Tree branches’ twists

Warmth earned ascending hills on foot

Feet

Fierce sunsets

Family silky and sticky as spider webs

Bedrock friends

First grader with nose in books

Sixth grader’s photographs

Yoyo tricks

Teenager’s “Meh”

Teenager’s political engagement

Scrabble

Texts from teen complete with hashtags

Dearest hubs’ bold leaps

An hour to write

Listening

Feeling

Muted clouds

The sky’s visual textures

Crafters

Writers’ groups, mine

The Y

Friends to carpool with, spin with, Zumba with, do good works with

Friends made in unlikely ways

Neighbors like invited family

Youngest friends “Here for a play date”

Humor

Dry erase board

Bowls

Fleece (the not-sheep kind)

Bodywork

Bathtub

Mutsus and Honeycrisps

Barely cool air

Iced tea

Frozen yogurt

My sweet little town

The Good Wife, Parenthood, Lisa Kudrow, Aimee Mann, music from Nashville

New tricks

Hugs

Spring flowers

Hands

Spaces in between

As ever, the list goes on and started way before one Thursday morning and that’s the beauty of life, even with its challenges, struggles and sorrow come joys large and minute—and so I wish you a day that lets you encompass the potential for it all.