1. God
2. Better
3. Collaboration
4. People who take care of things in the snow
5. Finding the breath
6. Not accomplishing many things but getting down to essentials, what will fit on a post-it note. If it doesn’t fit on a post-it note, it probably won’t fit into my day.
7. Sunny afternoon
8. Acorn squash
9. Stories of kindness
10. Directions
1. God
2. A warm day
3. Clearing clutter
4. A soup with few ingredients
5. The picture show
6. Pierre coming to talk with us about home improvements
7. Questions of travel
8. Poetry books, even one poem a day
9. Stairs
10. Emily finding additional work
1. God
2. receiving guidance and following it
3. Saying what I feel
4. getting perspective on a situation
5. William went out of his way to bring me boxes
6. Nancy polishing the wood
7. Crossing things off a list
8. Oliver holding onto mail for us and letting us know
9. Good news at the doctor’s office for Cassie
10. People speaking openly about shame and choosing to live differently
1. God
2. Industry
3. Angles of incidence
4. Plant discoveries
5. The car is warm and plays music
6. Water
7. People who are OK staying home sick
8. What a splendid idea – choose your own adventure
9. Me too
10. CrystalBelleP
1. God
2. Taking my father to a concert
3. Free time for my mother
4. Skilled and spirited musicians
5. Feeling
6. My father telling me stories which I may or may not have heard before
7. The taste of memory
8. Analog reading
9. A toy mouse controlled with a mouse – great concept
10. Cassie frequently asks for carrot cake, so she made some
1. God
2. Rising thermometer
3. Quiet mornings
4. A toy the cats will play with, especially encouraged with catnip
5. Blood oranges
6. Associations
7. Patterns
8. Caring friends
9. Shapes
“I dreamt last night, oh marvelous error
That I had a bee hive here inside my heart
And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey
from my old failures.”
– Antonio Machado
1. God
2. A car that starts
3. Getting out of the house to visit
4. Heat pipes, whether they cough or not
5. The country music station on the airwaves and in the memory
6. Sometimes a gift and yet part of it is not mine to give
7. Crowdsourcing
8. Inner guidance
9. A wonderful series of cartoons
10. Blessings from Kristin
1. God
2. Awakenings by Alia
3. Sunlight on tulips
4. Stillness
5. Talking with Cassie about appreciation
6. Varieties of orange
7. Pages
8. Scarves
9. Birds and bird seed
10. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?” MLK
1. God
2. Ally ally out in free
3. (Actually I don’t remember anyone ever saying that when we played hide and seek)
4. nevertheless being found
5. something like Christa describes
6. Hearing it again
7. Echo
8. heroic strokes of the bow
9. and the blade
10 . in waves
Julie wrote one in the same maybe she meant one and the same but maybe the first
1. God
2. “Mothers of America, let your kids go to the movies”
3. Young couples
4. People who are alone and not lonely
5. Andrew, my brother
6. the girl in the cat costume who visited the library yesterday. Don’t know if she was one of our students, quite friendly, or if she was from a rival school and Hank the Hawk, our mascot, came off worse as a result of their meeting
7. Cookies (not the internet kind)
8. Grooving the body
9. The music of Earth, Wind and Fire
10 . Pamela took a cruise, happy for her