february...

as readers and fellow flock members know, february and i have a mutual distrust and hatred for each other - i try my best to endure and the longest month of the year does its best to defeat me... as an antidote to the dismay imparted by this interminable month i have complied a list of moments... happiness is... ...cooking with my grandmother ...the perfect glass of pinot grigio ...medieval french poetry ...blood oranges ...a hot cup of tea on a cold day that i don't have to be out in ...shopping with my sister ...summer stars in the high desert ...slow food ...my mountains ...the sound of the ocean ...dancing until i can barely move ...hula-hooping ...soup and sourdough ...happily ever after ...the sound of the rain ...late night conversations ...green growy things ...visiting someplace i have never been before ...heirloom roses ...ripe, summer peaches ...other peoples stories ...red carnations ...old, character-filled houses ...cooking for the people i love ...a list as fleeting and incomplete as happiness itself...