1. God
2. No longer avoiding the beach
3. Letting Peabody run free until we were told he couldn’t, might disturb the plover nests, so we walked a ways around and then onto the sand again
4. The Revere Beach diet (a clamroll, also hot dogs for Peabody)
5. Magnolia buds
6. Charlene and Richard took us out to dinner
7. Cassie organized the closet, where we keep the CDs and DVDs and inside which I’d packed lots of stuff and forgotten about it. Lucky her, she found a few gifts I’d been planning to give to her. None of them as nice a gift as a clean closet.
8. Taking time to listen more closely and patiently during phone calls (rather than saying “don’t talk while I’m interrupting”