A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Good things today:

• The British Museum, a warehouse of reminders that people we consider "primitive" were generating artistic excellence long before Christ was born.
• The beautiful old art supply shop, est. 1855 and still going strong; wooden floors creaking with age under every footstep, hundreds of mahogany drawers full of fine pencils and whispering possibilities.
• The little girl who skipped along to the busker's music while everyone else blitzed past in a hurry for nothing.
• The Big Issue seller who hit the crosswalk button for an approaching couple burdened with luggage.  I don't think they noticed.  
• The scent of someone's Ralph Lauren Polo aftershave on the Tube. 
• Well-made boots that have served me well over six months of walking all over London, and seem likely to hold out for a few more weeks.
• Good music to hear
• Good food to eat
• Having dear people in my life to send postcards to.
• Having friends to meet at the pub.
• Having friends to just relax at home with a crochet project and another episode of "Friends."
• The London Underground.  It has its faults, but it really is pretty darn marvelous when you think about it. 
• Birthday flowers, still radiant three days later.
• A Turner sunset over Canary Wharf.

The good things, they're just everywhere for the counting.