Write them down. Doesn’t matter how ridiculous, how real, how important to anyone but you. If they bring you some degree of happiness, they deserve your recognition.
Like swallowing daily pills, capture your observations. Any spark of interest, any surge of hope: jot it down. Here’s my list for a week in May.
1. The nightlight’s pattern on the wall
2. Waking up: wow, I was able to go back to sleep after all
3. Dog watching me, always
4. No gloves!
5. Edits to make on a manuscript
6. Leaves four times bigger than last week
7. Blender clatter: oats + water = oat milk
8. Wiggly lamb tails
9. Flash of orange: an oriole on the picnic table
10. Small red frog in the brown leaf litter
11. Reading a chapter of my recently completed story: I like it!
12. Greenery ringing the pond
13. A pair of curious otters poking their heads from the water
14. The chocolate-rich aroma of spring soil
15. Watching the rhododendrons bloom
16. A query, successfully sent into the ether
17. A card game with my son: this time I will win
18. The pride of owning a big stick … for a couple minutes
19. Scrabble with my husband: this time I will win
20. Curling up in bed to read
21. Upside-down dog
What’s on your list?
Happy Tales!
*Thanks to my writer friends Robin and Suzy for insisting I do this exercise. What would I do without you?
First on my list for today: Reading Wendy's list and feeling wowed and uplifted by the images there.
Loooovvvee this. The list of noticing. Always my dog. Hubby. (Like how he comes in second? Hehe. )