today’s beautiful dozen:

01 a morning where i can sleep until i wake up without an alarm
02 running in the rain — it wasn’t too cold and it was great fun splashing through the puddles
03 having a rare few hours of quiet on a sunday to run, make breakfast, bake bread, and lounge on the couch with B
04 the magic way that bread dough rises with the help of a few tiny grains of yeast
05 zeke, who spent the whole day on the couch, snuggled against B or i and purring his fool head off
06 a bowl of sticky white rice that came with my sushi order tonight. simple, wholesome-tasting food.
07 the shining, glowing happiness in the faces of my friends Hannah and Shane, in the photos they posted on facebook today annoucning the upcoming arrival of their first little one
08 having my office to myself — come monday morning it will be back to it’s normal crowded chaos, but on a sunday night i’m the only one here, my desk is clean, the fluorescent panels are off, i’m free to work or goof off or blog or whatever i want
09 the baby-sized chicken-leg-viking hat that i’m knitting for our friends Scotty and Lori’s new baby
10 the arrival of daylight savings time, and the beginning of long, lit evenings
11 the beautiful photography of Joe Mazza
12 Carol’s Cookies