For the month of November I’m participating in a daily gratitude challenge posted by the journaling app that I use, Day One, and here’s today’s prompt:

What is a simple delight that I have been enjoying lately?

Apologies, I’ve already written about this a couple times in previous posts, but it’s been fun working through my academic portfolio on my website. It’s like when one tries to organize photos from a trip taken a long time ago. It can stir up a lot of memories and emotions revisiting all of that work that I’ve done over the decades. There were several pieces I’d forgotten about and some where I clearly struggled with the assignment. Most of the papers are saved as PDFs with the professor’s handwritten comments and some pretty interesting document formatting on my part. I converted some papers to HTML and could clearly see that I didn’t always use standard margins, probably in an obvious effort to inflate the page count of the paper. In one class the professor commented over the course of several papers, “more next time?” Ugh. It’s embarrassing and funny… and the handwriting, how did I ever get away with that?! Well, we all started somewhere, and I happen to have ample evidence of how far (or not) I’ve come with my writing efforts. Just for the fun of it, I’ve also included a class note where I sketched out a map of Asia Minor. Enjoy(?)