A List of Very Good Things (pt. 1):

With no explanation because it’s my list. Make your own (I’d love to see it).

1. Anytime Sam Rockwell dances (or does anything really). Like here, here, or here. Look at the way he moves through space. Gawd. I’d do anything that man told me to do. He wouldn’t even have to dance first.

2. On the subject of dance, this one that Andy Samberg does in Palm Springs. It’s the very epitome of goofy competence and I am heavily into it. Act like this around me and I’ll again, do whatever you want. Love it.

3. The words “tenacious” and “wreckage” and “enticing” and “lush”

4. Night walks.

5. The moon. Every time. Every night. Every day. The moon.

6. A car wash with rainbow lights.

7. The sounds of a vhs tape and a vcr doing their thing. Ideally about to play the cinematic masterpiece of 1999 and possibly best movie of all time The Mummy starring our lord and savior Brenden Fraser (a bonus Very Good Thing).

8. When roses begin to die. I like them best that way. The wilty petals, the texture, the beauty, the visible memory of time made tangible, it’s gorgeous.

9. Carmel apple lollipops - most specifically on cold rainy Thursdays in middle school and only in the fall, but they are still tasty these days.

10. The beginning of that Lizzo song “Cuz I Love You” right after she goes “I’m crying cuz I love you” and then it whams into your ribs with this incredible sound. I like those 10 seconds very much.