1. God

2. Beverlee – what a difference she has made, and helping me acknowledge how far I’ve come, by willing to accept help

3. Grateful people

4. Christa’s amazing and enticing new site

5. I always enjoy talking to Charles on the phone, his warmth and laughter and rich southern accent

6. Compassion

7. Feeling sad about changing plans with David and telling him I needed to because of another obligation. OK dad, he said, but I hope it doesn’t turn out to be a Cat’s in the Cradle type of thing.  Evidently he’s discovered Harry Chapin.

8. Fall colors and clouds

9. Story within a story

10. Neither

1. God

2. Autumn colors

3. Sun and clouds

4. People working for a common purpose

5. The apple tree I hadn’t noticed before, full of fruit, probably crab apples

6. how things look differently after a day

7. dinner with friends

8. Stamps

9. Thanks and praise

10. Something that brought me back and something moving me forward

1. God

2. Crystal’s delight

3. Cider dougnuts

4. Youth of America

5. Sunny days

6. Starry nights

7. Notes

8. Focus

9. Relief

10. The sheer sheen of grace on everything (right, Helen :) )

1. God

2. Help from Dolores, who enjoys her new job

3. And also from Bill

4. Sun and fog

5. With Jeanette, it is no sooner than done

6. Working on a solution with Eric

7. Prayer and patience

8. Lighting up from within

9. Enough

1. God

2. A wonderful print I bought from Julia on her site, “You are always loved,” with a beautiful multicolored bird, so many combinations, some of which remind me of stained glass and then there’s a tree, sparingly drawn, like out of an Asian painting of old, the contrast saying to me all is one.

3. Catching up

4. Not catching up

5. giving it away

6. Unheard melodies

7. Epic similes

8. Bird feeder

9. Last fruits and flowers of the summer

10. Time with Hannah and David

1. God

2. When I met Cassie, one of the first things she wrote to me was “I love love love to plan vacations!”

3. Miracle of flight

4. Equatorial clime, light and breezes

5. A tiny island

6. Beaches

7. The water is that green

8. Give my love to Rose (our island tour guide)

9. Pam and her sailing tour boat

10. Snorkeling and seeing colorful fish and weeds and rocks

11. The dignified iguana, battle-dressed, greeting the sun and eating sea grape leaves

12. The islanders who answered our questions

13. Cassie’s delight at seeing sea turtles

14. Jenn and Kyelle for looking after the pussy cats while we were away

1. God

2. Cassie’s quick successful business trip from which she returned early

3. David enthusiastic about a possible road trip

4. Splashes of autumn color

5. Fixing a problem by trying what I didn’t before

6. Making decisions

7. Willingness in others

8. The ghost on Jenn’s door

9. And on Cheryl’s steps, a pumpkin on each, presumably for each member of the family

10. Surprises each day – overtaken in a good way

1. God

2. Feeling relaxed in a new setting

3. Hannah’s roommates taking care of her when she’s sick

4. Talking with David

5. Emily busy with so many things

6. A note from Cassie in my bed stand

7. Discoveries and rediscoveries

8. What I thought was a problem isn’t

9. Clean floors and a made up bed

10. “The day gives up it’s meaning slowly” Katrina Kenison in this blog post

1. God

2. The wedding dance

3. The couple’s happiness

4. And that of the parents

5. A boat ride on the pond

6. The young women who helped us in and out of the boats

7. Everything old is new again

8. Carrot cake for Cassie

9. “I will never grow so old again”

10. More than enough

1. God

2. A huge compliment from  Crystal

3. A grateful message from John

4. this is great, A Year of Saying Thank You by Eli

5. Flowers that remain

6. Lovely fall days

7. An invitation

8. Electricity

9. Distance

10. The Peterkin Papers

especially this story