1. God

2. Paul took me to lunch

3. Stumbling across a study on how gratitude works, which examines a function called the WTR (Welfare Tradeoff Ratio,) but the writer might have looked at WLG :)

4. A tense meeting that went well

5. tomatoes beginning to ripen

6. the kids next door fascinated with Ella

7. John in Maine

8. Finding more vases and putting flowers in them