If you are looking at something and you find that you’re starting to drool, here is an opportunity to learn.
What we’re drawn to speaks of both our fullness and our deprivations at once:
CHOCOLATE, NOW:
I have a lush sense of the world and a discerning palate / I have a magnesium deficiency
BOOK BOOK BOOK:
I have a lively mind / Please take me anywhere other than here
VACATION:
I am adventurous, capable, and curious / the only place I’ve been in half a decade is Pennsylvania
MASSAGE:
I am a sensuous creature capable of mortal luxuriation / I am going to fall over and die if someone doesn’t poke my back with a yard rake
NEW CAR:
I’d like to be a better citizen of the planet and create fewer emissions / vroom vroom
SILENCE:
I am capable of stillness and light / My brain resembles road-kill after a very salty winter
Or, in the case of my husband: