1. God

2. Positive thinking

3. Restraint

4. Choice

5. Dangling eggplants

6. A kind veterinarian

7. Encouraging words

8. Eyes of the night

1. God

2. Varieties of plums

3. Seeing Bob again after a long time (I didn’t have t o give him a ride although that would have been OK)

4. Reading a landscape and gardening book with Cassie and talking about possibilities

5. Basil harvest

6. Kids playing around us

7. Nancy

8. September sky

1. God

2. A postcard from Crystal with “merit badges for strangers,” such as “thank you for being yourself.”  She challenged me to give them out (though I want to keep them because I like them so much.  :) )

3. Return of the daisies

4.”Peaches the color of sunrise/Plums the color of dusk” ( I didn’t mention blackberries, we don’t have any at the moment. ;)

5. Changes in tempo

6. Reflective notes

7.Excellent birds

8. Some place within

9.Wind

10. Rain

1. God

2. learning

3. and relearning

4. sanctuary

5. wishing Paul success with his new job

6. brightly colored impatiens

7. flying ideas

8. sunflowers blooming indoors

9. stretched notes

1. God

2. Humility

3. Welcoming

4. Some dream

5. Lines

6. Focus

7. Trees, sometimes hanging together over the road like an arch

8. Gifts of flowers

9.  Gifts of life

1. God

2. Doc in the box, and some remedies

3. Hearing the lesson in hard words

4. A cat’s voice and the feel of her coat

5. Less than a second

6. What I didn’t say

7. The man at the post office helped me find the least expensive way to send two massive textbooks to Hannah. Grateful for his time and patience.

8. Writing

9. Late roses

1. God

2. The deer by the side of the road turned around and ran away instead of into traffic

3. Prayers for those we have asked to pray and for those who have asked us to pray for them

4. Good will

5. A healing process

6. Entertaining angels unawares

7. Some kind of sleep

1. God

2. Crystal and Marc and the doctors and nurses who helped Ava

3. Friends who say what happened

4. Cassie enjoys the town pool

5. A town and a monument

6. Finding some like minded individuals

7. And a world that I’m welcome to

8. Julia’s Life is Poetry series and more poetry

1. God

2. Rain but not too much

3. Driving to Maine

4. An outing with Cassie and David

5. By the water

6. A pleasant spot to enjoy lobsters; Cassie remarked that this is a happy place

7. A good conversation about honesty and avoidance

8. A breakthrough for Cassie

9. Flowers for our neighbors

10. A day ahead

1.God

2. A zinnia’s diadem

3. Butterflies

4. vegetables to bring to my parents

5. An evening wedding with a party in front of an apple tree

6. somewhere I have not visited

7. Cool breezes

8. Buildings that endure

9. People brought together