Things That Are Good

- Arctic Monkeys
- Cleaning off your desk, finally
- Finding a reason and time to write
- Chinese New Year
- Freshly swept floors
- Starting over
- Keeping up your own traditions, however untraditional they may be
- Filing a tax return, free of charge [where applicable]
- Paying off a big chunk of your credit card debt all at once
- Hearing from old friends
- Spending time with your family, even if the circumstances are distressing
- The del.icio.us extension for Firefox
- New York cabbies, waiters and bouncers who blog
- Listening to Arctic Monkeys
- Musical siblings

- Podcasts about Meditation and Buddhism
- Waking up to someone
- Going to bed after a long day when you've finished a lot of things you've been leaving half-done for entirely too long

Comments

[Max]

He's back! Yay!

[kate]

Holy Cow! Ben has returned!!! Yay!

[Michael Holtmann]

My list of things that are good:

-Ben's blog
-Monkeys from tropical climes
-Cragganmore, neat
-"Your Face Tomorrow" by Javier Marias
-Antoine Moundanda the moment he begins singing
-AvroKO
-the work of Jasper Ray Johnson and Seydou Keita
-the Smithsonian
-the view of the Washington Monument from my window
-Abigail Paige Norris
-Tai Shan, even if he is growing up quickly
-taking stock and formulating plans
-inspiration, every time it comes

[Misty Reagin]

I love the waiter and cabbie blogs! They are hilarious. You have such great links on here! Keep 'em coming!