What was on the wall that day.
A wood floor under bare feet in summer.
My partner makes me eggs without the runny part. He hates the runny part. He makes them perfect.
Grateful for the dentist who told me my mother brushed my teeth for me when I was little. He could tell. The enamel.
My partner reads my work before anyone. He always finds the line I love.
A blanket on the couch within reach.
My partner's hand in mine in a movie theater.
My wife knows my coffee order at every diner in every city we've visited.
A cup of cocoa in mittened hands.
My dad calls me on Sundays. Just to say hi. He always says hi twice.
My neighbor brought our trash bins up to the porch when he saw they'd been there for two days.
Grateful for the cab driver in Chicago in '99 who took the long way through the lake because I was visiting. I remember it perfectly.
My great-aunt was a nurse for fifty years. She told me stories of kindness from her patients. Not the other way around.