i am grateful for:
1) getting to play journalist today, even though it made us late for free hooch. oral roberts, rip.
2) free hooch. or, well, brooklyn lager.
3) learning cool facts about co-workers: owning 40 book versions of “a christmas carol”?! love that.
4) being reminded of this poem. it strikes me as more selfish every time i read it, but you can taste the plums.
5) horseradish hummus from trader joe’s. ok, i’m grateful for that every day. but god. horseradish? and hummus? how can you not believe in a benevolent force?
6) sweet thoughts
7) a fresh possibility of getting some real help selling this book. and remembering that i really do want to write the thing. and publish the thing. and sell the thing. so people can know something that i know that i’m not even sure i know. you know? like a transmission of the essence of something that does not belong to me, but could flow through me and maybe somehow help something, someone, somewhere.
8) hearing that my maui tasha-kitty is doing well. oof, my sweet, alien girl who i found new year’s eve 1995, hana, maui, side of the curving, dark road. we nursed her with soy milk till morning and she fit in my hand. thanks, jz, for taking such good care of her. love.
9) baths
10) discovering that the bread you’re eating has chunks of figs in it.
11) people dressing up for parties that don’t require dressing up.
