1. God
2. Shirley’s 90th birthday
3. Traveling to Florida for the event
4. Palms
5. Coastline
6. Sea grape trees
7. Welcome
8. Canape of tree branches over the coastline highway
9. For Cassie, memories of her childhood in Albany, NY
10. Happy nonagenerians

1. God
2. Foliated trees everywhere
3. Buds on the spirea bush
4. Cooling off after several hot days
5. And rain
6. Neutral and not minding
7. The light in someone’s eyes
8. Erica’s son Zachary is feeling better
9. Fish of all kinds

I’m lucky to have my mother and see her today and call her on the phone and have her call me.

Gratitude for all mothers. Mine among them. Kind thoughts to you who miss your mothers. Blessings to you with small and almost grown up children, never not a child in a mother’s eyes or even though grown twice a child?

1. God
2. Lilacs at peak
3. Buds on the spirea bush
4. Seeds which Chloe and Andrew sent now in the ground, nasturtiums, poppies, waiting to see
5. A post
6. Walking over the hill
7. Open windows
8. Suddenness of seasons

1. God
2. From Laura: introducing a friend by honoring what you appreciate in this person, or “with a story”
3. Hannah passed her medical-surgical nursing course exam.
4. Leaves
5. Night air
6. Seeing things differently over a matter of days
7. or from one moment to another
8. Suddenness of ripe peaches
9. The wind carries the aroma of lilacs

1. God
2. Jokes
3. Pegasus checked out OK at the vet, had stitches removed. And thanks to Cassie for enduring the battle to get him there and loosing him afterwards
4. Shawn and his men pulled up the asphalt in the yard. What a clean job they did. It will be much cooler this summer. Why it was there when we bought the house, we’re not exactly sure, hence we call it Asphalt Farms.
5. Peabody ran and ran through the dirt and around the yard furniture like an obstacle course, cheered on by the neighbors.
6. A gift card from a student thanking us for providing a welcoming work environment. We loved having him around and appreciate all his work and wish him well as he graduates.
7. So this is how

1. God
2. Spring more so
3. My mother reminds me to look at the big picture
4. Visiting a town library for the first time and seeing the treasures there, the beautiful oak paneling throughout, as well as the kind librarian who showed me around. She said she was a newcomer by town standards, that she’d been there 40 years.
5. A collection of rocks from more than a century ago, people were interested in nature and they would pass such phenomena around at gatherings, the director told me, as she led me through the museum upstairs.
6. Trios
7. Persisting in my folly so that I might become wise
8. Flow
9. Stepping out of have to

1. God
2. Warmth
3. Brightness
4. Bursts of green through the window
5. Shawn and his group came and pulled out the bushes we no longer wanted
6. Thoughts of what we will plant instead
7. Finding out
8. Thank you

1. God
2. Turning over the garden
3. Most perennials from last summer returned
4. Meeting Terri and Albie at the dog park
5. Taste of fresh chives
6. Watching my father water his tree and the small circles he made with the watering can
7. Where else
8. Coffee with Steve on a sunny morning

1. God
2. Civic tulips in pastel colors
3. Night walk with Cassie and Peabody – “let him lead, it’s his walk,” she said
4. Instantaneous budding and foliation
5. Many definitions (ask Humpty Dumpty) or maybe just one
6. Unexpected notes
7. or resolved chords
8. or not
9. Poetry every day