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#augustbreak2013 Day 29

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Your Fave Thing

favoritepenI wasn’t sure how to answer this one at first. My very favorite thing is of course Eric, we say to each other all the time “you are my favorite,” but he’s not exactly a “thing.” I was considering this prompt as I sat at my writing desk this morning, started to look around, see what might be my fave thing. I love many of the things on my shrines, but I already shared those the other day.

Then I looked down and saw one of my favorite things, my Pentel Clarius refillable pen, made in Japan. When I think about it, how I have two, one that stays home and one that travels with me, how it’s what I always use to write, it makes me tear up a little, makes me feel like a “real” writer.

#augustbreak2013 Day 28

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Smell

coffeesmellI used to hate the smell of coffee. I can remember washing my hair in the kitchen sink, my dad running the water in the sink next to mine until it got hot, then filling his coffee cup. As soon as the water hit the instant coffee at the bottom, a strong smell would drift over to me, and I would say something like “Gross, how can you stand to drink that?!”

Now I get it. I only drink half a cup, but there’s something about the ritual of that each morning, and the smell is a big part of the experience. All I have to do is smell hot coffee and I perk up, feel a little more awake. Luckily, I don’t have to put up with a kid telling me how gross it is. Sorry, Dad. I didn’t know then how wrong I was — about a lot of things.