- Tiny dog wiggling in the back window of a car
- Going to the gym for the first time in months
- A cashmere scarf against my neck on a cold day
- 5:00 PM and the sun still high in the sky
- My family — all three of us — in the same place for the first time in years
- A house full of guests
- An empty house, tidied by my mother before she left
- The time to sit in silence with a cup of tea, looking out the window
tended by poet Frances Donovan
Garden of Words 