1. God
2. Open windows
3. and doors
4. sunlight
5. “wait a bit”
6. Using whatever is in the refrigerator to make dinner rather than going to the store
7. Thoughts of spring
8. To begin again

1. God
2. Relationships
3. Intersections
4. Purpose
5. Recognition
6. Cleaning agents
7. Saying what happened
8. Adeline who found Peabody after he escaped from the yard and brought him back to us (we think he climbed over a snowbank, which is now as high as the fence)
9. Safely home

1. God
2. Tony who cleared the snow and ice off of the roof and as a bonus shoveled the debris which had fallen
3. Pierre for the referral, and everything else
4. Heather and Tina who prepared food, set up and cleaned up the party
5. Good fortune in dangerous driving conditions
6. 88 keys (and sometimes 96)
7. Arco or pizzicato
8. Pedals
9. Scales
10. The piano is an orchestra

1. God
2. Erica’s cheery disposition and industriousness
3. Sun
4. Imaginative expansions
5. What’s right
6. Cones
7. Many questions
8. Type

1. God
2. Diane for helping me shovel
3. Sean and his friends for plowing our driveway in 1 degree weather and howling winds
4. Roast chicken
5. Mashed potatoes
6. Electric power and heat holding up during the storm and afterward
7. Cassie giving a ride home to someone as the storm started
8. Pictures of Peabody on the doggie day care website
9. Our mostly patient cats, unwilling to go out with all the snow, and an abundant supply of catnip
10. Time to read
“There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without wishing to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

1. God
2. A night out
3. A day in
4. Dog boarding
5. Things that still function
6. Knowledge and hope
7. An expression of gratitude

1. God
2. Waking
3. Crystal
4. More voices, all voices on WLG
5. Happy to find again my favorite story, heard during an event one night in Durham, N.C. Each storyteller had about 10 minutes to tell a story. For a while all I could find was a truncated version of it, now happy that it is on the website, complete.
6. Lindsey’s Alphabet of Right Now
7. So many
8. grateful reminders
9. Don’t forget to give my love to Rose
“I am willing to learn from my life experiences.” Crystal Andrus Morisette

1. God
2. Riot of blackbirds
3. as the evening leans closer
4. like foliage, they are, no kidding
5. screaming like black bunting
6. at the tops of trees
7. (insert copious white snow)

1. God
2. Marilyn taking time to answer my questions via telephone
3. Johnny showed me to make a knot to keep the electrical cord from falling out of the socket
4. Changes
5. Coleus plants in the window endure
6. Cold comfort
7. Days are getting longer
8. Letters

1. God
2. Birdseed … and those who feed birds
3. Names
4. Writers that talk to each other across time, Katrina knows
5. Pathways
6. Split pea soup (which I don’t dump in my shoes like George)
7. Stillness
8. Laughter
9. Waltzes