happy thoughts

happiness, peace of mind are in short supply these days. i am making a list of things that bring sunshine to my life. unfailingly.

• heidi
• thorn birds
• darrell, of malory towers
• custard-apples (my face scrub these days smells of custard-apple. it must be accidental, 'cause the label doesn't say custard-apple, but the smell is unmistakable)
• romeo and juliet (the dire straits)
• listening to romeo and juliet in bonn zentrum
• old friends
• the rhine
• the monsoons
• singing, for no one's ears
• wodehouse, especially the empress
• especially anuva and wodehouse
• poetry, the billy collins kind
• also poetry written by first-time poets
• mom and dad
• young love
• neil halstead
• and david gray, especially babylon
• phonecalls from friends, made without reason
• did i mention love?
• aanya and aniket
• looks that say what words cannot
• singing "listen to the rhythm of the falling rain" in mater dei, with the rain falling outside and the windows in the big hall all open, letting in the cool air and mist
• taru, the epitome of sweetness and warmth
• fall leaves strewn all over, in the cold rain of berkeley, when all is fresh and new
• well, sunshine
• fields of sunflowers
• and that one sunflower that you picked for me
• "for the longest time", 1998
• 18, elfstrasse
• kennedybrucke
• rheinallee, and its smoking cigarettes
• aicha, in the plane
• the pavement in the main quad
• vik's every saturday morning
• or being picked up every saturday morning for vik's
• rheinaue

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no that's not all, but that's enough. for now.