Last week was my 37th birthday. This time last year I composed a list of "36 reasons I'm glad to be alive" and I thought a similar post for the big 3-7 might be apropos. Reminders of reasons to love life, after all, might be first on the list.
1. Sunshine in June
2. The smell of a Russian Olive tree off in the distance
3. Camping
4. Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
5. People watching at the Y
6. U2's Achtung Baby
7. Q on CBC Radio 1
8. Dead Poets Society
9. Officiating at Weddings
10. That dusty old book-page smell that hangs about
your face when you're reading an old book
11. Settlers of Catan
12. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"
13. Playing djembe on the worship team
14. Building "Thomas the Train" tracks with a child
15. Reading out loud to each other as a family
16. Memories of backpacking through Europe
17. Maps
18. Cumin
19. Watching my son become a man
20. Canola fields and blue sky
21. Cool, humid mornings that promise to become
a scorcher of day
22. C. S. Lewis books
23. Playing Lost Heir with mom and dad
24. Stumbling across a forgotten piece of one's own juvenilia.
25. Family movie nights
26. Rainy afternoons
27. Walks in the forest park around the corner from our house
28. Teaching
29. Eating with chopsticks
30. The Breastplate of St. Patrick (the prayer and the Irish hymn)
31. Strong coffeee
32. Watching home videos on New Years Eve
33. Dancing with my kids
34. Fresh garden potatoes with dill
35. Stationary
36. Words whose form and meaning are as close
together as possible-- like sesquipadalian and tintinnabular
37. Moments of inspiration
37 Good Things
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