1. God

2. Helen found the right scriptural verse

3. Just to listen

4. The snowplow man and his companion with the shovel

5. giving them coffee

6. snow day!

7. Reading Katrina’s thoughts on the labyrinth and enoughness and gratitude

8.

“One cannot make bargains for blisses
Or catch them like fishes in nets
And sometimes the things that life misses
Help more than the things that it gets.”

from “Nobility,” by Alice Cary, as quoted in Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist