clarity.

while reading another web site yesterday, i clicked on a link and ended up at c jane enjoy it, a blog i know many of you know and love. in one specific post, jane recounted her 2008 and said something that struck me--and the writer i was reading--as incredibly profound:

"i realized the secret to happiness is to continually fall in love.

to give the soul reasons for butterflies."

how wonderful a sentiment is that? so i started thinking about the things i'm in love with right now and came up with a random, but happy (to me), list:

grande skinny vanilla lattes from starbucks (iced, please). the typewriter in the photo above--my aunt's by way of my grandfather, and now mine--a christmas present. sarasota (it's true). my incredible friends. pea dumplings with lots of garlic, cucumber-yogurt-mint salad and homemade tabouli (my friend m. and i had a cooking day on saturday, and that's what we made). semicolons. watercolory sunsets over the bay. oscar (of course). fancy soap. and this glorious, scary, all-encompassing life i call my very own.

tell me, my dears: what are you in love with right now? xo!

{ photo above taken by me for this blog }