1. God
2. Dwelling in ambiguity
3. Not having an answer
4. Focusing on needs before solutions
5.sometimes a wrongfest
6.identifying people who can help
7. Taking the help that’s offered
8. Noticing avoidance in myself
9. Remembering

1. God
2. Car that keeps going even with the relentless cold weather
3. Holding onto opinions and watching some of them change
4. Seeing positive changes in another
5. All that I take for granted
6. Six dozen of one and half of the other
7.

1. God
2. Changes in the weather
3. Dog walking in the evening
4. Needle and thread
5. Grateful people
6. People with service orientation
7. Muffin, our eighteen year old cat, just keeps moving along, plucky little thing, out for her constitutional
8. The company of pets – they mean you
9. Bright blue sky in winter

1. God
2. Peabody braving the cold (more than I.)
3. the dentist must be skilled because throughout the appointment I hear David talking, don’t know how he got to look in his mouth
4. Warm office and warm house, though the cold outside sometimes isn’t always so severe, with sun and relaxing into it (and if the wind isn’t blowing 20-30 miles an hour)
5. Sometimes silent car rides with David (I remember many silent car rides with my father) and we also talk a lot.
6. Children’s books
7. Remembering Frog and Toad sitting being sad together and then sitting being happy together, and then the snail brings the letter one sent to the other (Arnold Lobel thus anticipated “snail mail.”

“To dive down, to find the beauty in a moment’s passing, to inhabit time with a breath, to be fully present to another’s beating heart, is both an act of perception and imagination. I love that even a time of stillness can be shared through the gift of presence; that silence, too, speaks a language of caring and connection.” Katrina Kenison

1. God
2. To say, yes I was there too
3. Bigger picture
4. and perspective
5. Miniatures
6. Telling the truth
7. Not minding
8. January girls

1. God
2. Souls loved by nature (are they any that aren’t?)
3. Lives
4. Intricicies
5. Preservation
6. Impermanence
7. Messages
8. Traces
“Nothing – it is said of this and that, of almost everything. Only it is never said of nothing.” Antonio Porchia, Voices

1. God
2. Sleep
3. Chimes echoing like a candle’s flame
4. Dreams
5. Arrangements
6. Rain washing away the snow, briefly
7. Cassie remembers to feed the birds
8. The spiraling big band universe
9. although sometimes appears frozen in time

1. God
2. We Love Gratitude and Good List Daily and Crystal for creating and nurturing these spaces and all who write here.
3. Gratitude process
4. Gratitude for appreciating what is now
5. And what may and will be
6. Grateful friends
7. A constant
8. Love
9. There’s always more
10. With heartfelt thanks and appreciation

1. God
2. Ingredients
3. Before dawn
4. A park with trails and a stream
5. and a field
6. and trails that lead some place
7. Picnic table beside a stream for warmer temperatures
8. Abundant writing and details
9. Inhale and exhale

1. God
2. Interconnectedness
3. Flesh
4. Soil
5. Stardust
6. Inside jokes
7. Outside jokes
8. Pegasus kept me company as I slept
9. A card
10. Weight on and off my feet
“Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.” Antonio Porchia, Voices