Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The happiness list

* Watching my three year old smile. It's the most radiant, from the heart smile to adorn a face.

*Walking down the aisles in a bookstore, preferably the kind that sells used old books with a flutter in the heart getting completely lost in the musty smell, sitting down at odd corners and taking home what will become a prized possession.

*A good cappuccino paired with some delicious chocolate cake in a sea of red raspberry syrup and oh a mint leaf to complete it.

*Reading a real newspaper on sunday morning with brunch, warm sunlight and random birds whose name I do not know for company

*Riding a horse with the wind on my face

*The earthy smell of monsoon

* Walking into a room, seeing my baby girl's face light up on seeing me. Motherhood seems sweeter the second time around.

*My mother's voice and my grandmother's ruby red bangles

*Prose that sounds like poetry

*Watching my husband play with my kids. There is nothing more sexier than watching a grown man be a child with my children

*The smell of mint, rosemary and sandalwood. Would that be too intoxicating?

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