[little joys]

1. William Fitzsimmon's music (and, okay, his Kanye cover)

2. voicemail

3. eating peeled grapefruits whole (thanks Molls)

4.  Real Simple and The New Yorker in my mailbox this morning - good day GOOD DAY

5.  later reading a word in one of these that I knew, having looked up the definition just weeks before. 

  platitude (n): a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound. Yes.

6. This quote: "In you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years."    (Walt Whitman)

harbor in Gloucester, Mass.