What makes a good day?

Life is made up of hours. Some of that time we wish away. We watch clocks. We dread going to this or that. We have a headache. We get embarrassed and think, "Oh why did I do that?" Life.

I'm getting older, and I'm sort of becoming a better student of what makes a good day.

For me it has to be a certain amount of order, me doing right, and all my socks in order and I'm so proud; and add to that something coming from left field and knocking me off-balance (in a good way). Okay, I'm careful.

At this point, it involves a certain amount of trying to be healthy. Exercise is increasingly more important. Moving used to be something I took for granted - like leaping off the bed and landing on two feet and doing a flying turn and touching my hair to the floor (hey, I'm a rock star!) and then finger pointed to the ceiling becoming centered with the universe. Those days are over. Now it's "Can I touch my toes without sitting down?" But not all the time. I'm racing madly between 83 and 15 in a matter of seconds.

Also, for a good day to happen something must occur to make me feel smart. It can be out of the blue and totally not make sense, but it has to make ME feel like I'm smart, have learned a few things on these multiple trips around the sun and sort of give me that saunter that comes with confidence even if only for a few seconds.

Next I would expect and yearn for inspiration. Show me how to do it.

At some point I have to feel like I'm not going to hell and God loves me in spite of everything. Isn't that what they tell us is true? Well, I need to feel this right after I feel like I am worthless.

Food plays a large part in a good day. I'm learning more and more that food is a ritual to be played out as well and elegantly as possible but in ever-decreasing portions. Eat well and small.

I need to read something great! EVERY DAY. We have countless information at our fingertips and I want a medium-sized, well-written, brilliant, funny, scary thing to read EVERY DAY. Something that will make me lay it down and stare into space with a cool look on my face and just think, then pick it up and read it again.

Good sex or the hint of good sex in the (near or distant) future.

Music. Music. Music. Most days it's Jimmy Martin. His rhythm, soul, and voice are IT for me, but today I'm mesmerized by Grace Potter. This young woman is amazing. Nora Jones on steroids.

Friendship. It can be lunch with a co-worker who has a problem to talk out or a brush in the barn with my new cool feral pig who knows she has happened on a really good thing or my duck running up to the road to greet me.

A good movie to watch. The latest one for me was Match Point. Before that was Out of the Past with Robert Mitchum. I love Robert Mitchum. He acts effortlessly.

I also like to know about all the cool people who have lived and died before me. Think of the possibilies. I hope when we die we get to meet them all. I'll bet there's a Civil War soldier I could have a crush on. Or a Hun or something.

Someone to love. Someone to worry about. Someone who can make me just sit and not be bored. Someone to make me feel okay even when the news isn't so good. A partner.

Some days all these things come together. I hope y'all have a good day. I wish you adventure, love, enlightenment, a bit of a scare, and a glass of wine to watch the sun set.

Peace and maybe a little uneasiness to keep the blood flowing.

This is asking for really a lot, isn't it? It's also corny, and I will be editing it as my needs change.