Jalapeno Pretzels and the Adulation of Small Things

jalapeño pretzels & the adulation of small things munching jalapeño pretzels, savoring a cup of coffee, taking a moment to enjoy the way a cardigan you’ve had for years feels when you throw it on for the 255 thousandth time--- these things, these small (and what may seem to others as being irrelevant details of life) but more than precious tidbits of life are what keep us unique and what keep us grounded to a physical reality which makes sense to us personally--- as conglomerations of habits & happenings, things & theatrics, each one of this species in the present anthropocene walks this planet with the experiences that they have had tattooed across their face & as much as you moisturize, rubbing away those crow’s feet your life’s work is embedded in the conversations you have and the admiration & appreciation of the little things create a comfortable warmth that you don’t have to defend & a library of wonder that isn’t obligated or forced upon us by anything but our own desire to enjoy a life of freedom or as close to this as we can get, constantly, interminably, insisting on more of it.