Ten Simple Things That Make Me Smile

1. hiking five or six miles through the woods by the water
2. eating vegetable barley soup when my stomach growls
3. learning that the basic human problems are just that—basic and human
4. reading and writing for a living
5. teaching but not grading
6. drinking Mountain Dew still keeps me awake
7. sleeping in past 7AM
8. riding my bike faster than the bus
9. averting my eyes when discussions are uncomfortable
10. wishing the one language I took was French

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