1.God
2. Much needed rain
3. Meditations on my iPod
4. Hearing Pegasus’s cry and letting him in
5. Electric light
6. Bed covers
7. Poetry to read
8. More wind and rain
9. Soft sounds in the room
10. Echoes in the mind

1. God
2. Starting from gratitude
3. David’s teachers
4. My parents for their love of their grandchildren
5. I think my father laughs more the older he gets
6. Window boxes
7. Thank you to Barry for mentioning architecture. My attention is drawn by building shapes, angles, light, details.
8. What I will I remember from yesterday?
9. Feeling different from yesterday

1. God
2. Cassie invited Merritt and Terri over for dinner, and they brought their dogs with them
3. Good to know that Helen and Amelia are safe
4. David explains meteors to me – we didn’t get to meteorites though
5. Let me remember things I don’t know
6. Finding myself in a strange town
7. More cool evenings after hot days
8. Hanging plants
9. Wind

1. God
2. You
3. Silent music
4. Happy memories
5. Cool evenings
6. Cool mornings
7. Reminders
8. Focus
9. Attention
10. Appreciation

1. God
2. Roses
3. Plants everywhere
4. Gratitude forward
5. An unknown road
6. Noticing silence in the car early in the morning
7. Cool breezes
8. OK in the present

1. God
2. Crystal
3. Cassie taught me love and care of pets
4. Thinking of it, Chris was first, when he rescued Kitty on the road side and brought her home.
5. We bonded while Chris was away and she would walk all over me in bed and elicit tiny little cries, she was my cat, and that was almost thirty years ago, imagine
6. Planting – digging in the soil, tramping the dirt down, pulling weeds, watering, there’s a meditative quality to planting, though my mind wanders
7. Cassie taught me that too, though it was so many summers ago when Emily said let’s get in the car and we picked out flowers and I planted them in a little garden and took care of them, my first garden and except for a few summers here and there we’ve always tended one
8. Colors and flow
9. Light – especially in summer evenings
10. Stream of bird chatter
11. The prose poems of Franz Wright (here’s another)

1. God
2. The people who hang their bird cage outside – blue and yellow parakeets
3. Memories of our birds, finches, we had many in succession, Cassie used to bring them outside and they’d sing, sing, sing
4. Stopping by a neighbor’s house and asking about their landscaping
5. Lily of the valley
6. Well tended gardens
7. Passing Oliver and Clotilda at the corner, Oliver would have stopped and talked but Clotilda had already crossed at the light
8. Peabody’s time
9. Blooming irises – Michel and Bill gave us the bulbs years ago and they return. Saw some yellow beauties further up the street.
10. Now

1. God
2. Touch
3. Chairs
4. Bed
5. Senses
6. Helpful people (known and unknown)
7. Companion animals
8. The fresh tortillas at Sol

1. God
2. Favor
3. Not what I thought it was about
4. Worcesterian (not wisterian) spirea
5. Purple and white lilacs
6. Just spotted Pegasus, wish he would leave that gray cat alone, but it’s his nature
7. Prayer and patience
8. Buy then, bid then

1. God
2. Spirea blooming
3. and azaleas
4. Irises slowing returning
5. Looks like the rhodie is going to make it, took a beating this past winter
6. Pruning
7. Container plants now in the ground and watered
8. Something about a greeting from a dog like Peabody
9. Cats usually run away, and I miss Tibbs who would come out yowling from his hiding place. Pegasus rubs up against me when I feed him, of course.
10. Horse and rider