ten items or less...or more

the lovely nadia over at la porte rouge invited her readers to list their ten happy items...more or less. i think it is a brilliant idea. especially because i could use a little reminder today of how sweet life is. so here's my ten:

{one}
days with a shroud of clouds, dark heavy clouds
{two}
lying in svasana listening to arvo part
{three}
dancing when no one is watching
{four}
my loyal wellies, green and quite functional
{five}
the smell of homemade doughnuts mingled with
the smell of a fire on an autumn evening
{six}
spending every day and every moment with ceej.
i. am. so. lucky.
{seven}
singing old folk songs with mo.
{eight}
letting words flow from my pen onto a blank sheet of paper
{nine}
reading keats, whitman, dickinson, and eliot aloud
{ten}
visiting new england when october comes..seeing all the
cozy homes, fruitful farms, and beautifully haunting graveyards.


now. it's your turn.

{photo by me. poem from auden.}