Hope is Important
Natalia Antonova made a post yesterday on the back of this post at Feministe, and really caught my imagination. So as I'm up before Ezekiel on this pretty little Sunday morning, here is a list of things that have shown me beauty, given me hope and generally sparked happiness in me recently.
- The Wind Turbines spinning slowly besides the railway lines back from Birmingham and the way their numbers keep growing.
- Making friends on said selfsame train, at least for the duration of the ride, with someone completely unexpected.
- Lereia explaining to me carefully how anyone, anyone at all can Draw if they just come at it from the right angle.
- The campaign to protect AA/DLA getting 13,000 signups in a week
- Watching the Black and White cat who lives next door chasing Butterflies in our garden with gleeful abandon.
- The fact that it's 2009 and I'm listening to a new Dinosaur Jr Album.
- My friend Helen
- Watching Medium with Ezekiel and seeing a married couple on TV who are both functional and feel real. The Writers on that show are rather awesome.
- The National Health Service and the principle of medical care free at point of delivery for all.
- Discussing the discovery of penicillin with staff at the National Portrait Gallery and reaffirming once again how happy I am to be living in a world filled with simple marvels like Antibiotics.
I'll leave it at that for now and go get on. Though I suspect this is one I might revive anytime I feel in need of a boost.
Good to know that there are people who can make this kind of lists because I find myself being the one whos glass is half empty most of the time. Well there are good days too
I bet playing gw makes you happy too. Meeting friends there and escaping cruel world into fantasy world. That makes me happy. Maybe that's the reason I spend that much time there :/
Games are a glorious escape, there's no doubt about it. I've been a gamer for many years now and love having a good story to climb into.
The biggest fun bit about Guild Wars though is playing with you guys in Rose. You and Pher and Lindie and everyone make me smile a lot.