The End of the Blog of Delights

I started this blog a year ago and sort of kept it up. I feel accomplished that I didn’t abandon it, especially on days I was languishing. After all, even Ross Gay didn’t list a delight every day in The Book of Delights.

I think the blog has helped me become more aware of the delights in my life and I won’t abandon looking for them and even writing about them sometimes — most likely on Clutch Cargo Lips.

Delights today included:

• An email from a book group member whose turn it is to host next month. She chose Aimee Nezhukumatathil‘s World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments, a book I mentioned early on in this blog and said I thought I’d read it after attending a Zoom “conversation” between Gay and Nezhukumatathil. In a way, my reading will have come full-circle.
• Walking downstairs after waking up and seeing that Dean had put Happy Birthday by the Beatles on loop on the kitchen Echo device.
• A delightful email from my son’s delightful future mother-in-law (also my future daughter-in-law’s mother).
• Texts and messages from friends
• Discovering that contrary to what I was recently told, my grandparent’s cabin in Chetek is still standing.
• A visit to downtown Bethesda that, while maybe not delightful was not dreadful
• Dean’s gift to me: a Notorious RBG bobblehead
• A delightful visit with Andrew and Alex
• Discovering that turning 65 is not as bad as it seems