Thursday, October 25, 2007

pleasantly surprised

We joke in my family that my dad could watch the same movie over and over again and enjoy it the same every time because he never remembers what happened.

I think I inherited something of that from him, although in my case it doesn't apply to movies so much.

This morning I was enjoying my gray hooded sweatshirt, pulling the cuffs down over cold hands (the sun and the wind haven't kicked up yet), when I was pleasantly surprised to discover thumb openings in said cuffs. I think that this happens every time I wear it. Like, "wow! thumb holes! this is great!"

It occurs to me that this could be a beautiful thing for the rest of life -- always being pleasantly surprised by pleasant things.

Or it could be a sign of early-onset dementia . . .

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