Grace in Small Things 49:365

1. April issue of Real Simple!

2. the way the sun shines through the low-lying fog, making it look like golden spun sugar.

3. this quote:
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
(Eleanor Roosevelt)

4. the unexpected people who show up on Facebook.

5. turning up this song in the car on the way home from work (where everyone was a crankypants yesterday) & singing along just blasts away any chance of letting the bad moods of others spoil my cheerfulness:

She's not afraid
She just likes to use her night light
When she gets paid
True religion gets it all
If they fit right
She's a little bit manic
Completely organic
Doesn't panic for the most part

She's old enough to know
And young enough not to say no
To any chance that she gets
For home plate tickets to see the Mets
Like everybody she's in over her head
Dreads Feds, Grateful Dead,
And doesn't take meds

She's a Gemini Capricorn
Thinks all men are addicted to porn
I don't agree with her half the time
But damn I'm glad she's mine

Her eyes
That's where hope lies
That's where blue skies
Meet the sunrise
Her eyes
That's where I go
When I go home

She got the kinda strength
That every man wishes he had
She loved Michael Jackson
Up until he made Bad

Tells me that she lived
About a hundred lives
Scares me to death
When she thinks and drives
Says cowboy hats
Make her look fat
And I'm so glad she's mine.

Her eyes
That's where hope lies
That's where blue skies
Meet the sunrise
Her eyes
That's where I go
When I go home

She doesn't know the word 'impossible'
Don't care where I've been
And doesn't care where we're goin' to
She takes me as I am
And that ain't easy
And she's beautiful...
So beautiful

And sometimes I think she's truly crazy
And I love it

Her eyes
That's where hope lies
That's where blue skies
Always meet the sunrise
Her eyes
That's where I go
When I go home

Her eyes
That's where hope lies
That's where blue skies
Always meet the sunrise
Her eyes
That's where I go
When I go home

She's not afraid
She just likes to use her night light
("Her Eyes," Pat Monahan)


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