Thanks be to God for

the odes of Horace, augmented sixth chords, dandelions, palatalization of velar stops before front vowels, the mountains at sunrise, climbing trees, flying kites, Renaissance polyphony, conspiracy theories, the color blue, socks, Carolingan minuscule, the melancholic temperament, hyperbole, plagal cadences, walking home to Mission in the afternoons, old memories, railroad tracks, prepositions, and the birds on my walk to church this morning-