1. For good books
2. For friends that don't require conversation, but just their being next to you makes life better
3. For a having a sister that I can have a whole conversation with via eye contact.
4. For kids that make me laugh
5. For a 17-year-old boy that is brave enough to take swimming lessons, and even swim in the deep end for the first time ever
6. For mangoes
7. For parents who not only love each other, but who are also really like each other
8. For breezy summer evenings with perfect sunsets :)
"Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world."
-Ada Louise Huxtable-
