Water light trees

Camp fire, with fresh water
Stars, moon, trees, waves, mountains, fireflies
Growler, music smile

The stars are shining bright tonight for anyone who is away from city lights and currently free from those clouds which earlier brought water and rainbows.  Are they glowing for you?  I am thanking them along with the moon here in this canoe

I've said it before and I'll say it again: canoes, kayaks and fresh water, preferably with some mountains around.  Sunshine is a welcome energy, whether direct or on the face of the moon or emitting warmth as a distant star

I truly feel very lucky to have so many amazing souls in my life

Very thankful, indeed

I ordered a chicken and broccoli slice of pizza during my second lunch break (instead of an hour, we get separate thirty minute breaks during consecutive 4 hour classes).  You pay at the front and wait for your order to be ready.

It took a little longer than usual today, so when they finally called out "ready" I walked over and grabbed the box without thinking.

When I arrived back in the employee lounge, I opened it to discover two pepperoni slices.  I hope whoever's order I took enjoys chicken and broccoli.

My initial disappointment was quickly replaced by the reminder that A.) 2 is more than 1 and B.) It's my dad's birthday today.

His favorite slice is pepperoni (and sausage), and he thinks it should be a crime to put broccoli on a pizza.  So I shrugged my shoulders, saluted my dad, and ate what was on my plate

Sometimes I wonder what the words "follow your bliss" really ask one to do.  The paradox is that often, in order to do so, you have to do things that aren't that blissful.  I guess that's what life's about to some extent.

I appreciate the bliss of my hometown so much more after having left.  Growing up, it was boring old Cambridge.  Having seen the depressing slums of New Delhi and the crowded streets of Tokyo, I now believe I grew up in the most beautiful area in the world.

Stars have some extra dazzle to them after all these years of being deprived of them in the city.  I can't understand why billionaires like apartments in cities.  If I had that kind of wealth, I would either need to be outside the city or in a skyscraper so high that I transcended light pollution.

Speaking of which, when I see fireflies, I get excited like a child on Christmas morning, as friends furrow their brows in confusion.  Lately they've been a contributing factor to sleep deprivation, because they only come for part of the year, and when they're flashing all around the fields like cameras at an Olympic Stadium and the half moon is smiling through the haze, it's hard to justify going inside.

Hearing tree frogs and bull frogs were normal growing up.  Now, after several years of sirens, car horns and boom boxes blaring on Broadway, those frogs sound like heaven to me.

Perhaps one of the greatest inventions ever known to man is the couch.  I wouldn't have said that growing up, because I took our multiple couches for granted.  I've barely had couches in the past eight years, that is, if you don't count when I was couch surfing.  When I do visit a place with a comfortable couch, I feel as though I am indulging kingly pleasures.

Best of all, I'm about to see some friends I haven't seen in a long time.  One of them is coming from an island in the Pacific.  I wouldn't say any of them are as amazing as this couch, but I still love them, and we'll all probably be sitting on one anyway