A chocolate shake at M.'s cafe. Oh, the joy of having a cafe in front of our house! I MUST get down to creating that secret passage between our living room and the rear of the cafe.

A mellow afternoon with sunlight filtered by sheets of clouds and no rain--the kind of afternoon that makes all living beings--from humans to insects--happy because they are neither being scorched to a coma by the sun nor being drowned and forgotten beneath floodwaters.

The kind of day in which one's destiny is shaped by the will rather than the weather.