Here is my challenge:
to list 1,000 things I'm thankful for.
So here it is, beginning August 15, my 1,000.
{Feel free to join in}
- The beginning of things: a new semester, a new project, a new season
- The clean feel of a fresh notebook
- Quiet, cool nights
- The full, lumpy feel of a work-in-progress scarf
- The voice of a far-away friend
- JIF To-Go cups in my lunch bag
- The patch of fog that glows because it can never blot out the sun
- The sway of jazz
- Sunshine laughter
- Professors who assign Cultural Cuisine days for extra credit
- Bright green trees against a bright blue sky. Emeralds against Sapphires.
- Being surrounded by hills
- Slow, foggy mornings
- Copper and rose hills in the sunset
- Dead silence before the sun comes up
- Plum sky driving to the gym
- Browned- Butter noodles
- Light reflecting off of drinking glasses
- The clinking of coffee cups
- Frisbee on the beach
- Sandcastles
- Sandcastle molds and seaweed 'sword fights'
- My brother being my best friend
- Walking into warm sunshine
- Falling asleep right away
- Ginger Snaps
- Raspberry juice with plain yogurt (sweet & tart)
- Air conditioning
- Tree waving in the wind
- Camelbak water bottles
- Water
- Splashing- the way the water beads and sparkles and hangs for a split second like stars
- Thick, bubbly sea-foam cresting waves
- Drives along the coast
- The point where the sea and sky and mist meld into each other and become indivisible
- Perfect days with just enough breeze to balance August sunshine
- Old wooden porches
- Sitting on the front porch and seeing nothing but gold fields and green trees
- The velvety folds of a rhubarb leaf
- Grammy's rose printed couches to sink into
- Steaming mugs of tea
- Cats curled up with paws covering their noses
- Sand: soft, warm, sunshine-colored
- Anticipation before vacation
- Skype!
- Warm mornings
- Getting to class early
- Cream in hot cereal
- Moments from yesterday that make you laugh in the middle of history class
- A best friend you can talk non-stop with
- Americanos
- Liquid snow
- Sunsets- pink, mauve, crimson, saffron
- Sleepy-happy
- Being minded
- Black brownie batter
- Satisfaction in completing a math problem
- The vanilla scent of fabric softner
- To-do lists
- Classes canceled so you can accomplish the to-do list you didn't think you'd have time to
- Lattes with leaf designs on top
- Children who try to out-smile you
- Spontaneous prayers when you've said you're tired
- Pictures that capture people's laughter
- Professors that makes their class laugh on too-hot days before long and nerve-racking assignments
- A friend to eat snack with
- The first cold morning after a heat spell
- Crushed velvety cat noses
- Steam swirling, dancing, twirling it's way from a coffee cup
- The fading of one month into another
- Rush of school projects
- Toy Story clouds
- Sunlight so bright it diffuses everything else
- Full, contented laughter
- Stars too many to count
- The first rain
- Clouds framing the sky, coloring the world around them
- Audiobooks
- Double-shot Pumpkin Spice Lattes
- Peanut Butter ice cream
- Mounds of blankets on a cold night
- Books you can't put down
- Mis-matched socks
- Roaring owls
- Pascal's triangle
- Glitter nailpolish
- Hairspray
- Pink collared shirts
- GK Chesterton quotes
- Candles
- Nickel Creek
- Finding extra pens and bobby pins (the two things I always lose)
- New quotes
- The rush of cold air through the window
- Fabric flowers
- Ovaltine
- The perfect present idea for someone
- Surprise candy in my lunch bag
- Fleece
- Elves playing bluegrass and fairies playing accordions
- Warm afternoons in Berkeley
- Dahlias in a barbed wire fence
- New dresses
- Sunsetting behing a city
- Sun sparkling on the water
- Theme songs for friends
- Doing things that scare me
- 11/11/11
- London Fogs
- Bundling up in cold weather
- Coming in after cold weather to tea and dryer-warmed blankets
- Fall Leaves with colors on fire
- Russian tea buns
- Adventuring
- Coldplay
- Choir
- Planning unexpected road trips
- Hair dye
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