By SUSAN DROMEY HEETER, Joyful Musings
Happy end o’ March and April, Joyful Musers. And as my 62nd year is arriving soon, I’m going to share with you 62 things that I joyfully muse upon in this life:
- Yellow Peeps of Easter
- Hearing Joni Mitchell in Market Basket
- Prom dresses
- Beach reading
- Garry Rayno’s reporting
- A great blow out
- Barry’s Tea
- Milk Duds
- Sewing Machines
- Asking about Celebrity Sightings
- White sneakers
- A clean bill of health
- Tan pants
- Dressing like Johnny Quest
- The San Francisco Gay Men’s Choir
- Wisdom of knowing the difference
- Cake
- A great cry
- You MADE my day!
- Finding a bathroom at just the right time
- Irish Dance
- Mexican Food Trucks
- Having too much stuff and LOVING it
- Clean Sheets
- Bernie Sanders
- Gel nail polish
- Ice Skating on the Lamprey River
- Voting
- Handwritten notes
- Health
- No plans
- Journaling every morning
- Pablo Alborán
- Baby girls
- Wedding anniversaries
- It’s so good to see you!
- Bennie the dog
- Jumping on bubble wrap
- Seeing a Franciscan monk in San Francisco
- Swimming laps
- Drugstore lipstick
- Walking meditation
- Candy corn
- You look GREAT!
- Why not?
- Said who?
- Let’s go!
- Blueberry Muffins
- Vosotros as the relative you’ve heard of but don’t really know
- Silent Night
- Hills of green
- You made that?
- Sunglasses
- Fresh air
- A great bag
- Steve Martin
- Peanut Butter and Fluff
- Free!
- CVS jewelry
- A great hubby
- Cousins, brothers, sisters, in laws
- Love
And so much more. May you muse on those joys of your own life. Count your joys and your joys will count on you – into infinity and beyond!
Susan Dromey Heeter is a writer from Dover who recently let her hair go au natural white. Writing has been her passion since her English majoring days at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Dromey Heeter has lived in The Netherlands, Alaska and currently basks in all things New England, including the frigid winters. An avid swimmer, Dromey Heeter’s great passion is to bring back body surfing as most children have no idea how to ride waves without ridiculous boogie boards.