Soul-delighters

I'd like to casually share with you a few this-and-thats that delight my soul 🧚‍♀️ the most, in random order:

Discovering new vocabularly  (ah..mine brain 🧠! )

Words/phrases that produce effects of alliteration (ah mine ears 👂 🎶 !)

Performing on stage ( 💃 stage-gasm) 

Validation from a loved one (naturally!)

Good, wholesome music (duh!) 🎶 😍 

Writing a satisfying piece of work (uff, nothing like a good mind-bending satisfaction in nerd-land!) 📝 💡 😌

Reading a good book (I rest my case) 📚 ♥ 

Oriental relationships in romcoms (found in Mid-European, Middle-Eastern, and Asian arts) 📼 🎦 👫 

Alone-time with God. (NOTHING like it) ✨ 

Mehndi/alta on my hands and feet. (Alta is preferrable. Love the fragrance of Mehndi too!) ☺️

Travelling or reveling in travel memories. (Nothing like discovering and re-doscovering new places and people) 🏝️🏞️🏖️🏕️

Finding beauty in a foreign language (linguasms?haha) 👀 

Excelling in something new. (discovering that you're quite good at something which you've not tried before gives you an amazing sense of self-belief) 💪 😎

Watching the evening sky (I've had some beautiful-sky evenings just in November, ranging from the fiery wispy pinks to stormy lightening-clad silvers. What a marvelous Painter-of the Skies we have! ) 🌃 

Watching/listening to the rain. (pluviophile-problems) ☔ 

Bird-songs at dawn. (What's up with the colorful sweetlings at dawn that they sing such incomparable tunes. No man-made melody can beat those.) 🐦 🎶 

Aroma of strong coffee. (I like both my men and coffee strong; thank you very much) ☕ 👨 

Fragrance of new books (uff!) , roses (sigh), and freshly sun-dried laundry (mmmhmm) 📚 🌹 ☀ 👗 

Tangy fruit-juices (lime, orange, anything with citrus please!) 🍊🍋🥭

Sound and dreamless sleep. (I've been an insomniac for many years which had huge negative effects on my overall health. I treasure the nights when I fall asleep easy and long) 🛌🧖‍♀️

Self-love (thank you, lockdown!) 🤗 🤸‍♀️

Giving ( the best feeling is seeing someone else's face light-up with joy when they open their gifts) 📦 🤝 

Malla (I simply and bluntly CANNOT imagine life without him. Annoying and a big bully as is, he teaches me everyday some quaintly fun facts about being a man, and he fills our home and my heart with joy) 👨‍🦱

Deep and meaningful conversations (intellectgasm?haha) 🗣️ 🎶 

Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. 👑 

Quietude. (Yes I absolutely love talking, but I can go long long periods without talking too. 🙂  I'm sure you've already noticed) 

Listening to myself. (A blissful side-effect of self-care; I've started to love talking/singing to my soul, and my soul loves hearing me comforting and nourishing it. Oh the years I've wasted without doing this.. ! Gotta enjoy every fragment of life this way 🥰 ) 

What delights "your" soul? Let me know in the comments below. Have a blissful Christmas time! 🎄 💫 👸 🍾 💃 💐