• friends who ask wonderful questions!
• reading glasses!
• instant coffee!

– Anonymous 2021-10-08 11:55 UTC

• soup on a chilly day
• math
• smiling at a stranger and connecting

– Anonymous 2021-10-08 16:44 UTC

• the ocean
• being able to make a big mistake and then mostly recover
• round things

– Anonymous 2021-10-09 02:12 UTC

• Babies and puppies

– Anonymous 2021-10-10 12:15 UTC

• patience
• libraries

– Anonymous 2021-10-10 23:10 UTC

• spicy peppers 🌶 that make my head suddenly sweat
• safe & clean tap water 💦
• clouds ☁️ that have funny shapes

– Anonymous 2021-10-11 22:03 UTC

• helping friends do hard things
• "God Rays" 🌅

– Anonymous 2021-10-12 10:29 UTC

• fingers that can interlace and fold together
• the idea that one thing can stand for another thing
• salt water

– Anonymous 2021-10-13 10:51 UTC

• cool morning air
• online recipes
• air kisses

– Anonymous 2021-10-13 14:30 UTC

• emoji 🥀 that 📚 can 🌊 be 🐳 used 🐇 to ✨ convey 🌷 multiple 🎵 meanings 🎶 among ➿ friends 🐙

– Anonymous 2021-10-13 19:19 UTC

• silly games and rituals
• bundles of DNA walking around the surface of a planet
• alliteration

– Anonymous 2021-10-15 10:48 UTC

• the emptiness between the stars
• chemicals to nudge brain chemistry toward a happier equilibrium
• cookies and kittens

– Anonymous 2021-10-16 09:55 UTC

• extrapolation
• trading stuff for other stuff with other people

– Anonymous 2021-10-16 10:26 UTC

• tasty food
• stories

– Anonymous 2021-10-17 10:26 UTC

• blankets
• perpendiculars

– Anonymous 2021-10-18 10:10 UTC

• distant friends who are present in memory
• geometry
• sugary tastes

– Anonymous 2021-10-20 10:25 UTC

• circles
  
• umami
  
• hugs

– Anonymous 2021-10-20 14:36 UTC

• bunnies & rabbits & coneys & hares 🐇🐇🐇
• language & poems & codes
• patterns & shapes
• this
  

– Anonymous 2021-10-21 11:48 UTC

• emergency safety devices (smoke alarms, backup parachutes, automobile handbrakes, ...)
• people who say "Yes, and ..."
• gravity and levity

– Anonymous 2021-10-22 10:01 UTC

• slack (i.e., unused resources, spare time, engineering reserves)

– Anonymous 2021-10-22 18:39 UTC

• silly shared adventures

– Anonymous 2021-10-23 18:26 UTC

from John McWhorter's NY Times column:

• complexity
• abstraction
• forgiveness

– Anonymous 2021-10-27 10:32 UTC

• balance

– Anonymous 2021-10-31 09:56 UTC

• beauty

– Anonymous 2021-11-01 12:30 UTC

• reification & taxonomies & metacognition & supererogation
• causality & chance & conflict
• doorways & thresholds

– Anonymous 2021-11-01 15:58 UTC

• losing with grace & respect
• winning with grace & respect
• trying again

– Anonymous 2021-11-03 11:06 UTC

• fundamental particles
• unique moments
• salt

– Anonymous 2021-11-04 10:04 UTC

• spreadsheets
• colloidal suspensions
• short skirts and long jackets

– Anonymous 2021-11-05 10:45 UTC

• giving and receiving gifts
• tolerance
• grace

– Anonymous 2021-11-06 10:48 UTC

• sunrise
• birds
• time

– Anonymous 2021-11-10 11:38 UTC

• bread
• breath
• breadth

– Anonymous 2021-11-11 11:06 UTC

• rereading
• reheating
• rewarding

– Anonymous 2021-11-13 10:37 UTC

• BLUF ("Bottom Line Up Front" executive summary)
• volume controls
• ambiguity

– Anonymous 2021-11-14 11:53 UTC

• utensils
• aureoles (and areolas)
• anagrams

– Anonymous 2021-11-15 11:16 UTC

• clothing
• nakedness
• bricks

– Anonymous 2021-11-17 11:46 UTC

• yin & yang
• shadows
• milk

– Anonymous 2021-11-19 10:34 UTC

• styles (in fashion and in fonts)
• variance (in life and in statistics)
• hot and sour soup

– Anonymous 2021-11-20 12:27 UTC

• sounds
• tablecloths
• open doors

– Anonymous 2021-11-21 10:48 UTC

• the Moon
• friends who suggest thoughtful books to read
• patience

– Anonymous 2021-11-22 11:59 UTC

• repetition
• scales & scaling
• puns

– Anonymous 2021-11-23 12:22 UTC

• photography
• the future
• spoons

– Anonymous 2021-11-24 11:21 UTC

• love
• Thanksgiving Day
• noir

– Anonymous 2021-11-25 12:41 UTC

• privacy
• trust
• truth

– Anonymous 2021-11-27 00:44 UTC

• prayers
• alliances
• fingernails

– Anonymous 2021-11-30 11:45 UTC

the beauty of the Universe at so many scales of spacetime:

• galaxies 🌌 forming 13+ billion years ago ...
• sentient mindful loving creatures that are simultaneously bundles of DNA 🧬 roaming the crust of a rocky-watery planet ...
• electrons & protons & neutrons & quarks & photons, building atoms ⚛️ that build molecules that build bodies & worlds & stars and ...

... so much to be grateful for! 😇✨

– Anonymous 2021-12-04 16:23 UTC

• remembering
• forgetting
• forgiving

– z 2021-12-24 02:02 UTC

• exercise and exercises
• spicy food and comfort food
• syllogisms and silliness

– z 2022-02-08 11:14 UTC

Otium:

Otium, a Latin abstract term, has a variety of meanings, including leisure time in which a person can enjoy eating, playing, relaxing, contemplation and academic endeavors. It sometimes, but not always, relates to a time in a person's retirement after previous service to the public or private sector, opposing "active public life". Otium can be a temporary time of leisure, that is sporadic. It can have intellectual, virtuous or immoral implications. It originally had the idea of withdrawing from one's daily business (neg-otium) or affairs to engage in activities that were considered to be artistically valuable or enlightening (i.e. speaking, writing, philosophy). It had particular meaning to businessmen, diplomats, philosophers and poets.

– z 2022-02-09 12:32 UTC

• tea cups with pictures of flowers on them
• Hello Kitty
• pets

– z 2022-02-22 12:50 UTC

• love and friendship
• the opportunity to give
• telescopes and microscopes

– z 2022-02-25 11:39 UTC

• causality
• 🌈 🔄 🦄
• metacognition

– z 2022-02-27 11:30 UTC

• self ... and others
• chaos ... and patterns
• identity ... and differences

– z 2022-02-28 11:21 UTC

• the "Forward" button for email
• double negatives
• opposite charges that attract

– z 2022-03-02 11:16 UTC

• "All things counter, original, spare, strange" (Pied Beauty, Gerard Manly Hopkins)
• instant coffee
• friends

– z 2022-03-03 11:56 UTC

• doors and gates and windows and hallways and portals and openings
• hugs and tickles and cuddles and touches
• conclusions and completions

– z 2022-03-06 11:13 UTC

• Streaks (and Breaking a Streak)
• Word Games
• Clothing in Disarray (cf Delight in Disorder, Robert Herrick (1591-1674))

– z 2022-03-08 11:40 UTC

• dear wife, aka Paulette – lifetime companion, teacher of compassion, giver of joy

^z - 2023-06-11