Presented below in no particular order are some entities, confluxes, and concepts I think are cool. Sometimes these emerge as shameless recommendations in long form, but the bullets are still nice reminders of sparkles of life.
- Wind, present but not too strong
- Walking over bridges, even better when there's water under them
- Peanut butter warmed by the toast it's on
- Cool, gray light reflected off the still surface of a hot cup of coffee
- Birdsong
- Getting to pet a nice animal
- When a plan actually works out
- Fretless bass
- A really good beat
- BBQ potato chips
- Chocolate milk
- Lemonade
- Bok choy
- Flow state as it naturally occurs, not fun to force it
- Noodling on guitar
- Kristin Hersh
- Fiona Apple
- When a plant is actually growing
- The sound of a CD ejecting
- The sound of a soft click then a Game Boy starting up
- Pad thai
- Veggie Reuben sandwiches
- Having walked just a little bit too far
- Mallard couples
- Goslings