1. Goddess
2. Visiting my mother and finding her in good spirits
3. Hannah and Joel for driving David and me
4. Helping my mother retrieve clothing she needed from her home and recycle food.
5. Waking up with a phone call from Andrew.
6. Happy Birthday to Crystal, who founded this site.
1. Goddess
2. City bus arriving just as I was waiting
3. My mother’s resilience
4.Phone call from Leslie
5. Gratitude circle
6. Message from Katherine – she has the perfect touch
1. Goddess
2. Successful field trip organized by my mother. Beforehand, she said, “All the noses were counted, and all the noses said they would go.”
3. Amareen. Seeing her again.
4. Gratitude turns what we have into a miracle.
5. The sofa
1. Goddess
2. Foliage
3.The return of spring
1. Goddess
2. Balance
1. Goddess
2. Cardinal sighting at the pond.
3. Branches fell down in the driveway in front of the car. After a brief tantrum, I was able to pull myself and the debfis together and clean up.
4. My mother is settling well into her new apartment and meeting new neighbors.
5. Hearing from Julie P.
6. Cassie sending me a video of Ladt Gaga and Tony Bennett singining “I Get a Kick Out of You.”
7. Flowers from GG.
1. Goddess
2. Breakfast at the diner, and the wonderful service I receive there.
3. A meditation gathering.
4. Lunch with my girlfriends.
5. The movie theatre.
6. My children, Hannah, David, and Emily.
7. A chocolate malted frappe at the ice cream store on a hot and humid day.
8. Phone call from Ashley. She got a job!
9. Phone call with Eileen and reading together.
10. Phone call with Julie.
11. Phone call with Lisa.
12. Face Time with my mother.
1. Goddess
2. Sleep
3. Walk with Divya
4a. The post office
4b. Music on phone playing on ride home
5. Text from Cassie
6. Text from Leslie
7. Phone call with my mother
8. Music recommendations from Roxani
9. Pictures from Brian of the house he’s working on in Steubenville, Ohio
1. Goddess
2. Hot coffee on a rainy day
3. Patient group leaders
4. Downpours stopped just as I was getting out of group.
5. a helpful copy shop.
6. Bumping into Kendra at the market, and Mary waving at me as she drove past in the parking lot.
7. A salmon filet
8. A grateful place
1. Goddess
2. Walk through the Arboretum at dawn. Seeing the rosaceous gateway.
3. Yucca plant
4. Red orange gladiolous
5. A kind and skilled phlebotomist named Z.
6. Working with Divya, my favorite counselor.
7. Sitting in the sun, but not as intense nor humid as yesterday.
8. A kind doctor who had a few questions and is a Red Sox fan.
9. Hosta
10. Dark yellow lilies
11. A library with big comfortable chairs
12. Reading Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret, and having a good cry.
13. Reading some more until closing of the library was announced.
14. Calling my mother standing in the shade.
15. City blocks longer than the imagination.
15a. Window and store shopping.
16. Indian food for dinner and trying the specials and enjoying them.
17. Meeting the girls before the meeting, sitting inside and outside the cafe.
18. Amends stories
19. Safe travels to and fro.
20. Brown bear waiting on the sofa for me.
21. CD ready for me to play; it is “The Joni Letters” by Herbie Hancock.
22. Night calling me.