A List of Happy Little Things

1. Buttercups that light up the underneath of your chin, as if you’ve swallowed a firefly.

2. Wildflowers found on rainy afternoon walks.

3. A peppermint stick in your coffee in the fall.

4. The watery smell of the garden hose on an April day.

5. The deep smell of fresh honeysuckle carried on the warm summer wind.

6. The slow feeling of decomposing as the ocean takes the sand from underneath you, burying you deeper into the earth.

7. Kissing your loved one in the singular beam of morning light that angles through the kitchen window.

8. The invigorating immediacy of the first sip of coffee in the morning.

9. The comfort of sleeping in your own bed after a long vacation.

10. That nice kind of cold that ruffles your hair and stills you with an internal warmth of excitement.

11. That short magical moment of inspiration that only has time to occur when writing with pen and paper, while your brain waits for your hand to catch up.

12. A summer storm on the Fourth of July. 

13. The heart fire feeling of discovering your first personal favorite song in the fifth grade.

14. The smell of a cigar on a nighttime street corner.

15. Vinyl music that seems to swirl in rainbow patterns and leave its notes hanging visibly in the air.

16. Sinking deeper into a soft warm bed while the crisp night air from the window sways the curtain and graces your face.

17. The savory satisfaction of a glass of milk at midnight.