December

1: when your shirt inexplicably smells like cookies
2: Middlebury fall dance concert
3: nitpicky alphabetizing the shelves in the children's section
4: jackpot of finding a (valid one day only) video upload of Hamilton
5: short conversation with a stranger sparked from an inquiry about what I was writing in my journal
6: that flutter in your chest when you run into someone about whom you dreamed the night before
7: when John and Yoko are referenced in your psychology textbook
8: when two people who have only communicated through sign hear each other's voices for the first time
9: finishing up two of the semester's four classes
10: meeting with other sign language learners at a deaf coffee social
11: a short and sweet kids' novel as a reprieve from finals work
12: tea with your suitemate
13: bartering textbooks for Christmas gifts at the school bookstore
14: filming an ASL song interpretation with the club
15: channeling my loneliness and yearning into creative writing
16: banter and chat with my work family
17: the possibilities of shipping containers
18: chocolate and Netflix for dinner
19: being in-transit home
20: Patch's back-home bath and spa day
21: family viewing of It's a Wonderful Life at the theater
22: my brother's genuine interest in helping me build my tiny home
23: choral Christmas tunes on the radio
24: dismantling the rundown playhouse and salvaging some wood
25: Christmas Lego and gingerbread construction
26: a nature show about penguins
27: a YA novel about parallel universes
28: an afternoon of board games
29: the camaraderie between a friend and your family
30: pallet adventures in the broken-down car
31: low-key home-alone cider-and-Netflix New Year's Eve