post-valentine gratitude

i am grateful for:

1) vegan fudge brownies

2) giant hearts carved into sand

3) how a cheezy holiday can be turned personal and sweet (i know, that’s just what hallmark wanted, but sometimes it’s ok to let the marketers win)

4) lost, found, full, lovely weekends of sunset roses, coconut curry, red silk, a dulcimer, poetry, kale pesto, and open gratitude

5) divine presence right here

6) the muppet movie. have you not re-seen it lately? it is so worth your winter hours

7) coffee

8) luff

9) having clean glasses

10) sunshine on snow

11) mondays off

12) that my co-worker sherry huang won the strand poetry contest with her smart, literary sonnet:

Ode to the Aisles of Strand
Milton himself got lost in paradise
On his way to Jane Austen for late tea
While Cervantes tried for windmill’s demise
Sendak and his wild things set out to sea
When Woolf said she’d buy the flowers herself
Forster, he searched for a room with a view
As F. Scott admired the Great Gatsby’s wealth
Balzac was paired with a seamstress and shoe
One Bronte pined for Heathcliff on the moor
Oh! Seuss didn’t know the places to go
But Lewis dared step through a wardrobe’s door
To Strand, where loved authors hold status quo
In eighteen miles all books find residence
Where written treasures still take precedence

13) vous