sentiment/sediment

Things for which I’m thankful:

Bass lines

Rim shots

Pith (rhetorically and relating to fruit)

Reestablishing communicative channels

Private handshakes (but not if based on membership in honorific clubs like fraternities, Elks Club, Rotary International, etc.)

Paintings, good representational ones

Paintings, made-by-children ones

Children, if borrowed not created

The words “anathema” and “acclaim” (also: “obtrude,” “abstemious,” “demonstrable,” etc.)

ESPN Classic

Cheese and mustard sandwiches with a Coke and potato chips

The Beatitudes

Rocking out

Lodgepole on windy days

Being able to repeat myself

Cross-court forehands

Drawing a 7-iron into a tucked pin, with a stiff wind in one’s face

Drag bunts

Alliteration in moderation

Rivers