My Glimmer List

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I’ve already talked on here about how I have had a daily practice of writing down glimmer moments or small experiences of beauty on a daily basis. I’ve been doing this now for a couple of years. But recently I thought it might be cathartic to write down a general list of the glimmers that especially make me feel warm and fuzzy.

I know when I need to feel hope or comfort sometimes, I’ll actually search on google for other people’s glimmer lists. So maybe you might enjoy reading mine too.

  • Train whistle in the distance

  • A new neat rock or leaf

  • Shimmering lights on the wall or floor

  • Shimmering light of water in the woods

  • Candles flickering (wood wicks especially)

  • Ella purring or trilling

  • My therapy blanket between my fingers

  • Tom hugs

  • My stuffed rabbit’s long soft ears

  • Putting my head under the water in the bath

  • Sitting in front of a space heater and listening to the hum

  • The first green shoots of spring (snowdrops)

  • The smell of Hawthorne flowers

  • Christmas lights

  • Rows of holiday decorations in the shops

  • The smell of an old book

  • The smell of a new book

  • Flipping through an old book to find a gorgeous illustration

  • Going to an antique store

  • Looking at pretty pictures

  • Making something

  • Writing tingle words or descriptions

  • Drawing something

  • Straightening the house to look nice

  • Wrapping my hands around a warm delicious mug of tea

  • Really good creamy hot cocoa

  • Warm soup

  • Having my hair played with

  • A cinnamon-forward simmer pot

  • Cinnamon in general

  • A gorgeous tree

  • Golden hour

  • Foggy mornings

  • Moving water (waterfall, ocean, stream, lake with waves)

  • Foxgloves

  • Seeing a wild animal in the woods

  • Finding a mushroom

  • Butterflies on my plants

  • Crow calls

  • Rabbits

  • Ice cream

  • Fiddleheads

  • Gentle rain

  • Hag stones

  • Feeling magical

  • Noticing a message from nature

  • Mom’s rolls

  • Mom’s mashed potatoes

  • Mom’s voice

  • Wendy Froud’s guided meditations

  • Watching someone cook in an aesthetic calm video

  • Getting lost in the story of an artwork’s little details and narrative

  • Watching someone make something beautiful

  • Getting to see something beautiful in secret that hasn’t been shared yet

  • Being complimented creatively by a stranger

  • Moss

  • The color green

  • A really magical outfit

  • Being around people who want to talk deep

  • Queer joy

  • Making weird noises with trusted weirdos

  • Puppets

  • Seeing my faemily

  • Taking to Faerie

  • Movies with open ended endings

  • Musky smells

  • Resinous smells

  • Glowing amber

  • Clapper bridges

  • A good hair day

  • Collecting nature bits

  • Seeing nature in unexpected places and saying hello

  • Noise deprivation (headphones, earplugs, pillow around head)

  • Bare feet

  • Wild snails

  • Deer sightings

  • A really good song played in my car where I feel safe to shout along

  • My troll tail

  • Wearing antlers and horns

  • That satisfied tiredness of resting after swimming

  • An outdoor fire

  • Eating outside

  • Fireflies

  • Giving a really good gift

  • Getting a super thoughtful gift

  • ANYTHING Froud

  • Feeling seen by someone I admire

  • Library smell

  • Seeing a wild rabbit (or hare! That happened once)

  • A really good hair day

  • Incense drifting in magical curlicues and filling the house with resinous aroma

  • A bouquet of messy wildflowers

  • Portals nestled in tree roots

  • Golden hour

  • The smell of moist mossy forest earth

  • Finding hidden treasure at a garage sale, thrift or antique store

  • The clearing, cleansing sound of a brass bell

  • The sound of wind chimes, especially the big resonant ones

  • Pulling my sweater down over my hands

  • Tucking my chin in the neck of a soft sweater turtleneck

  • Finding things in nature that look like they belong to faeries - tulip tree swords, an acorn cap shapes like a fedora

  • Glitter freckles

  • Fhairy strands, especially if woven by a dear friend or Dancing Hands

  • Skirts swishing around my ankles

  • Spring green in the woods, that fresh new sunlit color

  • Hearing Christmas songs

  • Soft velvet in rich colors against my skin

  • Driving in my car with good music playing on a country road with very little idea where I am.