Table of Contentedness: July

A list of things seen, savored, and loved in July.

• Late afternoon naps, and waking up to sun—a most delicious feeling
• Shaken brown espressos from a bubblegum pink truck
• Time to myself
• Jacaranda confetti on streets, still striking in violet hues despite the heat
• Blogging again
• This candle 
• Slants of sunlight, in shades of pale neon orange on eggshell walls
• Writing in silence
• Packages in the mail
• Smelling beautiful things
• Vegan alfajores, gingerly hand-carried in from Argentina by my partner
• Butterflies flitting about, like little fairies
• Thai-spicy dinners, despite (and somehow, all the tastier in) the heat
• Buying books and print magazines
• Growing stacks of books and print magazines, waiting for the perfect time and mood to be read (only readers will understand the thrill)
• This perfume
• A coffee date with an old colleague who watched me grow up; she ordered a black sesame matcha, and I had the espresso version (which just about sums us up)
• Realizing that I’d been writing online for 18 years
• … and the sweet, sweet messages of women who took time out of their day to share that they had been reading for almost as long
• A good cry, which feels more poetic (and somehow, freeing) in summer
• This reminder
• Wild arugula dressed with Ya Albi Extra Virgin Olive Oil, nutritional yeast, and an overdose of cracked black pepper
• Plumcots, devoured in juicy, plummy pairs
• Golden kiwi, savored with as much pleasure
• Knowing that in the infinity of where I am—all is whole, perfect, and complete

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xx