1. God
2. Values
3. Quantities
4. Qualities
5. Carpet of leaves
6. Air is abstract, sidewalks are concrete (though sometimes brick or asphalt)
7. Beautiful days strung together (by clouds?)
8. Sun rising and sun setting
9. Nothing new under the sun (Hardly)

1.God
2.Assistance
3.Tomatoes ripening on the windowsill
4. Herbs lasting , sage, thyme, rosemary (Peabody would sleep in the oregano, sometimes the mint, but they are hardy
5. A simple solution
6. Humility
7. Faith
“Giving … creates a sense of abundance.” Katrina Kenison, Mpments of Seeing

1. God
2. Cloudy days in November
3. Fallen leaves and other November sadness
4. Oddities, like plants that flower after the first frost(s)
5. A card that says “thank you for accepting people as they are”
6. The lost phrase found

“Kindness is always a good choice, no matter what else is going on.” – Katrina Kenison, Moments of Seeing

1. God
2. Warming trend
3. Oxygen in the room
4. Light in darkness
5. Clean sheets
6. Echoing silence
7. Out of doors
8. Amidst a flurry of birds, a cardinal, atop the chain link fence, trembling among the ruins of the morning glories
“no matter how old I am or how much my life changes, things can still feel new and fresh. Wonder doesn’t expire.” Katrina Kenison, Moments of Seeing

1. God
2. Letters of silence
3. Mixed November
4. Fields of November early and late
5. Sunsets remembered
6. Surprised by warmth
7. Half sick of shadows
“What I’d come to realize … is that as long as we write what we love, it is worth doing, if only to honor that which is beautiful and precious and fleeting in our lives.” Katrina Kenison, Moments of Seeing

1. God
2. Peabody (and his resting place, near where he can chase the bunnies)
3. Gold not staying
4. The trombone’s elephantine sounds
5. The moving trees
6. Card from Cheryl
7. Memories of Chicago
8. Rolling varieties of apples
“To really value life is to know: the best moments are often the ones we might miss altogether if we weren’t paying attention.” Katrina Kenison, Moments of Seeing

1. God
2. Evidence of gratitude,seeing others practicing gratitude
3. Wishing others well
4. Compassion for myself that I would have for others and vice versa
5. Tomatoes resurgent
6. Crystal’s turnarounds
7. Side of a hill
8. Surprised by colors
9. The long slide (at Skyline Park and from before)

1. God
2. Sunsets
3. Subdividing the task
4. Neither all or nothing – sometimes
5. Walking around and talking
6. Hats
7. Smells of herbs through the window
8. Yellow finches landing on sunflowers too
9. Steve P on negative thinking and acting – like a warning light on my car’s dashboard that I need to pay attention to, which reminds me why listening to him is a good thing
“Mrs. Whiting remained undaunted for the simple reason that she never, ever allowed herself to dwell on the magnitude of whatever she was confronted with … Each day Mrs. Whiting had a “To Do” list, and the brilliance of that list lay in the fact that she was careful never to include anything undoable. On those rare occasions when a task proved more complicated or difficult than she’d imagined, she simply subdivided it. In this fashion, the woman never encountered anything but success…She might be delayed, but never deterred.
“Her daughter, on the other hand, was forever being deterred. Temperamentally unable to master her mother’s simple trick, Cindy Whiting immediately envisioned the entirety of what lay before her and was thus in one deft stroke overwhelmed and defeated by it. She wasn’t so much a dreamer … as a believer, and what she believed in, or wished to, was the possibility of complete transformation. At some point in her young life she’d come to believe that the whole world, the totality of her circumstance, would have to change if change was to do her any good. … After all, her whole world had undergone a complete transformation …as a little girl … [,] … an event that had taught her how quickly everything could change, and that the stroke accomplishing such danger is swift, powerful and beyond human comprehension. She was simply waiting for it to happen again.” Richard Russo, Empire Falls

1. God
2. Alan’s beans and cukes – so fresh!
3. The little antique chest
4. Salve for things that burn
5. Did I mention the tomato bush with little orange and yellow tomatoes
6. All sorts
7. The hotel of the mind
8. Reemerging
9. More than half measures
10. Neither all or nothing
“One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.” Richard Russo, Empire Falls

1. God
2. Dialectics
3. Mentors and other networks separate and no real separation
4. The speaker offering her heart and experience and future to young people
5. Unknown bird
6. Downy woodpecker straddling a sunflower stalk
7. Confession
8. Lessening of discomfort
9. Reading a great book, choked by emotion, not wanting it to end
“The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time after which thought had to be transformed into action. Contemplation was like sitting on a committee that seldom made recommendations and was ignored when it did, a committee that lacked even the authority to disband.” Richard Russo, Empire Falls