Unexpected Joys.

• Binge watching Bates Motel by myself.
• Eating sunflower seeds, especially on a long drive with Mom.
• Writing and making collages in a notebook at 3 a.m. next to a dorm entrance.
• Feeling so eager about the mail even though I knew it would hold rejections. It meant I was trying!
• Swimming in a deep lake, treading water for an hour.
• Taking Oliver to speech and occupational therapy and talking about him with his therapists.
• Being a mother.
• The low, dirty pond behind our apartment.
• Draining a pen. I have to find another pen, but I feel accomplished.
• Enjoying True Grit.
• Bruce.
• Journaling for about 16 years off and on--but mostly on. 
• Teaching. I have some great memories.