1. God
2. Peabody braving the cold (more than I.)
3. the dentist must be skilled because throughout the appointment I hear David talking, don’t know how he got to look in his mouth
4. Warm office and warm house, though the cold outside sometimes isn’t always so severe, with sun and relaxing into it (and if the wind isn’t blowing 20-30 miles an hour)
5. Sometimes silent car rides with David (I remember many silent car rides with my father) and we also talk a lot.
6. Children’s books
7. Remembering Frog and Toad sitting being sad together and then sitting being happy together, and then the snail brings the letter one sent to the other (Arnold Lobel thus anticipated “snail mail.”

“To dive down, to find the beauty in a moment’s passing, to inhabit time with a breath, to be fully present to another’s beating heart, is both an act of perception and imagination. I love that even a time of stillness can be shared through the gift of presence; that silence, too, speaks a language of caring and connection.” Katrina Kenison