1. I drove to Walmart with Avi to look for things he needed for sculpture. We visited the fish aisle. As I gazed into the tank of feeder goldfish, one of them stopped swimming and drifted to the surface. It was dead. I was sad for its death. Avi covered my eyes. Later tonight, when I saw him again, I recounted this story as if he were someone else and he laughed.
2. Someone threw an apple at our apartment door today. It made the sound of a heavy book falling from a great height, and no one knew what it was until Caitlin opened the door. The apple's velocity at the point of impact had rendered it partial applesauce. The apple had been red before it hit our door.

These are the things that have differentiated this day from all other days of my life. I'm lucky to have two items today, instead of the customary zero.