the nicest things

• Listening to the sparrows sing in the mornings.
• Seeing the goose couple that lives near the swimming pool with their six goslings.
• The smell of mulch. Yeah, it's chicken manure but it means they'll be flowers in a few days.
• The sight of Fr. praying before Mass.
• The way the church looks when there's no light but the candles.
• The smell of rain.
• The smell of the river.
• Standing up to my knees in the ice cold ocean.
• Rocky's Pope colonge
• barbeque at Dixie Bones in Prince William County
• antique statues of Our Lady
• catching sight of red finches
• seeing an osprey catch a fish
• the flight of the turkey vulture, they are ugly up close and on the ground but in the air there's nothing that can touch them.
• the smooth, thick anticipatory silence in St. Rita's before Mass.