April

1: flying down the trails
2: (shamelessly) trying to fall asleep everywhere
3: when two birds' songs overlap and ring out in unison
4: hindsight validation (a few years late) of the confusion I went through in a sweet coming-of-age story
5: getting to know ODESZA
6: an afternoon up in the lighting lab with the improv comedy crew (and laughing until tears stream down my face)
7: indulging in a luscious square of dark chocolate on the walk home
8: El Laberinto del Fauno/Pan's Labyrinth
9: when the landscape is a living painting
10: stepping over the leaf-littered forest floor (to collect data)
11: dinner with fellow vegans (and a chat with the dining hall staff)
12: when the main character destroys almost every significant relationship they have in the span of a couple chapters
13: field trip to a local housing development
14: a cute kids' book my mom definitely would have gotten for us if it had come out a decade earlier
15: tooth worries, and "Swallowing Teeth"
16: singing along with "Silence" while standing in front of the open window
17: Google Earth teleportation
18: "Blind in Light" by Memtrix
19: spending a Thursday night writing in a café (Crossroads)
20: student presentations at spring symposium
21: fruit bowl picnic out by MarbleWorks on the creek bank
22: talking with community presenters at our Earth Day fair
23: when my spine nestles comfortably into the grooves of the bark as I sit against a tree
24: vaulting over things 'cause I feel like it
25: sore all over (hurts so good)
26: the unexpected ordeal of something exploding in the kitchen after it was left unattended, bringing three fire trucks y muchos bomberos to la Casa and catching the attention of all onlookers in the vicinity
27: (a) walk out in the rain
28: learning about futuristic, sustainable city developments in the United Arab Emirates
29: daffodils (drooping in the rain, fragrant in my room)
30: classmates looking to you for answers

March

1: when my voice makes it onto the podcast (start at about 108 minutes)
2: tuning in to my friend's morning radio show
3: the transformative power of raw nature on the soul (as read in Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanen)
4: chilling in the big lounge room while waiting for my laundry
5: "In a Time Lapse" remixes
6: little kids laughing and chasing each other around the library
7: snow as a sidenote
8: reciprocal chocolate gifting
9: the epiphanous impact of hearing a truth from another person, even when you've already learned and acknowledged it yourself
10: a self-published young author story in the library collection (a Beatles fanfic)
11: being invited over to a social house for Sunday Night Dinner
12: uncontrollable laughter as the others flip their shit over the appearances of the monster in Black Sand
13: oddly, being assigned to read a story with a semi-hopeful ending for my "stories recount tragedy" Spanish class
14: nighttime working (and bantering) in the studio with classmates
15: snow piled precariously (impossibly) onto tree branches
16: the awe and relief that my embarrassing things aren't just mine alone
17: cuando todo me hace flipar (when everything makes me flip out)
18: inspiration to revitalize an old short story idea
19: (t)romping across a field of ankle-deep snow
20: fruit phylogenies
21: the cutesicle, quirksta music of Podington Bear
22: friendly acquaintances breaking the pattern of mealtime solitude
23: when there's electronic music playing in the dining hall
24: a pre-spring break departure game of Monopoly on the floor of my friend's dorm room
25: an indigo-to-scarlet gradient from the sky to the horizon
26: Love, Simon
27: "my life according to song titles" challenge (as a family)
28: post-rock radio on Spotify
29: nachos and Netflix
30: cocoon of the mountain valley
31: the streaking tail of a shooting star falling in the clouded night sky