For baby laughs at 7 AM (for no seeable reason, but she's chuckling just the same)For partners who are quitting smoking, again, like the hero that he is.
For sunshine flooding through windows that wink out at the sea, like a flirting sailor.
For wooden floorboards under my reused battered rocking chair.
For tea with honey
For toasty muffins
For feet up on the stool you re-upolstered
For birds digging worms for their nest in the front garden
For wounds that heal
For empty spaces filled
Do you ever wake up in the morning and think to yourself, 'This could be it. This is quite possibly the happiest moment of my life....' I did that this morning. It was one of those Perfect Moments which you just have to lay name to, even though you know, even as you're laying name to it, it's passing, and trying to cling to it is not only useless, it's counter-productive, because then you're not enjoying it.But suffice it to say, I am so proud of my partner, I am so pleased with our new home, I love the baby's 4-month smile-in-the-morningness, and there are lots of lovely projects to be worked on. It's just a Yes Day, and that's enough. I don't need us to have any more money, or to have any more aspirations, or to worry about any of the niggly piggly little details... Life is Good at Present. (Which is an ephemeral and passing state, but all the more precious for it.) So say the name, I believe.
