1. God
2. Simple words
3. Some kind of corroboration
4. Surprise in the middle
5. Alan hung Christmas lights everywhere, even over both our fences, so we really don’t need to put up any :)
6. Some kind of compass
7. Peonies in a small vase, reminder of June
8. tinctured roses
9. Reading books
10. Half a circle

1. God
2. Brushes
3. Observing with the body?
4. Not knowing what is coming
5. Julia with the smile of the century
6. An interested audience
7. She was nice and gave me water so I wouldn’t burn
8. A ride so I would not get wet
9. A loaner car
10. The new possibility

1. God
2. The ideal committee – put as many people as can fit in a taxicab and the group must finish its work before the cab arrives at its destination (according to Edwin Land)
3. Meeting Polly for the first time, and in quite unexpected circumstances
4. Geometry
5. Pictures
6. Words and memories
7. The Christmas tree in the park in the dark

1. God
2. Time body
3. Paths in four dimensions
4. Tone clusters
5. Peabody disappearing into the woods and then emerging
6. Cat(s) waiting at the door
7. Thought and body journeys
8. Limitless blue sky
9. Reminders of paths not taken
10. Gratitude like a spiral

1. God
2. Holding space
3. Crystal
4.Crystal’s book, savoring its contents
5. Crystal’s T shirts (one in every color, please – well, maybe just pink and mint and green);)
6. A young man I met today, so thoughtful and relaxed and attentive
7. Debby for hosting us and good conversation
8. Notes Cassie leaves on the bed
9. Neutral space
10. Chances

1. God
2. Floors
3. Ceilings
4. The mail
5. Bill and Michel inviting us over. Michel and I laughed loudly and often. Bill was in a bad mood but gave me a hug anyway.
6. Fine details from the blade and machine
7. So much time, too many books
8. Time and temperature
9. Vanishing point

1. God
2. Thank you, Crystal
3. Relaxation
4. The feeling of the hard chair
5. The room
6. Spaces between and within
7. Atoms
8. Glass
9. Discoveries
10. Among the living

1. God
2. Continuing Thanksgiving blessings
3. “the way to enlarge gratitude is to frequently express it”
4. Warmer climes
5. Abundance
6. Trust
7. Cassie for hosting my mother and father and David and Chris
8. Expressions of gratitude everywhere
9. For how things are, not perfection
10. My father when I said I’d see him tomorrow “hope so, don’t know from one day to the next what’s going to happen” he said laughing

1. God
2. Gratitude everywhere
3. Greetings where kindness is
4. Coming home to the smells of Cassie’s cooking
5. Hannah, David, Emily, all working
6. Cleaning up and putting away
7. The enduring herbs
8. The last leaves
9. Temperature fluctuations
10. A dog and his smells
11. The cats and their own solitude

1. God
2. Habitable earth
3. Ground
4. Feet that go, usually without my thinking about where
5. Recognizable sounds
6. Addition
7. Picking up where I stopped
8. Close and holy darkness