December

1: little food rewards to motivate me to write my paper
2: "Castaway" by the dream duo Grant + Jessi Mason
3: presentation night & classmates' creative final project ideas and media of expression
4: other hidden gems from Gregory Alan Isakov's Evening Machines
5: snow like gently falling stars
6: taking a drink to a study carrel and settling in to write
7: new and previously-unheard Balmorhea
8: a thought-provoking play about the decision to (or not to) have children
9: standing upon, and being held up by, an ice shelf
10: a guy befriending a butterfly
11: Mitus + Tikey (a.k.a. the freakin' cutest couple in Season 2 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
12: more Cat Stevens
13: surprise hug from a friend
14: grabbing lunch with my friend before she leaves for break
15: my hair today (tiny curls)
16: when the dining hall offers a really good soup even though they've reached the dregs of their supply
17: an entire day and thirty pages' worth of journaling
18: learning (together) about the odd, sci-fi/fantasy world-building behind Cat's album Numbers
19: after many failed attempts, successfully hammering apart and dismantling a pallet
20: an outing day with the brother
21: The Breadwinner
22: Nob Hill meetup
23: bikesplorations out in the Beyond
24: Little & Lion
25: iota, the great big game in the teeny-weeny tin
26: (almost) all the family contributing to a Kwanzaa music mix
27: crunching along the snowy streets of Santa Fe
28: tumbling into the mud and tangling with bushes while sledding
29: chatting while walking around and browsing the record store
30: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
31: hella Helven writing inspiration