Reasons to be happy

[loneraven]

There is a poem by Lisel Mueller that begins, "Speaking of marvels / I am alive together with you." More prosaically, the the Times spent some column space this week on how, all things considered, life's not so badSo. I am alive. I am in Edinburgh, a city I love enough to think wistfully about the necessity of my being an English lawyer. Yesterday

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[soupytwist]

This post is just lovely.

To add to your list: I have a slice of hot buttered toast on a plate, and warm socks, and a radiator, and a bed, and a whole world of awesome things to read. :)

[loneraven]

*grins* Thank you, and thank you for your joys!

[msilverstar]

I still don't have to learn to knit.

We should start a non-knitters support group. We're surrounded!

[loneraven]

*laughs* I am surrounded by knitters in recent years, and their lives seem so much harder than mine.

[kaberett]

You're wonderful.

[loneraven]

I'm really not, but thank you for thinking so. :)

[dormouse_in_tea]

I remain so very, very, very grateful to the universe that you are able to be yourself and happy again.

[loneraven]

*blushes* Thank you, darling. I am glad of it too.

[cscottd]

The Doctor Who Christmas special was lovely and had only the tinest bits that needed smacking.

I quite liked it.

[loneraven]

Me too! The only thing that made me want to give people smacks was that bit about Rosita as "nursemaid". So very... presumptive.

[loneraven]

Re-reading it yesterday, I was struck by the wit and humour of the thing. It's much funnier than I remember it being when I was a teenager...