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| A beautiful, walkable beach, this one in Southern California |
Things That Help:
- Making cookies and seeing them cool on a wire rack
- Getting an invitation for dinner
- Going back to a town I love
- 76-degree weather
- Waking to a sunny morning
- Bringing home two or three good books from the library
- A perfectly cooked filet mignon
- Bach
- Laughing
- Sketching
- Pine trees
- Walking along a beach
- Flowers
- Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
- A friend who spontaneously stops by ... with a bottle of white wine isn't bad, either. (Or red.)
- Scotland
- Provence
- Blue Pearl champa-scented incense
- April through October
- People who can weave, make paper, do traditional arts
- People who can play a musical instrument
- Going to a fabulous restaurant
- Visiting Santa Fe
- People with common sense and a sense of humor
- Anyone who offers to carve the turkey
- Bacon
- An ocean voyage
- A full tank of gas
- Going to an art museum
- A surprise bottle of champagne
- Cell phones when you need them
- Chocolate
Things That Hinder:
- Big box stores
- Piped "music" in stores, dental offices, gas stations, car dealerships
- Seeing a hurricane, tornado, or ice storm warning in the forecast
- Improper grammar
- My winter fuel oil bill
- Airline travel
- Cover-ups
- Cold cereal
- Getting a movie and then finding I don't like it
- Two-plus-year-long Presidential campaigns
- Not getting a good night's sleep
- National hubris and greed
- Pedestrians in parking lots who don't watch where they're going because they're on their cell phones
- One of the political parties ... plus the other one as well
- Caviar, liver
- High fructose corn syrup
- People who don't do what they say they'll do
- Barking dogs
- November through most of March
- Ice storms
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| After an ice storm |
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