current list of joy inducing things.....

some beautiful sunshine around these parts, a trip to the farmer's market for Blue Bottle coffee before work, walking home late at night with a friend in the crispy cold and forgetting that i am in Oakland, sweet boyfriends that pick up your favorite Thai food on the way home, my cat who sleeps at my feet, wearing a skirt without tights underneath, wonderful long French films, my hair finally growing, perfume, Octavio Paz's writing about India, shirts tucked into high waisted things, this quote....'Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.' - Henry James...found it here, pears, reading about Hinduism, talking on the phone to my Marlene more often than usual, daydreaming about trips to Texas, Portland, and Paris, feeling relatively content