oy, it's like being seduced by a total stranger
- fireflies
"I simply remember my favorite things,
and then I don't feel so bad..."
~The Sound of Music
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ReplyDelete* the scent of the ground after a good rain
ReplyDelete* the feeling you get when you see someone you havent seen in a VERY long time
* a good long hug when you need it
* when i wake up really early in the morning and the rest of the world is asleep.
* standing outside 4am, in a snowstorm. not the windy kind, but the kind where the snowflakes just fall and it seems like you are the only one in the world
* the first sip of coffee in the morning
* lazily lounging at the beach in the sun, with a good book
* the sound of genuine laughter
* picking up a novel you cannot put down
* the smell of bbq on a warm spring day
* waking up to the birds chirping as opposed to the alarm clock
* a really good rocking tune on the radio. you just want to turn it up and ROCK OUT
* the sound of my nephew when he is devouring his afternoon bottle
i "borrowed" a couple from you! the Long Hug, and the Genuine laughter!
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