1. God
2. The little tomato plant Cassie which yields little orange and yellow tomatoes
3. Big tomatoes ripening on the vines
4. Bill and his family moving to the east coast again
5. Hearing from Polly
6. Coffee with Dolores
7. Read to
8. Pet greetings
9. Call from my brother
10. Cooler and less humid atmospheric conditions

1. God
2. The people who fixed my car
3. Vacation
4. Now I know why people endure the traffic to go to Cape Cod
5. The infinite ocean horizon
6. Schools of fish
7. Seals
8. The sharktivity app
8. Harbor
9. Ponds
10. What the glaciers left in their wake
11. Fresh fish tasting like the sea
12. Nature preserves
13. Salt marshes
14. Books to read
15. Time to take
16. Fathomless constellations
17. Oyster shells as a reminder

1. God
2. Crystal
3. Feeling good
4. Much needed rain
5. Car fixed
6. That moment
7. Flowers for the neighbors
8. Tasting Alan’s home grown corn on the cob, which he planted and nurtured with such industry
9. Strains

1. God
2. Bev with her “turtle” laugh
3. Help along the way
4. Happy dog
5. First eggplant, hanging towards the ground
6. Outside on another hot night
7. Matrices
8. Circles
9. Dissonant grace notes or chords

1. God
2. Self compassion
3. Editing
4. colorful punctuation of zinnias
5. Triangles
6. Strangeness
7. Got my contract for next year in the mail, looks like the college wants me back ;)
8. Alan loaned us a table and some chairs
9. Cheryl gives Peabody and Pegasus treats
10. The yellow birds have returned with the blooming sunflowers

1. God
2. A walk in the woods
3. Wild flowers
4. Able to stand up to my older brother. It was not about winning the argument but speaking my mind. I could not have done that as a kid or even a younger man.
5. having a hat to lend ( not a King’s Lead Hat)
6. Air conditioning when needed
7. My brother told me that Simon, his son, walked into his parents’ room on The morning of his birthday and said I am 5.
8. Birthday present for Simon and unbirthday presents for his brothers. I thought Simon’s mother and father would curse me later for the two hundred pieces comprising Simon’s gift, but Chloe, his mother, God bless her, put it together, perhaps with help from the kids, I don’t know, I was talking to my mother while this was happening.
9. Sometimes I follow Peabody. On a perfectly hot night we walked past a house with the sound of bongo drums. The men were playing to the sounds of a record of salsa music. (I learned from David M., a colleague, that there are also these minus one recordings, like for a cellist it would have all the orchestral sounds except the cello with which the musician could play along)
10. Rain shower and not caring, can’t speak for Peabody, though, shake , shake, shkfshkfshfshkffshk

1. God
2. Crystal (with a cooing Hannah)
3. Lucy Anne
4. Public portulacca
5. Flowering time
6. Breezes on hot summer nights
7. Splashes (Pamela, my sister in law has a dog named Captain Splash)
8. Alan, my nephew, at the easel, with markers. Simon takes his turn.
9. Smiling so hard
10. July days RN (right now, not necessarily registered nurse, but could be) and in the memory, lots of long hot summers

1. God
2. Crystal’s podcasts
3. The idea of order with key limes, and their uncommon sourness
4. “trying to taste the difference from lemon and lime”
5. Sunflowers opening
6. Red-tailed bird flying too quickly to identify
7. Carried away
8. Not finished
9. Finished

1. God
2. Air
3. Questions
4. Stories
5. Witness
6. Remembrance
7. Your words, movement and being

1. God
2. Parks
3. Recreation
4. Geese on the water (although some where’s on land they have taken over)
5. Choosing gratitude with MaryEllen and everyone on this site
6. How Crystal met Mark. And then their fabulous children.
7. Waterways and light and shadow underneath the bridges
8. Happy hosta
9. Feathers