Twenty-Nine Delights

Created Nov 28, 2024. Updated Apr 16, 2025.

To walk in the park on Saturday or Sunday in spring or summer when everyone—families barbecuing, athletes exercising, ambling cartpushers, picnicking romantics—are out there too.
To cook with music on and someone to talk to while you stir fry.
To spend a morning together, then return and rest, then change outfits and go out again for evening plans.

Ladyfingers dipped in black coffee.
To exit a building and find sunshine after class.
Banter. Riffs and bits. Callbacks.
To surrender to severe weather.
To spend a Saturday or Sunday morning reading and drinking tea in a quiet, peaceful apartment where every room is awash with only indirect natural light from the sun.
To finally get out of the house at noon, and find the day sunny and warm.
To drive your friends around town.
To take a night walk on a perfectly crisp and cool evening. (Or, in winter, after fresh snowfall).

To commute home at night later than you’d like but you can play your favorite music as loud as you’d like in your ears.
To attend a party where you know almost everyone.

To lay together, half asleep, listening to music.
To host an event for your friends—to put your heart and reputation on the line in the pursuit of community and have it succeed through the power of sheer love.
To read a book outside in the grass under the dappled light of a tree.

The rest of the Twenty-Nine Delights will be revealed as I discover them…