Thank you for including me in your list, Roy! I love your top 40 of things that you enjoy today. Breaking the norms without breaking people totally made me smile. A little of my loves:

1. I love my cheerleader, ultimate confidant, enjoyer of my insane thoughts, reader of my mind like Braille. He’s a lot of everything to me. My good people and the best people.
2. The way we breathe the same breath at times. Reflect the emotions to each other like we are glass and each other’s mirrors.
3. That taste of chai tea in the morning.
4. The beauty of the day after it rains.
5. How the light streams into my room and greets my body with its touch and invisible warmth.
6. The coolness of the air and how it awakens me.
7. How I love what I do. I live to do it.
8. The community here on Medium. My readers. The fellow writers. The talent, the thoughts, the words and poetry.
9. That I get to perform poetry. People enjoy my performing and connect with it.
10. My multiple jobs and the hustle I do. The way I can work as many hours and still seem to pep my step at the beginning of my work week.
11. That I feel confident, strong, capable and so much more.
12. That I have a great support system. That I allow them to support me.
13. I love this me that accepts myself. And truly if I accept myself I accept others so much readily. If I show myself kindness I’m able to produce so much more for the people who matter.
14. Those people who do matter. They are my matter.
15. Whiskey. How it always reminds me of him, the man I love. The heat of it down my throat. The way it warms my insides from the inside out. Whiskey is my drinking metaphor for how I feel when I’m with him.
16. I love that I get to meet people in this world and they are open to me. Not only that, but they enjoy me.
17. That I can write anonymously in this beautiful forum and spread my wings a bit. Be vulnerable in a way that isn’t normal for me.
18. The way my car hums to life each time I put my key in the ignition. That it’s still here after so many years.
19. The feel of my body underneath warm, blankets while the air threatens to freeze outside. Probably the swaddle effect there.
20. This new year, and how I can face it.
21. I love that I can do so much with so little.
22. I love that going against the norms is the only way to be. And when I do that it seems like everyone wants to follow me, or at least respect my unusual.
23. I love the kindness of others.

So, right now that’s what I got so far. An uneven number but not too bad. I also love that we have such a community here that we look to communicate and inspire each other.