LifeIsGood101

1. Her text.
2. The rain.
3. Fresh coffee: ground and brewed perfectly by you.
4. At last, a lie-in.
5. The sales plan is working.
6. $50 to your favourite charity.
7. Lego on the floor with your son.
8. At the park with your daughter.
9. The worst of films: but what the heck you held hands throughout it….
10. Kick-boxing, hot shower, clean jeans, old sweatshirt.
11. New author discovered: back-list of 14 novels. Yep, 14 second-hand from Amazon.
12. Discovering her star-sign.
13. An agent shows an iota of interest in your manuscript.
14. Clear drive into work on the freeway.
15. Repair bill on the car half of what you thought it would be…
16. A bargain-break in Paris. It rains…and it’s OK because the bed is comfortable and the view is across The Seine. Oh, and her lingerie…
17. Grand Central.
18. Her smile.
19. So your charcoal-on-paper sketching efforts are not at all bad!
20. The smell of his jumper, which he left in your VW.
21. A gig. Hard-working band, live.
22. A plumber who does what they saying they are going to do. No mess, fixed. Itemised bill.
23. You hadn’t seen him for 23 years and the conversation was as if you had seen him yesterday. And you were astonished to discover he….
24. 23734 words on your novel. Yep, word-count is on. But you are now beating it. You drive it rather than the other way around.
25. You resigned. Yep, really.
26. F*ck it: there’s stuff to do and you’re the man.
27. Foot prints on the beach as dawn arrives.
28. Discover the perfect taste of diced ginger in hot water.
29. Didn’t used to like Thai food but love it now.
30. You’re getting better: really you are. More energy
31. Baking bread.
32. Making soup.
33. Cooking ragu.
34. Grating parmesan.
35. Sorting jars.
36. Taking photos of bikes around Oxford city.
37. The den blitzed
38. Her letter
39. The garage sorted. The outlines on the wall for tools look like badly distorted homicide victims. But your neighbour in impressed.
40. The evening class was cool; discovered how to use the features on your digital camera.
41. Take photos of bikes all around Oxford, take II.
42. Portraits.
43. Landscapes.
44. At the zoo with Zoë.
45. At the park with Patrick.
46. In the mountains with Monty.
47. Swimming with Samantha.
48. San Francisco: such a bargain flight with Virgin Airways.
49. First tram in the morning with the locals. Does that driver get banana bread given to him every morning?
50. Lying on your back: thinking, dreaming.
51. Wham: a toddler arrives and leaps on you.
52. A moment in time. Connection.
53. Life is Good.
54. It gets better
55. Challenges?
56. Sure: gets me to focus.
57. Up in the morning.
58. Lean and mean.
59. Fighting Fit
60. Bzz: a text.
61. She’s OK. More than OK; she's gorgeous.
62. 347 more words and no editing needed.
63. Bread’s ready.
64. Hot with blackberry jam picked last Autumn.
65. Ridiculously good.
66. The right kind of Blackberry.
67. Picked, cooked and jarred.
68. Not the one that jars with your humanity.
69. Since you made those decisions.
70. Life’s been so good.
71. The career one. Out on your own…
72. The relationship one. He’s the one…
73. The money one. Who needs it?
74. The wellness one. Profound wellness…
75. The help others one. At the local school…
76. And that book was an inspiration.
77. Texted her back.
78. 20 Euros note in his back pocket: washed and dried and crinkled. But riches.
79. Charlie: we’re off for ice-cream!
80. Sure anything so long as we can do it with 20 Euros.
81. Yeah: the castle is cool.
82. You need a hat.
83. I know it’s summer, but this is England.
84. Let’s run.
85. Life is Good
86. What about?
87. What If?
88. Kipling’s eternal w questions…
89. Einstein’s boredom and then, then, then….
90. Energy=mass times speed of light squared. Such simplicity at the far side of such complexity!
91. They want you to spend.
92. But you don’t have to.
93. You really don’t have to do much of what they seduce you into thinking…..you are actually surprisingly free.
94. Happiness is not a thing.
95. It’s a decision.
96. A journey.
97. A friendship.
98. A perspective
99.  Life is good
100. Really good
101. It starts today.