1. Goddess
2. Eileen urging me to take self care. A radical act, Brian said later.
3. Cassie released from the hospital 4. 4. Kate and Josh standing by
5. Open hearted co-workers
6. Varieties of maple
7. Magnolia family
8. Walking with Lucy
9. Humbling
10.Finding my floral travel mug which I keep leaving in silly places. Hydration is essential.
11. In search of the present moment, and consonants, and vowels
12. Letting the story go and feeling grounded in some places, and allowing acceptance and enjoyment

“Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.” George Eliot, Middlemarch