1. God

2. Not having to go to work

3. Having work not to go to

4. The self seeding sunflower growing through the concrete is beginning to open

5. Backyard barbecue at Charlene and Richard’s

6. Abby and Nathan, a happy couple, live and in pictures

7. Relief from the heat

8. Van, a neighbor, recovering from a stroke, hasn’t lost his sense of humor

9. The engaging young girl who showed me all her games and toys and prizes won at the carnival while her mother was involved in conversation.

10. “In every moment, we are dying and being born, and in our times of transformation, we descend into the darkness, move through it, and if we stay with the intelligence of our own internal guidance, we emerge out into the light, budding with new life.”  Words from Julie Daley for any day, every day.