APPRECIATION #100: GETTING TO 100

I did it! I wrote 100 APPRECIATIONS.

HERE ARE 100 THINGS THAT I APPRECIATE:

1. Appreciating Things
2. Laughter
3. Good Sentences
4. On Deck Circles
5. Scent Memories
6. Stories or Examples Used to Illustrate a Point (?’s)
7. Stories or Examples Used to Illustrate a Point (Answers)
8. First Paragraph of The Last American Man
9. First Paragraph of Moby Dick
10. Poetry
11. Those First Moments of Inspiration
12. Feeling Like Quitting, But Not Quitting
13. Reading
14. Two Specific Paragraphs in a Discarded Library Book
15. Hurdy Gurdy Concerts, Mucky Sand For Sale, and Savoring Specifics
16. Kaizen NOT Karoshi
17. Melvilles’s “Bartleby the Scrivener”
18. Finding the Right Influence at the Right Time
19. A Decade of Marriage
20. Launching “Expendable Efforts”
21. Conversation
22. Strange Dreams About School
23. My Son’s Storytelling Impulse
24. New Words, New Ideas, New Punctuation
25. Failure, Rejection, Misfires
26. Truth Tellers
27. Trustworthy Voices, Reasoned Opinion, Honest Commentary
28. “The Braindead Megaphone” by George Saunders
29. Movies
30. Van Gogh on the Blank Canvas
31. Jogging, Blogging
32. Traveling Through the Dark with William Stafford
33. Sporks
34. Finding Caterpillars in the Forest & “The Thing About Adventures”
35. Teenage Commentary
36. Moments Like Those Sitcom Pregnancy Scares Where You Realize How You Really Feel About Something
37. Pine Cones
38. “A Day In The Life” by the Beatles
39. Windows When Certain Jokes Work
40. ; (the Mark, the Tattoo)
41. Picking Up a Book Off Your Shelf That You Have Never Read (But Had For Years) And Reading It In One Sitting
42. Breton Fisherman’s Prayer
43. Alternatives to Reading (Input)
44. Dropping A Mug In a River In the Morning And Finding It Downstream In the Afternoon
45. Annotating Articles
46. Encounters With Wild Animals
47. Primary Sources
48. Siblings
49. Art as Rebalancing
50. APPRECIATE: A MANIFESTO
51. Stretch & Laugh
52. A Shot In The Dark
53. Flags
54. Taking A Break
55. Picking Up Where You Left Off
56. Interviews
57. Voting
58. Mid-May In A High School
59. Walter Mitty
60. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
61. Having The Lists
62. Emotional Granularity
63. A Sand County Almanac
64. Chapter 3 of Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl
65. Criticism & “The Willed Decision To Look”
66. Holy Moments of Joy
67. A Constantly Updated List Of Things To Appreciate
68. On Poems & Pull-Ups
69. First Day Of School
70. Songs About Being Your Own Grandpa
71. Learning New Things About Students
72. Talking To Strangers
73. Bruce Springsteen & Neil Young Sing “Whip My Hair”
74. Starting Sentences With The Word And
75. Unexpected Advantages Of Coping With A Little Mess
76. Growth Mindset
77. Abandoning Books
78. Communication Heroes & Quick Lists
79. Collective Nouns
80. Improversation, etc.
81. The Promise Of Puzzlement Or Fascination Pregnant In Some Sentences
82. Things Named Doug
83. How To Ruin Everything & Making Connections With Texts
84. How To Ruin Everything (Pt.2)
85. The 5 Lists In Action
86. Ass, Badass, Badassery
87. Found Poetry
88.  Gun Nation Documentary
89. Speaking Of Collective Nouns
90. When You Get The Title First
91.  Turning Into My Grandmother
92.   Better Than Ezra
93.  Act 14 of Episode 221 of This American Life
94.  A Drawer In My Cabinet of Curiosities
95.  Being Surrounded By A Language I Don’t Understand
96.  Limericks Generally And The OEDILF Specifically
97.  Helium Balloons
98.  Wad Words (Connotation, Synonym, Antonym, Schadenfreude, Zeitgeist, Paradox)
99.  Not Saving It For Later
100. Getting to 100