1. God
2. Laurie for reminding me of breath and body awareness
3. Eric took the initiative
4. One take
5. Mistakes part of the picture or no
6. The trio music of Jimmy Giuffre in 1961
7. The long slide

1. God
2. Five years or so ago, Emily gave me a bracelet, nickel or nickel plated, with the Serenity Prayer inscribed upon it.
3. I wore it every day as a reminder, for about two years, like a talisman or amulet.
4. One night at my mother and father’s house, while putting stuff in the car, the bracelet slipped off my wrist. It was too dark to discover immediately.
5. Later a search of the car turned up nothing, nor did I see it in the driveway or on either side, especially under the row of burning bushes.
6. Since, every now and then, I would look, and not see it. Snow would come along, and pass with other seasons.
7. Yesterday, visiting my mother and father again, I was talking with my father as he watered the grass and holding Peabody by the leash, who had other ideas (go, go, go,) and thought of it again.
8. A quick glance under the burning bushes and I noticed some end of a metal coil pointing up, sitting on top of the dead leaves there.
9. I put it on, not much worse for wear, needing a little polish maybe.
10. I could say, where did my serenity go during the time it was missing. That would seem too facile, and yet there was a time last year after hearing it said that I realized I’d forgotten it – the words, never mind the practice,
11. a gift I wasn’t looking for and was always there and still is, absent me or the bracelet.

1. God
2. Echo of the chime where does the sound vanish, where go the waves
3. Circles
4. Passing by houses
5. Puffy cumulus clouds in a blue sky
6. The apple tree rooted in the ground and in the mind

1. God
2. Reading outside in the morning
3. Afternoon nap
4. Scent of freshly harvested basil
5. Shocked by sunflowers
6. Announcement of yellow finch
“Set the mind
before the mirror of eternity

and everything will work.”
-from “Untitled” by Franz Wright

1. God
2. Hugs
3. Blue sky
4. Warmth of instruments
5. Compassion through experience
6. Helen’s trust and fortitude
7. Chris helping Hannah

1. God
2. the eye(s) that fashioned it, then and now, and the hands that created and continue to maintain it
3. Path under trees
4. Antique bridge
5. Mary Poppins in the Park
6. Daisy chains
7. Art in the park
8. Place to sit
9. absorbing the earth’s tilt and motion through gravitational waves

1.God
2. Good meeting
3. Talking with Hannah and David
4. Growth and endurance of flowers
5. Cats wanting some loving
6. A good life
7. Getting to meet Kate’s father

1. God
2. Hannah
3. David
4. Invitation to celebrate Kate’s birthday
5. which was, in part, like going to a dog park
6. driving through farm country, with signs that read horses have the right of way
7. Meal made from vegetables from the garden, not needing to buy anything else

1. God
2. Downpour passing over
3. Cooler weather
4.Letters
5. Connections and links
6. Unexpected
7. Growth everywhere

1. God
2. Delivery
3. New growth
4. Morning walk with Peabody
5. Taking time for appreciation
6. Cool mist
7. View from here
“we will NEVER run out of things to be grateful for…people to be grateful for…experiences to be grateful for.” – Brave Girls Club