4/9: morning & evening

Receiving a Facebook message this morning from a mail-art friend who took a picture of clouds reflected on water and wanted to share it with me to let me know she was thinking of me.

Smelling flowers in the night air when I got home from an evening work-session at school.

4/8: remarking

...on the amazing weather with a colleague heading to their car at the same time I was.  We lingered and talked about various things, appreciating the chance to pass a few words while enjoying the air and light and greenness.

4/7: mint tea with honey and soymilk

...to ease my throat after pills seemed stuck part-way down.

4/6: being relieved

...that one of the cats didn't swallow a little toy that I worried they had.

4/5: having stollen

...for breakfast.  I made it yesterday but didn't try it until this morning.  It baked well (which was particularly happy, since the stollen loaves I made at Christmas and New Year were less successful, though still good).  Before putting it in a tight container last night, I drizzled it with a lemon juice + powdered sugar glaze (something I usually forgo in order to cut down on sugar), and it was the right extra touch.

4/4: waiting

...until today to read yesterday's poem in A Poem for Every Day of the Year.  When I opened the book yesterday morning and saw that it was a multiple-page "nonsense" poem by Edward Lear, I felt like I wasn't in the right place to read it and enjoy it.  This morning I was.

4/3: a better day

...than yesterday.

4/2: some beauty

...at the end of a very unsettling day.  As some lucky relief, for my last bit of work this evening I got to read the end of Hawthorne's Wonder Book.