*the preposterous rituals that people resort to to get rid of hiccups
*not just seizing the day but making the day
*grown-ups with kids' imaginations
*when the fourth wheel on the shopping cart refuses to cooperate with the other three
*the joy of discovering a second layer of chocolates underneath the first
*not having to talk just to keep the conversation going
*little boxes of breakfast cereal
*holding hands on the way home from a concert
*sniffing the air to see if snow is coming
*stirring up the dust in your room while the sun shines through a hole in the curtain
*falling crazily, id-kill-or-be-killed-for-that-man in love
*the amusing shaking of a person's bottom while sharpening a pencil
*centrifugal force
*sentiment and a sense of history
*acquiescence
*smiling at someone who never smiles at you
*fog: technically nothing but a cloud in contact with the earth
*the desperation of a love letter
*weird biology teachers
*just one day of looking terrific
*stowing away memories of wonderful moments
*saying whats on your mind
*the special symbols used by cartoonists to replace swear words
*the things we dont talk about for fear others wont understand
*discovring that there is no real difference in the various cycles of your washing machine
*sitting down and thinking out an attitude of yours that you're not sure of
*when the lion lies down with the lamb
*roads becoming black velvet ribbons with winking frost sequins
*the moon etching whimsical heiroglyphics on the snow beneath naked trees
*dreaming of dancing at the royal ball and midnight never comes
*atomosphere
*silos, like giant thermoses on the dairyland table
*being devoted to something outside yourself
*turning your pillow over and over, looking for a cool spot
*anticipation being the greater joy
*giving love to someone being enough
*being aware of wonder
*inhaling maximum amounts of sea air to stimulate the appetite
*eating what you like and letting the food fight it out inside
*speaking loudly to foreigners as if it somehow makes you easier to understand
*having an advantage over every other girl
*the impossible encounters that live in the imagination and somehow become reality