Happy one hundred

Because I can think of 100 things that make me happy about each of the important people in my life (I tested this out), I'll stick to 100 things that make me happy. I first published this list in two parts, which are now combined here:

1. strong oolong tea
2. windows
3. red poppies
4. Antoni Gaudi's architecture
5. grilled lamb chops
6. the Marais
7. etymology
8. beeswax candles
9. the Shema
10. my eyeglasses, which are still lost
11. chrism
12. Ella Fitzgerald singing anything but especially this:
13. neologisms (favorite: "insinuendo")
14. waking up
15. gel pens with purple ink
16. my blue bus, especially the beeping noise it makes as it backs up
17. the Benedictus
18. cuore de bue tomato seedlings
19. the Star Ferry
20. "Buckets of Rain" by Bob Dylan
21. water

one of Sharon's photos

22. char siu bao
23. parables
24. cerulean
25. "You Can't Take it With You," by Frank Capra
26. mango sorbet
27. origami paper
28. silence
29. the plantagenet font family
30. the number 6
31. the scent of rosemary
32. afghans my grandma crocheted
33. vocal harmony
34. Giverny
35. swashes
36. frizzi
37. the atrium
38. that I can learn
39. mosaics
40. Richard Olney cookbooks
41. atlases
42. children
43. jellyfish

Another of Sharon's photos

44. oil pastels
45. niçoise olives
46. tango music
47. perrenials
48. cabrioles
49. cello music
50. generations

51. chanterelles52. Glenn Gould playing two and three part inventions by Bach
53. bridges
54. a daytime moon
55. the Fibonacci sequence



















56. priests playing around
57. irises
58. wind
59. Tiffany glass
60. sleep
61. Solalex







































62. clove oil
63. marble

64. Parousia
65. robin nests































66. sixty-six








67. mayonaise
68. peaches
69. infinity
70. "The Wheel on the School" by Meindart DeJong
71. cloisters
72. cooking for friends
73. open air markets










































74. Pepe Romero playing anything
75. the unexpected
76. sonnets (here's one:)

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
• by e.e. cummings

77. the peak tram
78. Chucho Valdes playing solo
79. listening to Julian Carron80. hands
81. black dirt
82. singing with friends
83. cornichons 84. light
85. cats purring
86. the seminary coop
87. blue ice

88. royal jelly
89. moss

Photo by Sharon

90. Alyosha Karamazov
91. troubadour songs
92. paisley
93. berets
94. freckles
95. the letter s
96. garlic
97. batik
98. le buisson ardent
99. Babette's Feast
100. ellipses...