As part of an exercise from a book on improving your writing, I had to draw up three lists: things I am grateful for, things I wish for, and things I fear. Well, I did the lists, admittedly with the skepticism I reserve for touchy-feely exercises, and thought they might make interesting reading for Never on Sunday. Then I decided some of those items were too personal to share with everyone who has a modem, but I wasn't ready to give up the basic idea. Here, then, are a few lists of little things, things that don't warrant a prime-time news article or an hour on the analyst's couch or deep attachment.
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Five Small Things That Make Me Grin
- changing of the seasons
- buying a candy bar
- Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex (essay)
- hitting a golf ball on the moon
- ethnically mixed names, like Guiseppe Rothberger, or Olga Velasquez
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Five Small Things That Piss Me Off
- dog doo-doo on the sidewalk
- the way garlic makes my fingertips smell for two days after mincing it
- bad science fiction
- people who don't take care of borrowed books
- the substitution of ?anxious? for ?eager?
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Five Small Things Everybody But Me Finds Appealing
- music videos
- pine nuts
- musicals
- Friends (TV)
- luxury cruises
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Five Small Things I Haven't Done In A Long Time
- draw
- spent Saturday morning watching cartoons
- dreamt about college
- eaten a large, luxurious breakfast
- listened to Doors music
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Five Favorites
- Cherry Garcia
- Adeste Fidelis
- October
- Daffy Duck
- Mollweide projection