A Thanksgiving Meditation: Things I Love

A Thanksgiving Meditation: Things I Love

English cheese
A good Cabernet
The smell of chrysanthemums
A clean house
Chelsea's warm skin when we hug
Scones and clotted cream
Intelligence
Freshly ground coffee, brewed in a French press, with cream
Sunflowers
Rachel's smile
Solitude and silence
Fresh walleye
Bookstores
Bison
Ethnic food
Navajo rugs and jewelry
Hiking
Public television and radio
Cooking
Chunky chocolate chip oatmeal cookies
Autumn
Lavender
Dogs
The Badlands
The books of Terry Tempest Williams and Robert Macfarlane
Clean sheets, best when dried on a clothesline outdoors
The Tetons
Roast pork
Lucinda Williams
British TV & movies
Wind rustling in cottonwood leaves
Costume dramas of all kinds
Jackson Browne's music
My Grandma Lily's rolling-pin
Good books, mostly non-fiction
Garden tomatoes
Photography
Carrot cake
The color turquoise
The New Yorker magazine
Kayaking
Libraries
The memory of Mama Crook's biscuits
Maps
Irish butter
Watching ocean waves breaking on a sandy beach
Americana music
My Mauviel copper pots
Rivers
Shelling and eating peas
Museums and galleries
Mangoes and Washington peaches
Stars
Prairie Smoke
Asparagus
Comfortable hiking boots
Sleep
Sagebrush
The Winter Olympics
Good newspapers
Juneberries
Vanderbilt University
History
Freshly baled hay
Ice cream
Hamilton (The Musical)
Wilderness
Petrichor
Rosemary and basil
Eudora Welty
Travel
My Google Pixel phone
Birds
Kindness
Fleece
Van Gogh
National parks
All things Great Britain
Yoga
Camping with Jim
Live music
Caldecott picture books
Fire in my woodstove
Dark chocolate
Tenting next to a rushing mountain stream
Gardening

(editorial note: I started this about two months ago, but almost didn't post when I saw Terry Dullum's similar blog -- then thought "nah, I'll go ahead")