seventeen things I will always love passionately no matter what anybody else says:

some weekends, you have to sit down and reevaluate who you are. this may seem like a daunting task, but, in condensed form it can be done by listing seventeen things. these seventeen are things that make you wildly, shamelessly happy. here is my very brief list, very not-comprehensive, but still true list:

1. rollerskating. anywhere, anytime, on anything, with anyone…maybe not the last part.

2. kombucha. also: cheerwine.

3. goats, beekeeping (personal life goal: be a beekeeper AND a goat-keeper. also, have seven children and visit dollywood and be the sexy tambourine player in a band, although this last one seems less likely to pan out).

4. mike snow, animal

5. the following people that I do not know but would probably be best friends with: wendell berry, flannery o’connor, jonathan safran foer, tina fey, laura ingalls wilder, eudora welty, sufjan stevens, annie dilliard, andy samberg, virginia woolf, ira glass, john muir and m.i.a, or whatever her real name is.

6. station wagons made before 1980, paticularly when they are painted middle blue or bright red. that’s right; I’m talking to you, mr. and mrs. davidson.

7. this lil vixen of a dress

8. learning to fly, tom petty. also, free falling, because it’s important not to neglect that.

9. the following: jorts, rompers, overalls, birkenstocks.

10. npr

11. canning, making bread, making granola, eating granola, looking at granola in beautiful mason jars

12. the fluorescent green of lettuce against the earth

13. YELLOW legal pads. none of that white-legal pad business

14. people who know how to add ‘z’ to the end of their words to an appropriate extent.

15. cosmic cantina

16. spectacular full moons

17. deer antlers as wall art. even though I am a vegetarian.

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it’s a helpful exercise, this listing of seventeen things.