1. God

2. Lilacs in bloom

3. Seeds we started, putting the sprouts in the garden

4. Running water and long hoses

5. Making breakfast for Cassie (evidently Emily told her that she should get me to take her out to breakfast, and Cassie, bless her, told Emily it was even better not to leave the house.)

6. Taking Hannah and David to visit their grandmother at the library and give her birthday cards (that was Cassie’s idea)

7. Lettuce emerging. We haven’t had success planting it. Maybe this time.

8. Proud to know the names of flowers like Whitman asked “have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?”

9. Julia Fehrenbacher: her openness, storytelling and art

“Art is always visionary. Art always disturbs present realities, however satisfactory they may seem to the rest of the world.” Ben Shahn in Selden Rodman, Conversations with Artists