1. God

2. Warmer days and nights for a brief time

3. Hannah drove herself back to school safely

4. Cassie for coming to her aid before she left

5. Chopping vegetables and herbs from the garden and cooking them

6. Sight of a woodpecker among the sunflower stalks

7. Talking with Alan and Simon, Andrew’s children, on the phone

8. Andrew is playing the clarinet again. I think he stopped because it disturbed the neighbors. Well, we still have neighbors, he said. Yes, I noted, but they are not immediately up or downstairs.

9. A card for Susana with the word thrive

1. God

2. Helen

3. Cassie is a magnet for friends

4. Turn for the wursts

5. Maurice and Cornelius brought a cake for Bill, Cassie’s father, as we remembered him on his birthday

6. Catherine and Richard brought a crawfish in a big tub but the cats weren’t interested

7. Amphitheater

8. The Sad Ghost club is on to something here here here and here

1. God

2. Julia

3. Unfamiliar roads in the evening

4. Roads that lead someplace logically

5. An elegant set of cards which I bought from Sheila

6. Baked squash

7. Agreement

8. God’s octave

1.  God

2. Purple sky

3. Appearance of tree branches emerging from a chimney like smoke

4. Mini orchestra

5. Foliage

6. Early morning company with Cassie and the cats

7. Welcoming hands on distant shores

8. Finding

1. God

2. Good

3. Plans for David to visit Emily in Chicago and how much he appreciates it

4. Zucchini flowers

5. Not to mention a surprise fresh zucchini

6. Improvements in wireless fidelity

7. 1/2 step

8. The life that wants to live me

1. God

2. Keeping my head

3. My fingers solved the problem and my head had nothing to do with it

4. Keeping a promise to myself

5. Compassion for and connection with others

6. Slight return from Bob

7. Messages from the universe

8. Universal language

1. God

2. Following instructions to do it now, I planted bulbs

3. Cloud formations

4. Terry coming over for some loving and the gift she gave us

5. Flowers within

6. Swarm of butterflies

7.

1. God

2. A thought and no-thought exercise with Bob

3. Visiting my mother and father

4, Mornings, dark and otherwise

5. Forgetting

6. Late vegetables

7. Cassie’s appreciation when I made dinner and brought it to her in bed

1. God

2. How gratitude awakens one

3. How animals awaken one

4. Jenna’s love for Willie, her chihuaua

5. Whom she told me about while she was cutting my hair

6. A fair on the town common

7. The mayor danced with the senator

8. A book of photography where I saw this: http://www.portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=31020;type=101#

1.  God

2. Light in September

3. Cassie’s new computer

4. Plumfest

5. Please and thank you

6. Message from Hannah

7. A simple conversation with Pam

8. Eyes

9. Library books waiting