• getting headscritches
  • playing with people's hair
  • putting my hands on the surface of cold water
  • WARM DRYER CLOTHES (also, on occasion, climbing in the dryer)
  • taking your pants off
  • bare feet in mud, or grass, or puddles
  • putting on chapstick
  • long quiet car rides
  • lighting matches
  • being fully rested
  • that first hit of caffeine in the morning
  • new socks
  • smelling the back of isis's neck
  • hot showers
  • being all excercised out
  • the sound of pens on paper
  • tearing paper perfectly
  • haircuts
  • wind under my hands in the car
  • pine tree scent
  • having a scarf big enough to drape over my head and neck like a cowl
  • hot tea on a cold night
  • baking something perfectly
  • getting compliments from my sister
  • songs that make me remember a certain moment (kinda like If Only or like White Cedar or Transcendental Youth. Or All Star.)
  • falling asleep near someone you love (six days until i get to see my best friend)
  • finishing a good book
  • thunderstorms
  • heartbeats, pulse lines, the sound of cities in the way train cars roll over tracks
  • the color contrasts of summer: dark brown mud and white sidewalk, skin against grass, greens of tree and blues of sky
  • the complete muscular exhaustion after swimming (man i need to get back into martial arts, or running, or something)
  • relief - not having to do something you were worried about
  • old book feel
  • seeing book annotations
  • crunchy leaves and crunchy ice
  • fairy lights
  • sunshine feel
  • that mud-and-wind smell of late march
  • waking up and realizing it's raining
  • seeing stars (six days)(i hope - do you see stars in olympia?)
  • drinking water
  • HISTORY (esp ancient nonwestern history)
  • swingsets
  • fireplaces
  • holding hands (six fucking days)
  • lying on the floor in places you're not supposed to
  • goofing off in places you're not supposed to and feeling okay about it -like being able to be a total nerd in mr telles room and spinning around and being a dork and it's all cool, everyone there feels it too, they're your friends and they like you
  • the ocean, always, every day
  • reuniting (six days)
  • roller coasters
  • groking something
  • gifts that are so thoughtful they make you cry
  • fog (the smell and feel of california)
  • smooth rocks
  • figuring out a mystery
  • self-dependence - like learning to cook, or cleaning up, or making money. it's nice to have other people and interdependence is important but tbqh I think being able to realize that yeah, you CAN do something- that's beautiful, that's amazing
  • reading letters from the past
  • quiet time alone
feb 1 2014 ∞
jul 8 2014 +