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4/26
April 27, 2019
for the movie ingrid goes west
4/25
April 26, 2019
that i gently scratched the top of miso’s head until her eyes closed and she fell asleep against me
4/23
April 24, 2019
that d saw that i was busy at lunch and made me soft boiled eggs, and that the meeting that had interrupted me coming to the kitchen got canceled at the last...
4/22
April 23, 2019
for our trip to california last week, which i didn't want to go on but was nice; for sunshine, for old and new friends, for superiority burger's ketchup, for...
4/10
April 11, 2019
to walk outside with bare arms
4/8
April 9, 2019
i'm thankful that the two big trees in the yard have started to flower and that i took a picture of them from the front porch and am going to try to take one...
3/31
April 1, 2019
i’m thankful for the march 25th issue of the new yorker, which i read on a quiet couch this afternoon after a very busy few days and which had some very good...
4/1/19
April 1, 2019
i’m thankful that this morning, i read this cute tweet (https://twitter.com/doodlingglass/status/1111279995350122496?s=21) and gently chuckled, clicking...
3/30
March 31, 2019
i’m thankful for our friend jk, who came and stayed with us this weekend and who we got lots of quality time with, and for her daughter j, who is the cutest...
3/29
March 30, 2019
i’m thankful for this basketball poem https://streamable.com/x0hrj
3/28
March 29, 2019
i’m thankful that i went to dinner with d’s parents, who came to town from across the country unannounced (except we had been warned by her sister) because d...
3/26
March 27, 2019
i’m thankful that d and i meditated together.
3/25
March 26, 2019
i’m thankful for gummy worms, even though i am not thankful i ate the whole bag.
3/24
March 25, 2019
i'm thankful that i wrote a long letter to d and we had a good talk. i'm thankful for the way that writing these notes for so long has strengthened my...
3/22
March 23, 2019
for the little poems i’ve been doing some recent evenings
3/23
March 23, 2019
3/19
March 20, 2019
i’m thankful for pillows.
3/18
March 19, 2019
i’m thankful d and i can hold each other, since when we don’t, and when we’re fighting, it’s so easy to reduce the other person to an idea, a concept, some...
3/17
March 18, 2019
i’m thankful, since it seemed for so long like miso was allergic to petting, that lately she seems to enjoy neck (especially) and chest and (sometimes even)...
3/16
March 17, 2019
i’m thankful for the sound of d singing in another room.
3/15
March 16, 2019
i’m thankful for ‘a star is born,’ which (for me) earned its earnestness.
3/14
March 15, 2019
i’m thankful for roast beef sandwiches and discounted grocery store pecan rolls.i’m thankful that it was very windy today, which meant miso got to play the...
3/13
March 14, 2019
i'm thankful that this afternoon suddenly for the first time in months and months it was sixty eight degrees outside, the breeze a friend rather than a...
3/12
March 12, 2019
i’m thankful that most of the time today felt like a normal day.
3/11 (2)
March 11, 2019
i’m thankful that after i wrote that and felt such despair i took out the trash and walked the dog down the trail and came back in and we slow danced crying...
3/11
March 11, 2019
i’m thankful she’s back home, since i don’t have to worry about her in the same way i did when she was in the hospital, even though it’s harder, in a way,...
3/10
March 10, 2019
i'm thankful that the clocks sprung forward an hour, even though that meant that i had less time to rest today before i have to go back to work tomorrow,...
3/9
March 9, 2019
i'm thankful to return to the old form, because i need the rhythm of it, the mantra. i'm thankful for the sound of the rain pattering on the roof. i'm...
3/7
March 8, 2019
to have taken d a polaroid of miso
3/6
March 7, 2019
to remember the time years ago when, having taken a wisdom tooth painkiller on an empty stomach, i was left racked with nausea laying on my side on our bed,...
3/5
March 6, 2019
that terrible days, no matter how terrible, will always eventually end, and that it is always possible that tomorrow will be better
3/4
March 5, 2019
that miso and i are getting better at playing fetch
3/3
March 4, 2019
the new solange album, which just sounds so fucking good
3/3
March 3, 2019
for my favorite kind of saturday, quiet and calm and restorativeto have gone on a long run in the morning, which i always prefer, if possible, to going in...
3/2
March 2, 2019
that i facetimed my parents and it was nice and they ended up less worried about me than they have been latelyto have gotten to play music the other day with...
2/28
February 28, 2019
to have learned two new words: “waterkoud” (a dutch word for chilly dampness) and “apricity” (the warmth of the sun in winter)
2/26
February 27, 2019
for the twitter account @sunofseldo, which warmly charts the micro milestones on the road to spring, such as today’s entry, which read:“WOO! It's the...
2/25
February 25, 2019
that when gmail's editor ate the completed draft of my notes yesterday, i did not try to recreate them but instead laid on the couch doing nothingfor, even...
2/23
February 24, 2019
that after a long and tedious saturday shift, something i have to do every few months, i was saying goodbye to my two coworkers, who work every weekend,...
2/22
February 23, 2019
the song and video for “love it if we made it” (https://youtu.be/1Wl1B7DPegc), for the throb and the flash
2/21
February 22, 2019
that at our favorite restaurant, they brought a survey and i drew hearts and stars all over it and they gave me a coupon for a free brunch cocktailfor cardi...
2/20
February 21, 2019
pen15, which we watched more great episodes of tonighthi-chew sent by friendsjeni's brambleberry crisp ice creamgetting to think about a new project at...
2/20 pt 2
February 21, 2019
i’m thankful that jk told me about ingmar bergman loving “sex and the city”i’m thankful for this spare and lovely tom petty song...
2/19
February 20, 2019
i'm thankful for pen15 on hulu (trailer), which made me laugh more than any other comedy i've seen recently, thankful that though at the outset the conceit...
2/18
February 19, 2019
the water from my lunch can of solid white albacore, which i drain into miso's bowl (which makes her happy), and also some frozen pretzels that are an insult...
2/17
February 18, 2019
that d and i had a good day together where i wasn't scared any more for soft-boiled eggs, the vegan chocolate bars e sent, the pasta shape that looks like a...
2/16
February 17, 2019
to have been reminded that once during our mfa program when she was grading d got pizza on a student assignment once and “laboriously retyped” the entire...
2/15
February 16, 2019
i’m thankful that when we were having a sad conversation about our marriage in a booth at chik-fil-a and hit a silent patch, an old church lady from the...
2/8
February 9, 2019
2/7
February 8, 2019
i’m thankful i decided to rest now and pack for my trip in the morning.
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