• My cousin on the other side of the pond is ridiculously happy and she deserves it.
• More and more of the people around me are getting vaccinated and I’m starting to feel like there’s hope.
• I scheduled a certain appointment at a local clinic and I’m very stoked.
• Homemade brownies exist and they are lovely and there’s absolutely no such thing as too many of them.
• My dad is breathing. This is important. Sometimes he has a hard time breathing and it’s worrisome, but he’s still here.
• The flowers are coming out, around campus. There’s a kind of tree with thick, waxy white blossoms planted at each corner of the quad. I sometimes have to stop and just look at them for a minute.
• As much as each day feels overwhelmingly full of things to do, in the beginning, I am finding that I’m able to get through them – moving slowly, deliberately, one moment at a time.
• My cat has started curling up into a ball on my chest and purring, when I lay down to sleep at night. It’s centering.
• I can keep going to school. I had a moment this week of not being sure I would be able to keep going to school because of arbitrary factors like scheduling and money and class credits and time. But I can keep going.
• The skill of discernment. The ability to sit down and squint hard at a messed up ball of anxiety and gut feelings and sometimes tell the difference between those things, so that I can work out what’s actually true.
• I have friends. This is a hard thing to believe, most of the time, because I never expected that it would happen. But it’s real. And it makes me so happy.
• As far as I can tell, they’re happy, too.

Thanks for reading. I hope it’s a good Thursday.