five good things
1. A very small, very cute little boy who hopped off the T at Park Street yesterday and called “Thank you!” to the driver. “That was very nice,” his mom said.
2. The other day I was cleaning my office and I found a $100 gift card to Williams Sonoma which I somehow had forgotten I had, or thought was empty, or something? Anyway, it felt like God was telling me to order a waffle iron, so I did. If you want to come over for waffles you’re invited.
3. It’s Lent. I love Lent because it means spring is coming, and also because it’s a time for projects, and I love projects. I’m doing a Lent project. It’s small but good. I’ll let you know how it goes.
4. The other night I was cutting an orange and I had the strongest smell memory of sitting on the couch with my dad eating
oranges and watching ER when I was in high school. It made me miss my dad and my house and being a teenager and Noah Wyle’s handsomely beaky face, but more than that it made me happy. It was a good orange.
5. One more from the T, which can frankly use all the good things it can get: last night I was on the Red Line when a girl in her twenties approached an old lady sitting across from me, said, “Excuse me, I’m just gonna…” then knelt down and re-velcroed the old lady’s boot.
I want to be like that girl. I want us all to be like that girl. Happy weekend.