1. Fresh eggs, glazed lemon zucchini bread, lemonade, sweet potato and black bean quesadillas, fresh pineapple, apples and peanut butter.

2. New computer glasses, so I don’t have to lean in towards the screen and make my forearms ache.

3. Signs of spring: bird song in the early still dark of morning, the deep yellow of forsythia and daffodil and dandelions, green grass.

4. Practice: writing, meditation, yoga, and dog.

5. Ringo Blue and sweet Sam. They played and played in the backyard yesterday.

Bonus Joy: Roses from Eric, my fifth year of a Superior ranking on my annual evaluation at CSU, a boss who loves working with me and says so, my 21st year in a row of a Superior ranking as a wife, a guest post on courage and self, knowing when it’s time to stop working and rest, ease and peace around food and movement, knowing what isn’t working and being able to let it go, lunch with friends, that Eric was able to pop his dislocated fingertip back in himself before I even knew it had happened, lunch with good friends, the good chocolate, jellyfish and chickens.