1. God
2. Tasks done for the moment, watching the snowflakes
3. How people continue to go about their days and do what they must even in extreme weather
4. Peabody could be our paper shredder. We could save the electricity. Or we could rent him out to kids who need “the dog ate my homework” excuse
5. One day
6. Tracks to stop in
7. Helen’s mother – especially for giving birth to Helen

1. God
2. Frozen tears
3. Stream of life
4. brooks dissent
5. not telling somebody how to do their job
6. song cycle
7. post horn
8. secrets
9. opening the hand
10. opening the heart

1. God
2. A cardinal in the snow
3. Pegasus in the open window feeling the cold, fresh air, and the warm sunlight
4. Johnny shoveled the path in exchange for borrowing the shovel
5. Brain Pickings – for reading discovery and an exemplification of synthetic knowledge (for example)
6. Songs to survive the winter
7. How formulas dissolve
8. Whatever I thought was wrong
9. Whether there will be weather

1. God
2. Neighbors
3. Ingrid’s daughter (Marina?) saying to her, change is possible, how her mother is a model, and how she looks forward to “being an adult with you”
4. A pathway for Peabody
5. Cats making sure of us
6. A crock pot
7. Leftovers
8. Room for everything
9. Sunrise

1. God
2. A brother to call
3. A voice
4. A telephone (even if the folks back home don’t want to talk)
5. Four wheel drive
6. David takes the city bus and walks several blocks to school, mostly on his own initiative, progress
7. Cassie
8. Jeanette bought coffee for us all at the office
9. Cuddles

1. God
2. Sometimes finding solutions is simple, like moving a pawn to win a chess game
3. Solutions finding themselves or emerging, usually from whatever I haven’t tried or considered
4. Brave emergency personnel in the blizzard
5. Cleaner streets – enough to navigate, after two to three of snow
6. Snow covered hills in the distance, which were cold
7. And the wind came down from the cold mountains
8. David managing just fine
9. Yellow tulips in yellow vases

1. God
2. Light
3. Walking outdoors
4. Heat
5. Electricity
6. Containers
7. Transmission
8. Love
9. Breathing

1. God
2. Pluck and resourcefulness of non-human creatures
3. Weather forecasting
4. The wind
5. Instruments agreeing in the dead of winter
6. Silence before a storm
7. Precautions
8. After I gave a woman coins to put air in her tires and whatever air time was left in the machine when I paid, she said something good will happen to you today. I didn’t tell her it already had.
9. Visiting with Hannah if only briefly. Helping her with homework, that hasn’t happened in – oh, maybe ten years?
10. Cassie taking a break so that I could walk Peabody and cook dinner (with instructions)

1. God
2. Snow as white as snow
3. Cassie made a snowman
4. Dog training
5. Muffin, out in the snow, jumped back in through the window
6. Better at work
7. Acknowledging better
8. A shovel to loan our neighbor also jumper cables
9. Scrabble
10. The company of grateful people

1. God
2. My mother and father
3. How Cassie loves Peabody
4. Kristie’s fabulously welcoming smile
5. Breakfast with David
6. Cutlery
7. Cylinders
8. Black cats on the bed (plus sometimes one calico)
9. Rose