1. God

2. Seeing Hannah

3. Tammy’s pictures

4. A white magnolia outside my office

5. Pierre and Tony came over to put back the pipe that fell over during the storm

6. Oliver was patient about it, it had fallen to rest on a rung of his fence.  If that’s the worst that happened, he told me, I’m OK.

7. During National Library Week, gratitude for some amazing library colleagues

8. David telling my father about studying biology, that they were learning about DNA.  “They hadn’t invented that when I was in school,” my father joked.

9. A purple necklace for Cassie

10. Blooming forsythia indoors and out.

11. “there was no thing on earth I wanted to possess”