Blessings
--autobiography
--mental health
--home (Harriet, Sketch, roof, income) Comfort
--breakfast
--leisure
--sunshine (rare) Routine
--making scrapple
--preparing iced coffee
--evaluating student work
--blogs
Downers
--American mythology
--American history
--ignorance
--pop culture
--politics Uppers
--changing demographics
--Sketch's instincts
--favorite artists
--world outrage Lessons
--Nature wins
--"an old, old story" (Norman Brown)
--"my best friends are writers and are dead" (Q. Pizzini)
--"what the people expect, they get; what they get, they deserve; always" (C. Deemer)
--"the Way is to the crematorium" (C. Deemer) | 
