(1) The hoodie on the guy in front of me in line at the box-store auto center: Dear person behind me, the world is a better place with you in it — love, the person in front of you. (2) The book of Job on a rainy Sunday morning. (3) The first cup of light roast on said rainy Sunday morning. (4) The future prospects of cup #2. (5) My body, the vessel, the offering. (6) My wife. (7) My son. (8) Rain, btw! (9) I used to care about male pattern baldness and now I don’t. (10) Avocado toast. With some black beans on it (drained, rinsed). (11) Also peanut butter and bananas on toast. With a sprinkle of cinnamon. (12) Ezekiel bread (vessel, offering). (13) Cronometer. (14) Restorative sleep. (15) Patience. (16) One foot in front of the other. (17) A. Lincoln, still. (18) The concept that basic concepts are never basic — that “basic” is instead (basically) a palliative to create a semblance of close-enough certainty and conventional wisdom. (19) Complexity and… (20) Curiosity. (21) Pausing to judgment. (22) A good skull cap. (23) A jar of tomato sauce in the freezer. (24) A square of 100% cacao chocolate. (25) Transition. (26) Transformation. (27) Fall down seven times, get up eight. (28) The transcendent power of redundancy, which is to say… (29) the things that insistently and consistently recur on these lists, time after time, year after year, which is to say… (30) Cosmic reminders and the truth-telling still, small voice.
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