thankful

for sunlight... always for sunlight.  i don't even want to think about what life would be like without it!
for a candle at amy's that smells like fall and like a home.
for walking with katie in fresh morning.
for tessa's smiles.
for the way amy cares for people.  the way she is attentive to making them know they are loved.
for getting to know rae in class.  her lovingness is reviving!
for the kind smiles from the people in my english 310 class during my poem critique... i was so nervous!
for nick, erika, and casie eating my raisins in class.  i'm friends with a buncha champs.
for professor jewett and professor klatt's relationship.  it's so funny how they always tease each other during their classes and the other one isn't even there!
for coral explaining what it means to be saved to international students at beaver creek.
for zach and aaron's kind intentionality with me.
for drinking apple cider in a room filled with taxedermied animals and people i really, really love. (:
for katie silcock.
for thinking about being God's child.
for afton asking isaac where he got the chipotle sauce in the caf... while driving in the car next to him with the window down... and him yelling back, "i can't believe we're having this conversation!"
for isaac and nate cooley's faces eating pizza while driving
for holland's "do not!" (:
for tessa giving me socks and then running away
for holland texting me she misses me when i just leave the room.
for genuine laughter from the whole class during class
for a surprise picnic by devyn and adam in the park.. with flowers in a vase and homemade tea & apple crisp!
for sam & becca looking for me during nathan and marissa's wedding reception
for coral always sharing things with me- and at sleepovers while we're falling asleep.
for all of the joy-filled towers girls to dance with
for aft... her sweetness.
for polka-ing with cole
for learning and seeing a greater depth of who coral is.
for sunshine and golden september fields.