when you wake, the morning covers you with light

(credit for the title goes to Counting Crows)

tuesday's happinesses

-getting up early while the house is still quiet

-a bonfire

-the car heater in 2 degree weather

-coffee with an old friend in a diner that looks like a train car, listening to the conversations of the bearded, plaid-wearing men at the counter

-bookshops and gift certificates

-my sister's kitten

-chocolate-covered, candied orange rind

-scraping wallpaper, which is oddly peaceful and satisfying

-the nearly full moon

-scar stories