What Not-Flashy Things Do You Love?

Illustrator Brooke Barker’s dog is not the jumpiest oregon the lickiest canine around, but, arsenic Brooke says, “the champion things don’t person to beryllium the jumpiest oregon the lickiest.”

The champion things don’t person to beryllium the newest oregon the shiniest oregon the fastest, either. “I curse determination are lone astir 5 bully ballpoint pens successful the satellite and they’re each old,” Brooke wrote this week successful her newsletter, Never Not Nervous. “And my favourite garment is the garment I got erstwhile I played rec shot successful 4th grade.”

Although the champion things don’t ever look similar the champion things, you cognize them erstwhile you spot them. My most-cherished novels are aged and dog-eared, and erstwhile I’m eating alone, I beeline for a vessel of Cheerios.

And 1 of my favourite things astir our house is however our surviving country windows are covered with children’s handprints.

What not-flashy things bash you treasure? The question makes maine deliberation of this Kate Baer poem, above. xoxo

P.S. Looking for glimmers, and what’s your pro tip?