1. Breathing deeply

2. A friend that is willing to help me when I ask, no stings attached

3. Making decent if not altogether successful attempts at not taking some things personally; I’m awfully fragile right now, and knowing that, I can make an effort to account for this feeling in my interactions

4. Hearing Sabine spell her own name with care and an enormous sense of pride. Rote memorization? Probably. But still love that her own name is the first word she is able to visually recognize and spell. Speaks of a sense of self I hope she always possesses.

5. Being asked how I am by someone who really wants to know

Go on, be grateful.