1. God

2. A buffet exquisitely prepared by culinary students (with a decorated ice block)

3. Heidi

4. Driving directions

5. Rivers, always rivers

6. A young man with a child

7. A beautiful appreciation of a daughter for her father and her self-discovery

8. Yes, surrendering for love and care for a pet, mutually

9. Amy on a hundred thousand new things (oh to be awake for them or any)

10. Reading stories with Cassie about D Day, also watching stories on television, admiring soldiers with extraordinary courage and thinking of how it might have been otherwise

1. God

2. Noise of jackhammers and electrical equipment in the street on into the night.  We found out there were a number of gas leaks in our area and appreciate the men who worked tirelessly and the police who told us why.

3. What to do?  Laugh with Jimmy Fallon and then fall asleep once the noise subsided.

4. Group of people working to move something forward. I just brought them together and set in motion

5. Christa on life’s messiness

6. Rain passing over

7. Fresh herbs from the garden

8. Something like this

9. Passing kind words on to others

1. God

2. Somewhere

3. Everywhere

4. Katy, she’s my friend

5. Reconnecting with Tom

6. Talking about anxiety lessens it

7. Rhododendrons of many colors

8. Steps and 1/2 steps

1. God

2. Irises and more irises

3. Looking into green

4. Not rushing

5. Talking with Paul

6. Affection from cats

7. Acknowledgement

8. Resolution

9. Pursuance

10. Psalm

1. God

2. Rain

3. Someone keeping a seat for me

4. Less is less

5. And that’s OK

6. Breathing

7. Accidental phone calls that turn out not to be accidental

8. Chat

9. Infinite loop

1. God

2. Reconnecting and receiving help from some old friends

3. Oliver bringing over his power washer to help us clean

4. Iced tea with mint from our garden

5. Breakfast with David, talking about Memorial Day, parents and children and rock and roll

6. Listening to Cassie’s presentation, offering feedback, outside at our new table, sitting on new chairs

7. Shea butter (as an unguent, not to eat)

8. Lindsey’s love

9. Meghan’s pictures

10. Christa on remembering

11. Katrina writes about doing what you love and what is needful, through a parent’s eyes

1. God

2. Irises emergent

3. Cassie returns home from a successful business trip

4. Stopped at a market unknown to me and sampled their food.  So many friendly, smiling people

5. Uncertain light

6. Out of the rain

7. The rhododendron’s return

8. Ella likes her cat climber from which she can survey the kitchen

9. A thousand ships

1. God

2. Dinner with Gosia

3. Her delight in life

4. A fine loaf of bread

5. Splashes of sunlight

6. Warm nights

7. Affectionate notes Cassie left for me to find

8. Water

9. White azalea

10.White lilacs

1. God

2. Crystal :)

3. Pam, an emergent leader

4. Eric, ever agreeable

5. Paul, welcoming me in his office and showing me how to read the charts

6. Tibbs on a cool car roof

7. Not a ninny faced bassoonist

8. Getting away with it anyway

9. What time tells

10. Smiles from Susana

1. God

2. Fourth dimension azaleas steeped in sunlight

3. Cassie filling pots with flowers

4. Dinner on the patio (asphalt, actually)

5. Company

6. Tammy’s watercolors

7. Good advice