The things that wake my soul:

• Beauty – particularly the movement inherent in asymmetrical beauty
• Deep honesty toward myself – which opens the door to connection
• Improbable hope lived out with grace
• Kindness – especially unbidden and (almost) unseen
• Friendship’s glance – and its extended cousin, a loving gaze
• Laughter – the kind that draws you in
• Whispers beneath the stars

And that inexplicable, unpredictable touch of the universe, when it says, ‘YES!’

[photo by Attila Siha per cc 2.0]