1. God
2. Flowers from Cassie
3. Letter for Dolores
4. Saying what I mean and meaning what I say
5. Note from Breanna saying she will pay it forward
6. Stroking a cat
7. The cadences of Hector’s voice
8. The delicatessen with its intriguing comestibles
9. Time at the ascent and descent of the street of bricks

1. God
2. Warm inside
3. Light overhead
4. Resilience
5. Encouragement
6. Interconnectedness
7. Someone
8. Speech

1. God
2. Standing
3. Questions
4. Flavors
5. A book from Betsy via the cloud
6. Friends
7.Blessings

1. God
2. Writing a letter
3. Cadences
4. Lunch with Catherine and Richard
5. Helper applications
6. Signs
7. The dancers
8. Spelling keys

1. God
2. Unheard sounds
3. Good dream interrupting a nightmare
4. Parts of the world holding those I love
5. Axis
6. Quality of mercy
7. Even in prose
8. Stories
9 + 1

1. God
2. Aunt Collette lives on in her mousse recipe
3. The view at the reservoir
4. Mud
5. Rest
6. Loop
7. The kids
8. Ideas flying
9. Dialogue trees
10. Silence out there and in here

1. God
2. Family
3. My father’s sense of humor
4. Quiet house
5. Next day’s birds
6. Noises in the street
7. Clothing
8. Warmth
9. A place to lay my head
10. Oliver stopped by to talk and wish us a Merry Christmas

1. God
2. An evening out (I don’t think it was with the constellations or the sun but there was a full moon or the beginnings of one)
3. A calendar of black cats
4. Beloved dog
5. Trills and sparkles
6. The Charlie Browniest Christmas tree on the porch
7. People in your heart
8. The eggs
9. The twins who can think each others’ thoughts and speak each others’ words
10. Christmases now and in the memory

1. God
2. Carols sacred secular and in human form
3. Waltz for Debbie
4. Erica for making time to speak with me
5. Stopping time
6. Gosia got a job and she gets to work with John P., whom many of us think should be canonized
7. Imperfect saints among us
8. Gravity
9. Catching, holding and letting go
10. Melissa and our work together

1. God
2. Hannah made it home safely
3. David likes his job and would take more hours if offered
4. Warm climes no complaint there
5. Betsy and Michael for driving to our site visits
6. Cassie came up with a great gift idea for our staff – coffee mugs that name books that have been banned at one time or another. When you pour hot liquid into the mug the blacked out titles are revealed. She did the wrapping too, bless her.
7. Andrea’s return (x2)
8. Chris willing to help
9. Gratitude reminders – especially to give more energy to what I’m grateful for
10. Surprised by poetry