i am grateful for:
1) seeing heart friends yesterday. people who have known me forever and extra, enough to mirror back a me that is much more lovely than the version cached in my head sometimes.
2) toastmasters. giving my speech and learning, painfully, slowly, to accept criticism, even when the message is, basically, “love you, hate your speech.” it’s rough. but good for me to keep on anyway. i’ve always hid under the sofa when that happens, but i can hold onto the good stuff other people said, the fact that, proper speech structure or not, i made them laugh, quite a bit. which is something. oh, and my own internal sense of pride. not just external validation. working on that too.
3) seeing baby j. it’s so cool to see my old friends parenting. knowing how they were parented firsthand and then seeing the remedies and fixes in their methods. it’s a pretty touching, tender thing.
4) josie maran’s argan oil. makes the skin hum.
5) satya jewelry’s sample sale–the annual bauble harvest, happening now, at chelsea market. exciting and only moderately indulgent.
6) water.
7) dara.
8) the advice from k: when a friend is long-term ill, do one thing a week to help.
9) bathrobes and laptops, together.
10) the iphone 5 release pending, while my contract is ripe for renewal. verrrrry. excited. and so is everyone i text asking to look up yoga classes and the like for me.
