1. The space that allows my fingers to walk and wander and thoughts to be freed

2. The furry softness of morning puppy

3. Losing my cell phone and spending the day simply in time, not on time

4. Night runs in pre-autumnal bursts of wind

5. Cold, morning oranges you can unlock with your fingers in long peels of color

6. Honey at the bottom of a teacup, ready to overwhelm you with that last sip of grace

7. Letting go and practicing the breath, from the tips of teeth to the toes

8. Ginger and its ability to go with anything I desire to eat

9. Sand in toe crevices

10. Long drives and car phone charger and voices at the other end

11. A mother’s small voice to their childs ear

12. Winding roads that lead to bonfires

13. Harmonizing notes in holy woods

14. Sisterly voices and silences and shared heart cracks

15. Morning eyes squinting to light

16. Yoga to the Beatles beats

17. Broken heart spaces leading to lightness

18. Fall’s hiding place and the joy in the finding

19. Moccasins on pavement

20. Full-throated music coming out of open fingers

21. Salt tears that bring sunrise understanding

22. Moments for cleaning house

23. A roommate that shows you true colors

24. Terra cotta

25. Handmade cards of crayon

26. Guided pilates open chest heart full stretches that bring explosion

28. A room of friends, and prayer, and good food and an sink empty of dishes and full of grace

29. Metaphor upon upon metaphor and the other telling you the truth of your own words through theirs

30. Midnight gardens and bullfrogs singing

31. Pulling weeds in early summer hours

32. Beautiful weed bouquets in tiny hands

33. Family stories in an Irish pub

34. Beach wind and carried voices and a father’s smile

35. To hear and hold and let go

36. Dried flowers that have traveled in a plane and lived to tell the tale.

37. To love and be told it is enough

38. Anger that has passed into acceptance and understanding

39. Long, hard rain that resuscitates growth

40. A good hard knock to the pride

41. Sisters large sweater

42. That laugh

43. Still hoping, still holding on

44. The music melody of Tyler Lyle and break up albums

45. A playlist, all of them

46. Cranberry juice at Dakota Blue

47. That hair grows back

48. Holes in trees and treasures you find there

49. A gifted waffle maker

50. A single tear

51. Dancing when nobody is watching

52. Child’s pose

53. Dark mexican restaurants conversations and bland guacamole

54. Chai latte. Anytime. 

55. The first crisp air and the way it catches your breath

56. Naming things

66. Mary Chapin Carpenter and a beautiful racket

67. The feel of a new bike and the first ride rush

68. That circle of park and its many conversations

69. A few months. I can say that.

70. Marking off that one thing I’ve been needing to

71. Forgetting and it’s okay

72. The way carpet looks after it’s vacuumed

73. That a light can have three levels of brightness

74. The drops that slide down the window pain 

75. Second chance coffee shops

76. That I keep returning with new colors

77. Waking up

78. A cup of coffee is still healing

79. The ache in my ankles after a long run

80. Sharing whispers in darkness

81. Admitting loneliness and relishing it

82. Chili much needed 

83. Wooden blinds

84. That baby’s smile when you dance

85. Sleeping on the train

86. Paint. Fingerpaint.