1. God
2. Gratitude finds you
3. Learning from Laura that the average bear is smarter than we thought, elephants have remarkable communication and emotions (maybe they dream of music,) and other non-human traits that belie human uniqueness (and aloneness.)
4. Hearing what I could not hear before
5. Not minding
6. Letting someone else figure it out
7. November
8. Company of cats
9. A dog with his own destinations and people who care for him and are happy to see him