August

1: inner-city Seattle
2: barefoot walks in the surf
3: revisiting the same used bookstore you found six years ago
4: seeing glass-blowing in action
5: coming back from a big city to return to your ghost-town state
6: helping a neighbor's dog get back home
7: funny & friendly bankers
8: a stumbling toddler jumping into the foam pit after his mom and brother
9: a dog getting so excited to play fetch they chase the ball even if you only kicked it a few inches
10: friendly baristas at Starbucks
11: random people making rock & roll hand signals to you from another car
12: making a Jeep friend
13: videos of dogs playing on YouTube
14: "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound
15: watching documentaries and docu-dramas in class
16: a black widow eating a baby lizard
17: Ansel Elgort in The Fault in Our Stars
18: nobody seeing you epically trip
19: virtual evolution simulators
20: turning my HP into a TeaBook Pavilion
21: learning to play "Colorblind" on piano
22: el cortometraje "Cuerdas"
23: getting a dog prepped for the World Cup
24: Ludovico Einaudi's album Divenire
25: starting a part-dystopian, part-autobiographical story
26: when the new kid welcomes YOU in
27: that one kid in the class who uses Ubuntu
28: zucchini latkes
29: IQ and common sense tests on YouTube
30: feeding a pig carrots
31: Keira Knightley in Begin Again

July

1: writing on the whiteboard in the doctor's office
2: drawing interpersonal drama webs for soap operas
3: when books & movies make you shudder
4: putting smoke bombs in a bucket of water
5: winning Minecraft Hunger Games
6: dogs getting adopted
7: Dogs 101 clips on YouTube
8: a solid hour of heavy drizzling
9: the Extant premiere
10: Nintendogs
11: stride-and-jump practice
12: having the park to myself for five minutes
13: your parents letting you pick out two things exclusively for yourself when you're at Costco
14: making intense future-life spreadsheets
15: doing a somersault/front flip off the diving board
16: finding your way back home in survival (Minecraft)
17: helping out "the crew"
18: trying out toys at ToysRUs
19: when a dog successfully performs stay
20: the golden-honey triplets (Ivy, Toby, & Diego)
21: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
22: day trips and bike rides
23: making vacation plans
24: organizing papers in folders and file cabinets
25: Ben's tearful confession on The Young and the Restless
26: taming and naming wolf packs in Minecraft
27: when a dog gets so sleepy they start swaying and falling over on you
28: checklists for packing
29: writing directions to all your desired destinations within a city
30: balcony & window views of the water
31: navigating backward through an unfamiliar city