Today I am grateful that I have the option of completely avoiding xmas if I choose to. Also pretty grateful I may have found the best solution yet for my chronic pain, thanks to a podcast that covered the latest studies on my particular type of pain. Also grateful for this fancy adaptogen coffee I am drinking, with manuka honey.
Coffee has always been a good friend. When I was in high school I used to spend a lot of time with friends in my favorite coffee shop, just sitting on the couch, talking, playing games, coloring, making jokes, saying hi to friends and acquaintances as they arrived. It was before wifi, so people actually talked to each other, and there was live punk and rock bands on weekends. It was the cool coffee shop. And their mexican mochas were legit. To this day I haven't found a cafe that makes iced coffee with a texture as perfect as they do.
I still approximate that experience today, except in a different cafe, in the city, and I drink more wine there than caffeine. But the general idea is the same. Live music, friends and acquaintances saying hello with hugs. It's good. I'm sure I like it because it feels familiar. Imagine if I hadn't discovered that cafe! I'd have missed out on so many happy evenings.
I get so attached to places. I miss walking along the train tracks of my old little town with a cold coffee on hot days. Admiring the old buildings of the humble downtown I grew up with. But here too I have my favorite spots. My alleys with murals I drive through sometimes when I decide to take the "scenic route" home. My favorite tree swings overlooking the city. My hidden graffitied paradises along the sea. I'm so glad I grew up where I did, and actually, I'm pretty lucky to live where I live, where the entire world is at my fingertips. It's the only city in my country that I can stomach actually living in.
Honestly, I'm just grateful to be alive and breathing, and hot. :)
11:39 a.m. - 2019-12-21