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- confused head tilt animals do
- books that tie up all their loose ends
- altocumulus cloud shadows (under the clouds and on the ground)
- finding a great poem posted randomly on someone's blog from years ago
- lost pieces of paper that give me a glimpse into someone's life (e.g. shopping list) (this happens less now with digitisation)
- library reading nooks
- the way light reflected off water dances
- the way light refracted underwater dances
- getting dumped on the beach by a rough wave
- when you park your car in nature and when the engine turns off you're overwhelmed by how different the forest noise is to what you're used to
- mountain air smell
- seeing kids' birthday parties at public parks
- interactions with staff at museums/art galleries
- picnics!!!!!!
- getting the last few boba out of the cup without having to poke around and slurp them up awkwardly
- poems that make me look at something differently, especially something i regularly see
- nicely arranged bookshelves
- farmers markets with good fresh vegetables and handmade local things
- identifying species (like if someone points out a particular plant/bird/etc.)
- when words for things in other languages are cuter than they are in english (korean word for plane spanish word for duckling etc)
- stained glass windows at the perfect time of day
- the new york times puzzles (wordle, connections, vertex etc.)
- realising it's raining outside a closed window
- randomly thinking to check chickensmoothie right when the lost&found or pound are open
- the kid's sections at public libraries
- being in the right kind of crush of people (a dance floor, a concert)
- the little birds that hang out around the ferries in the city (they're called welcome swallows!)
- when artists have to pause for a moment to catch their breath because a crowd is screaming/singing along so loudly and passionately
- looking out across the bay at night and seeing the port lights twinkling in the distance like horizon-hugging stars
- people holding hands while ice skating/roller blading
- the little hop-hop birds do when they're trying to run away but don't want to have to fly
- sitting on walls looking at a landscape/cityscape/sky
- waking up naturally and early having slept really, really well - that feeling of stretching in bed and delighting in being awake
- greeting people at train stations/airports
- pop top juice
- being read to/reading to someone
- isabella giving the announcements on acnh
- the particular twangy thunk of hitting a tennis ball right in the middle of a tennis raquet
- doodling on sticky notes (why is it so much better than other doodling?!)
- making eye contact with someone and both trying so hard not to burst out laughing for no reason
- kpop fancams where they look like they're having the time of their lives
- people earnestly referring to me by the wrong name over the phone at work
- parallel play video gaming on different consoles in total silence except muttered curses when something goes wrong
- sunlight filtering through a canopy of various greens, layered and rich
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