I recently visited my brother at University of Portland, where we sipped French press coffee and chatted in his dorm room. He said, "Yeah...I'm pretty much in a constant state of anxiety and stress." Me too. It unfortunately runs in our family. I am pretty much constantly in a state of some sort of anxiety, bouncing and wobbling and crawling along as I ride daily undulating waves of moodiness. Some days it feels like I can barely keep my head above the waves.
I look for little things to help. I recently found a blog that I really love. It reminds me of something my mom said over Christmas break - that things "aren't good or bad, they just are." One entry had a list of daily, simple things that the blogger likes. Here is my own, just from today:
1. The smell of woodsmoke.
2. Looking at the drunk, low-lidded way my dad's cat's eyes look when someone pets him.
3. Talking about Taoism and drinking black coffee with Hunter.
4. Seagulls.
5. The really really tall pine trees around our neighborhood.
6. Reading for fun.
7. My dad's action figures.
8. Making faces at Hunter in church.
9. Listening to Bec's Regina Spektor CD in the car.
10. That one new song about the sky by Animal Collective.
11. The thought of Ryan watching Twilight.
12. Flushing toilets.
13. Planetariums.
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Things I enjoyed tonight with you:
1. You kept on saying, "This is such a good book!"
2. You read the last page, slammed it down, and said, "Ugh! Awful!"
3. You then pushed the book to me and said, "Here, read it. It's really good!"
4. Blue cheese and French bread
5. just talking with you.
6. Watching Crying Wife online.
7. Driving to Roths because we're lazy.
8. Smelling ALL the candles in Roths
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