1. God
2. Only took so many decades to admit what I don’t know
3. So I ask David, after he makes a pun on Hessians, what are Hessians, and he tells me.
4. Then there are things I don’t know I don’t know
5. Which leads me to think of one of my favorite models, the Johari window
6. And the window on the world
7. And an invitation to greet oneself (and others)
8. Getting the news from poetry

1. God
2. Excited by possibilities
3. We love our new bed
4. So do our animal companions – it gets crowded sometimes
5. Sun emerging
6. Lilac bushes budding
7. Where did this green grass come from?
8. Knowing and knowing again

1. God
2. How can I be more kind?
3. A man talking about an older man who taught him kindness
4. There’s Kind Over Matter, how I found all of you nearly five years ago.
5. Stopping on a harmony
6. Azaleas
7. As many notes

1. God
2. Infusion of poetry
3. Watching a salesman in action – he found out we have a dog, so he talked about dogs. Finding connections like that, discovering what matters to people, the pictures or what they display in their offices and homes. We were buying a mattress. (He didn’t have to put a bucket over his head nor did his colleagues have to sing Jerusalem to end any madness.) Also, Cassie got a pillow that stays cool, no need for flipping.
4. Thinking about needs unmet and uninvented phenomena
5. Hearing the old song “Aura Lee” and learning it is the same melody as “Love me tender, love me true”
6. Herbs that survived the winter in the garden
7. Finding an old rail trail. They need volunteers to maintain, said the sign. Wonder where it goes and how it survived the winter? I’ll go back there. Why didn’t Peabody and I follow it then? We were expected home sooner rather than later, I suppose.

1. God
2. Thank you Rose for your kind and thoughtful words
3. Magnolia blooms
4. Green shoots inside
5. Oliver’s stacks of mulch – he takes good care of his property
6. The veterinarian sutured the cut around Pegasus’s ear, don’t know where he got it
7. Hieroglyphs of the mind

1. God
2. Birdsong
3. Olivier Messiaen who collected birdsong – one of my favorite pieces of his is “Oiseaux exotiques”
4. Prokoviev’s War Sonatas (I thought these were his final three, but evidently he wrote a 9th, which I’ve not heard)
5. Message
6. Many hands

1. God
2. Happy usefulness
3. Breeanna’s galactic smile
4. Judy and her dedication to nursing and nurse education
5. Flowering trees
6. Pansies in hanging pots and situated on the ground
7. Jacob lists gratitude as one of the pillars of employee relations

1. God
2. No longer avoiding the beach
3. Letting Peabody run free until we were told he couldn’t, might disturb the plover nests, so we walked a ways around and then onto the sand again
4. The Revere Beach diet (a clamroll, also hot dogs for Peabody)
5. Magnolia buds
6. Charlene and Richard took us out to dinner
7. Cassie organized the closet, where we keep the CDs and DVDs and inside which I’d packed lots of stuff and forgotten about it. Lucky her, she found a few gifts I’d been planning to give to her. None of them as nice a gift as a clean closet.
8. Taking time to listen more closely and patiently during phone calls (rather than saying “don’t talk while I’m interrupting”

1. God
2. Steve offering help. Looks like George Clooney lite. Didn’t realize he’s about a head taller than me, though neither of us is as tall as Governor Baker.
3. Cassie for filing the taxes
4. Cassie for getting window boxes for our seeds to incubate indoors, like a mini-greenhouse
5. Something special about a dog’s greeting
6. Not to mention cats
7. Loyalty of friends
8. The WLG community

1. God
2. Breakfast with Cassie and David
3. Setting up the umbrella table for a warm day
4. Clean yard
5. Stopping
6. Blue sky in the evening
7. Discovering new poems during National Poetry Month. Here’s one. Quite familiar with the rocky cone of its subject.