Real Wealth, Right Now 25

1. Conversation with good friends;
2. Paris in the Spring;
3. Quality sleep, awaking refreshed;
4. Doing 'from your heart and soul' rather than from your 'to do' list;
5. Well worn 501s, battered All Stars and your last-remaining college sweat;
6. The last fifteen pages of your current moleskine notebook;
7. First time at a Michelangelo drawings exhibition: right up close;
8. Seattle in the rain;
9. Freshly laundered sheets on the bed;
10. Doppio espresso, St Mark's Square, Venice 0810, foggy;
11. Hanging out;
12. Five washed and ironed shirts;
13. Realising now at thirty you are older. But a heck of a lot wiser;
14. A note from her, signed xx;
15. New York, New York in the snow;
16. Sgt. Pepper on vinyl;
17. A day without technology;
18. Being understood;
19. Your window box or garden or estate;
20. Her smile;
21. Tidying-finally-the middle desk drawer and finding fifteen dollars;
22. His encouragement, always;
23. Breakfast at the market at 515 am with the fish traders after all-night dancing in Madrid;
24. Getting 20 out fo 20 in your Portuguese vocabulary quiz;
25. That battered copy of The Centaur by Updike.