i thought that if i reflected on some of wonderful things of 2011 that it might lead to me being a better person, while this is a doubtful supposition on my part, it was worth a shot:
1. my andrew, my darling, my heart, who encourages and loves me in every way, for you, i would cross oceans
2. my beautiful wonderful talented amazing smart gracious kind friends who know me better than i know myself and who read every crazy email i send them and always pick up the phone when i call and love me no matter what even when i leave them and live too far away in a folly of follies
3. our wonderful beautiful amazing trip across the country where i had to buy a new car halfway out and we went to five national parks (mesa verde, grand canyon, zion, yosemite, yellowstone, olympic) and camped and didn’t bathe and bought and ate the most wonderful strawberries in california and went up highway 1 and saw redwoods and sunsets and the most breathtaking and stupefying sites i have ever ever ever seen and took so many videos that on our joint resolutions list (did you hear that, a? our joint resolutions list) we’re going to make a real video. (this sentence was brought to you via my inner kerouac)
4. the man who gets off the bus every morning to go look at the water and the boats before he goes off to his job
5. the fog when it envelops the whole city and you can’t see anything and it looks like we live in an imaginary fairyland
6. our trip to cb where we will live one day and never leave and only ski and pick wildflowers and host a never ending run of guests
7. finishing my ma. the feeling of relief and happiness that i’m not sure i’ll ever feel again
8. looking at the pictures my mother found when she was making her memorial boards for my grandfather’s funeral
9. all of the lavender that grows everywhere here and makes the air smell heavenly and wonderful and sometimes when i think no one is looking i pick it and walk home smelling it until my heart’s content
