Day 6 - 20 Things

Day 6 - twenty things that calm you.

1. Exile in Guyville
2. Cooking when I’m not hungry
3. Knitting when there’s no urgency to finish
4. Kayaking when I’m not busy drowning
   
5. Poodles on my lap
6. Galaxie 500
   
7. Laps in the pool
   
8. The sauna when I don’t have to share it
9. M’s laugh – not his snort, not his guffaw, not the nervous chuckle that everyone else in the world adores, but his full-bellied, rarely heard, eyes tearing laugh
10. Running along the river
    
11. Walking along the river
12. Staring at the river
13. Mogwai
14. Putting the kettle on for tea
15. Fresh sheets on the bed
16. A new notebook (for my lists, see day 12) and a nice pen
17. Reading Lucky “the magazine about shopping”
18. Riding the train by myself
19. Sunday afternoons at my in-laws’ house, watching football on the oversized couch eating bbq chips with poodles on my lap
20. M’s embrace