list of small things I like

lying in bed in the winter with my feet on a heating pad. Reading or journaling. both pets (molly and moon) wanting to cuddle at the same time. snow white mode. moon (cat) trying to help with a project tea/coffee in the brief window of being the perfect temperature the low sun in the morning or evening that makes everything glow shifting leafy shadows— especially on a cloudy window or the bright, flat plane of a building the way leaves and branches move in wind when air is cool and crisp and breathing it feels like drinking water plants growing where they weren’t planted signs of wear on public surfaces that tell you the manner in which hundreds/thousands/millions of people have passed through. like wrinkles on a face wrinkles on my face peeling an orange in one piece washing my face and eyes with cold water after crying. Rising to the mirror looking bright. fresh. damp and remade lipstick stains on a cigarette a flat, wet, grey day when the moon is so low in the sky it looks…