invisible things

i'm thankful for the sunrise alarm clock that d got us during the depths of winter, which gradually increases the amount of light like the sun rising and also plays birdsong (multimodal wake-up therapy), a thing that i always thought seemed like gilding the lily but i have really appreciated and i'm thankful that now it's summer and so it gets brighter earlier and there are actual birds singing outside but we still use the alarm clock and so sometimes the layer of "real" and "simulated" light and sound interweave between each other which is pleasing to my sleepy brain.

i'm thankful for this ask metafilter question about cats and screentime and especially for this prose poem of an answer:

We gave in and gave the cats their own small TV that they control with a motion sensor. It has done them no appreciable harm and they go back and forth between watching the real birds or the TV birds. They don't appear to be anxious or frustrated except when a power outage knocks their TV out of commission and we don't fix it fast enough for them. Sometimes they get annoyed at that.

i'm thankful for the miniature crossword that i did at the bottom of some new york magazine article, even though i am not really a person who does crosswords, and i'm thankful for the elegant and mobile browser-friendly UX decisions that whoever built the crossword made. 

i'm thankful for this coffee cake that d made with leftover buttermilk from biscuits she made last week.