1. The interest and willingness to learn a new mantra.  In yoga class Tuesday, the teacher used lokah samastah sukhini bhavantu, which touched me and I set about ceaslessly repeating.  In a different class yesterday, a different teacher opened with, councidentally or not.
2. A career where my sleep hours are largely determined by my own circadean rhythms.
3. A man collapsed on the corner of Wall and William, bleeding on the concrete.  It wasn’t me.
4. The smoothie man on William and Beaver.
5. The NYC Department of Sanitation, without which the city would be uninhabitable and all other municipal services would be useless.  Nothing against the fire department, but they aren’t much help against typhoid and cholera.

Many thanks,
Me