All the small things

Here's my list of (little) things I love

Happy Monday.

Did you get the Blink 182 song in your head when you read that headline? No? But you do now? Mission Accomplished.

Julia Baird (pictured) has always been one of my favourite media personalities. She’s a writer and broadcaster and published many wonderful books.

She had a piece in The Sunday Age yesterday, talking about the American Poet Andrea Gibson.

Gibson died in July and before they did, a Substack newsletter appeared with a ‘list of loves’. As Baird says: “The ordinary things that make up a life. The things that help us go on, somehow, those ordinary delights.”

So Julia decided to write her own:

Here’s some of her list:

• The first sip of hot tea, also the second.

• The way the cat bops my dog on his large nose then curls up next to him, licking his fur.

• Hot water bottles, still warm at dawn.

• People who lack rhythm but dance like fiends.

• Closing my eyes and stretching my limbs out in the water while floating.

And now I’m giving you some of mine…

• The first coffee of the day. The smell of it, then the taste.

• Saturday morning newspapers. In print. Spread out across the breakfast table.

• A breakfast table, set the night before, ready for diners the next morning.

• The roar of the crowd after the National Anthem at an AFL game.

• Cooking a roast dinner.

• Drinking a glass of Pinot Noir while cooking a roast dinner.

• Eating a roast dinner.

• The first Haigh’s Peppermint Chocolate Frog in the packet hitting my tastebuds.

• Re-watching a Comfort movie as a family. (Comfort movie: one we’ve seen a dozen times before but still laugh at. I.e. Austin Powers).

• A family road trip. One we are starting today.

What are your small things?

Share a couple with me here…

See you next Monday Morning,

Wade