30 Things I Love Right Now: Season of Thanks c. 2025 (A Fifth Offering)

(1)Blizzard” by William Carlos Williams. New favorite poem by him. (2) Making new things of my own. (3) Multimedia things. (4) Fulcrum, the word. (5) Falling back. (6) Dark coming early. (7) The moon this week. (8) The fog this week. Literal, figurative. (9) When the storm of illness passes in me. (10) Oranges. (11) Praying (still). (12) Breathing (still). (13) Talking to my sister. (14) Clean, folded clothes. (15) First sightings and other glimpses of the people I love the most. (16) The prospect of plunging temperatures. (17) Analog intelligences. (18) Medjool dates. Better than candy. (19) Family movie day (tomorrow). (20) “Gum” by Jean Toomer. (21) “The Far Field” by Theodore Roethke. (22) Time. (23) Aging. (24) Maturing. (25) Senescence (mindful, graceful, intentional: please see #26-28 below). Also just the sound of the word itself. (26) It’s never as bad or as good as it seems. (27) Practice. (28) Courage. (29) Susurration, the word. (30) Movement.