1. Being comfortably able to run the dishwasher and bake bread in the ac-free house – the annual one-week Seattle heat wave has ended.
2. Feeling back to myself after weeks of labyrinthitis – within a day of starting the first of many acupuncture sessions.
3. Living in a mostly civil democracy where war and the collateral damages are not a daily reality. Thoughts go out to the families of those who were on the Malaysian airliner today.  

Thank you to my friend Beth Kuchta James for this challenge!