excited feelings about:

• the onset of fall and the emergent hues


• the giant Dragon Tree and the tiny Spider Plant that will be new additions to the single sill of my little apartment


• the idea of dolphins, diving birds and medium fish, and their frenzied cooperative feeding


• meeting a brand new human being in approximately four weeks


• hammerhead sharks


• the prospect of being paid in art supplies


• the oncoming education in human synergistics


• a new Bill Bryson book


• developing eleven rolls of film, spanning many moons


• seeing Wilco on Sunday in the evening


• replacing the boggle battery and upping the competitive ante in our vocabulary battling


• familiarizing myself with all of the acceptable Q and Z words in Scrabble


• squash and beets and baking bread


• saving dollars and going places


• learning more and more about the universe through watching dear Moozimah mature into a fine young lady cat