notice the nice things.

niceties.

there are five definitions listed by merriam-webster’s online dictionary for the word ‘nicety’. they are:
1. the quality or state of being nice
2. an elegant, delicate, or civilized feature <enjoy the niceties of life>
3. a fine point or distinction <the niceties of table manners>
4. careful attention to details, delicate exactness
5. delicacy of taste or feeling

the classification of “nice” is subjective. you might think a heaping pile of compost is nice because it’s recyclable material while another person may think it’s useless garbage. i happen to think that grafitti is an amazing, complicated, and incredibly brave means of expression, no matter how it may “deface” and “ruin” property all over the world. to each his own (opinion, that is).

i created this page to encourage niceties. i like the idea that somebody - maybe only one and maybe ten million - might agree that nice things still exist. i’ll be posting some well-known, profound, silly, weird, gross…but mostly simple things that people often pass by. i’m hoping to post one nice thing every day, but some days could require more, some none. i make no promises for consistency, i only promise to make nice.

katie

(ps: i should probably go ahead and put it out in to the internets that i don’t own anything i post unless i say so, and i’ll source anything i do post that doesn’t belong to little old me. thanks!)