I have a bunch of posts percolating, but today I just feel... demoralized. I am so disheartened by what's happening in the United States, by the stripping of freedoms, the LITERAL rewriting of history, the cuts to funding in all the areas that make a place desirable to live (medical research, education, libraries, vaccine development, stuff that means you CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE)... I am taking advantage of my time to go to 5calls.org and call my Congressional representatives daily, but the active topics page has reached FIFTY things. FIFTY. It feels awful trying to pick which one or two I'll call about today. I could keep going on and on, but instead...
I'd like to do a brain dump of 20 positive things or things that bring me joy that I can think of in a short period of time (but not timed, because timers stress me out):
1. The spring peepers are out
2. I have a snuggly cat purring next to me
3. I went for a drive for the first time tonight
4. The Surgeon was really happy with my knee healing and progress
5. It was (briefly) warmer today
6. The daffodils on the hill on the side of my house are blooming
7. I didn't know that Van Gogh painted more than one Starry Night painting, and there are others in the series that are just as beautiful if not more in my opinion
8. I love the puzzle I'm working on ("Midnight Moths" by Elena Essex)
9. I can go up stairs pretty normally now
10. There's a gluten free almond ring coffee cake on the table, and gluten free double stuf Oreos in the pantry
11. I love the new cooling sheets I got recently, they are cozy and airy all at once
12. Bryce is going to help me set up and stain my new window box planters for the deck
13. The planters are going to make a "deck meadow" along the periphery of our deck with pollinator friendly plants
14. The idea of sitting in an Adirondack chair, surrounded by meadow flowers, is highly appealing right now
15. The orchid I was given for my birthday in 2021 is reblooming multiple times a year thanks to Bryce's attention
16. It's been blooming for months straight
17. The sliding glass door off our living room makes a perfect place for plants and it looks sort of like a botanical garden wall which is delightful
18. I love my house, it is so cozy
19. When Eggi gets ahold of her catnip fish pillow, she hugs it to her and rubs it all over her face like it's her baby
20. Making this list actually has made me feel appreciably happier and lighter.
Huh, interesting! Go make your own if you so choose!
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