Simple joys make a simple noise

Homework assignment from Easy Street: Create a list of simple things that you love and take for granted;

• being able to walk and run without pain
• the smell of coffee (hate the taste)
• my husband vacuuming before my Girl Scout meeting
• cold water
• hot water
• the big maple outside my house
• my parent's love
• God's love (I know it is always there, but sometimes I take it for granted!)
  
• music - continuous and unceasing - either in reality or in my head (where reality only sometimes resides!)
  
• the feel of rain on my skin (I've played in it, hiked in it and thought in it...it is a gift)
  
• the steady ticking of the old Calumet clock in the kitchen
• memories, old and new and yet to come
  
• the ability to read and learn and remember (my daughter's dyslexia has made me more aware of the joys these abilities impart)
  
• laughter! Both laughing and hearing it...it truly is a fairy's birth.