toda raba
Taking ten minutes to give thanks for ten wonderful things:
(1) The first review of Measured Extravagance, by Marissa Lingen.
(2) It's
kass's birthday!
(3) ...and her Hebrew skills just came to my rescue. (So many languages, so little mental storage space...)
(4) Revisiting my memories of Tmol Shilshom (The Day Before Yesterday), a bookstore-cafe she recommended.
From tmol shilshom
(5) Iced coffee and the arago sandwich (bagel, tomato, avocado, provolone) at Portland Brew.
(6) Arcade Fire on the PA system. Remembering four years ago, hearing the same song ("Lies") for the first time in a Kentucky coffeeshop. Thankfulness for that coffeeshop being there when I needed it, there being neither internet nor non-fossilized caffeine products in my mother's house). Thankfulness that I'm no longer commuting between Kentucky and Tennessee.
(7) I'm sitting in front of a painting that contains both the Loch Ness monster and a rubber ducky. (I don't understand yet why it's named after Michio Kaku, but I'll look it up...)
(8) The replacement battery for my laptop has arrived.
(9) Receiving word of a new publisher for experimental poetry. (I participated in a reading with Jane last spring where she channeled Johnny Cash. Has to be seen to be believed.)
(10) One acceptance this week; three rejections. So much gratitude to the people who circulate, promote, and recommend my work; gratefulness, too, at receiving the "no"s, since they let me and those pieces move on.
This entry was originally posted at http://zirconium.dreamwidth.org/8758.html.
(1) The first review of Measured Extravagance, by Marissa Lingen.
(2) It's
kass's birthday!
(3) ...and her Hebrew skills just came to my rescue. (So many languages, so little mental storage space...)
(4) Revisiting my memories of Tmol Shilshom (The Day Before Yesterday), a bookstore-cafe she recommended.
From tmol shilshom
(5) Iced coffee and the arago sandwich (bagel, tomato, avocado, provolone) at Portland Brew.
(6) Arcade Fire on the PA system. Remembering four years ago, hearing the same song ("Lies") for the first time in a Kentucky coffeeshop. Thankfulness for that coffeeshop being there when I needed it, there being neither internet nor non-fossilized caffeine products in my mother's house). Thankfulness that I'm no longer commuting between Kentucky and Tennessee.
(7) I'm sitting in front of a painting that contains both the Loch Ness monster and a rubber ducky. (I don't understand yet why it's named after Michio Kaku, but I'll look it up...)
(8) The replacement battery for my laptop has arrived.
(9) Receiving word of a new publisher for experimental poetry. (I participated in a reading with Jane last spring where she channeled Johnny Cash. Has to be seen to be believed.)
(10) One acceptance this week; three rejections. So much gratitude to the people who circulate, promote, and recommend my work; gratefulness, too, at receiving the "no"s, since they let me and those pieces move on.
This entry was originally posted at http://zirconium.dreamwidth.org/8758.html.