Monday: a light workload Tuesday: a day to relax Wednesday: salsa dancing, sharing space Thursday: scattered storms across the sky, like smudged pastels or dripping watercolors Friday: a moped ride at dusk through my sleepy town for ice cream Saturday: spending two and a half hours looking for this supermoon, and not seeing it, but consciously seeing the day pass into night Sunday: freshly squeezed orange juice

Day 1: chipirón ships lining the horizon – it’s low tide with calm waters Day 2: patches of sun,  like showers of gold Day 3: full-scale group art projects, made just for fun Day 4: morning conversations with las lechugas Day 5: merluza con salsa verde y patatas – how my cooking habits have changed Day 6:  The Flysch of Zumaia Day 7: Euskadi music and dance    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjxu63_korrontzi-oinkari-dantza-taldea-... - — -

Goodness for February 13 – 19, 2012 Monday: waking up and the first thought being   Hey, I’m not cold. Valentine’s Tuesday: reading Beyonce and Usher lyrics like poetry to my kids – I really thought they’d like it, but they only kind of did Wednesday: snug on the couch sharing popcorn and space – this place has made me more affectionate than I’ve ever been

Goodness for January 16-27th, 2012 Monday: language gifts from Xavi: magazines, movies, books and support Tuesday: printing my fingers in fresh paint Wednesday: soups, purées, coffees, teas and anything else meant to be drunk hot Thursday: riding my bike in roundabouts Friday: snow, yes! Snow by the sea! That for just a minute, covers the ground Saturday: my sister at 3am

Goodness for January 9-15, 2012 Monday: two-minute intervals of being in love: I can’t remember if he touched my arm or I his, but our hearts synched while he was giving me directions Tuesday: closing my to-do list and opening a magazine – not because I was done, but just because Wednesday: making sense of a colloquial phrase that never meant much until now

Goodness for December 19 – 25, 2011 Monday: full arc rainbows, all day long Tuesday: the American-English words I was asked to describe in class: hot (like “attractive”), fall (like “autumn”), crunch/crash (supposed to be crush, like “infatuated”), try out, freak out and BJ Wednesday:  sídra

Goodness from December 5-11, 2011 Monday: the fear invoked by the screaming baboons Tuesday: lac Léman and the Alps Wednesday: Giselle’s connectable charm Thursday: tartiflette Friday: Strasbourg’s Christmas decorations Saturday:  nice kids – but I mean, the nicest Sunday: el vino de la risa – grown, bottled and drunk exclusively in Pontarlier —

Goodness from November 14 – 20, 2011 Monday: random houseguests, breaking up routine Tuesday: when people tell me I’m improving, even if it’s just to be nice Wednesday: midweek poteando Thursday: the thoughtfulness of my 1batx (CE) class Friday: eating fresh, salty, scrumptious fish in a sociedad Saturday:  wafting air through open windows Sunday: talking like abuelas with Jone and Ido —

Goodness from October 17-23, 2011 Monday: a spoonful of powdered chocolate sinking into milk     for breakfast Tuesday: the sea Wednesday: “Sigh No More” by Mumford & Sons Thursday: She and I, sprawled on the floor, gripped by grammar, trying to make sense of our language to explain it to the other Friday: passionate debates Saturday: manly men with tiny, fluffy dogs Sunday: highly coordinated bicyclists holding umbrellas —

Goodness from September 26 – October 2, 2011 Monday: fall foliage – only nature could design such a brilliant period of dormancy Tuesday: big feelings provoked by big changes – I got scared, then fell in love with everything just in case life ceased in a plane crash Wednesday: listening to the final minutes of America Thursday: the Alaskan who escalated my love for travel and made me love home even more