Happiness is

Happiness is. Scratch that. Too ambitious. A happy day is:

1. Little things that don’t make you want to grumble.
2. Out of reach things that move in a little closer.
3. The tingling warmth of filtered sun playing peekaboo with the clouds.
4. As in a dream sequence, the unannounced thought bubble of a friend which causes you to send a silent virtual squeeze.
5. Insisting your body GO and then testifying to it going further than it wants.
6. The disarming appreciation of what was supposed to be a semi-random act of kindness.
7. The likeness of someone you once knew in the face of a stranger.
8. When direction doesn’t come in stereo, but becomes audible as the faint sound of bass when your ear presses down into the pillow.
9. The delight of a freshly sharpened pencil and a well-worn Moleskine.
10. The conviction, even if more fleeting than you want, that everything has the potential to cut both ways.