A sphere of selenite Seeing Saturn through a telescope Getting married

A glorious fireworks display Fireflies blinking in summer A boogie-woogie band from the sixties

A gray dawn in summer Walking a labyrinth that is not yet there The smell of wild roses

Whirling as a dervish whirls Imagining roses everywhere Remembering Elizabeth Enright’s The Saturdays

Fresh milk from the farm Bright orange salamanders on the dark, muddy way High summer

Papaya The smile of a stranger Reading about ancient history

Santorini The heat of summer Meeting a stranger from Brazil at a barbeque

Requited love Castles in England The silk route

Baby birds in the nest Baklava A whole day spent alone

The sound of crows in the early morning Sipping ouzo in the shade at a Greek restaurant on a hot summer afternoon A wedding ceremony in June

Remembering being in the desert The moss garden in Kyoto A crazy-loud thunderstorm

Dreaming of a mysterious “Travel Garden” Meditation Music from Iran

The heat of a summer afternoon in an almost-deserted town The cool of the river The long days and short, hot nights

Old pine trees Waking up at dawn and going to the beach The early leaves on the catalpa tree against the silver evening sky

Finishing a really good novel Swimming at Swift’s Beach Nieces and nephews

Getting rid of clutter Driving to Cape Cod Playing tag in the evening as children

Happy childhood memories Buttercups, buttercups, buttercups everywhere The noon prayer

The sound of rain on my window at dawn Being cozy and warm Knowing you’re planting seeds for the future that are good

Georgette Heyer’s novels Spiders and all they represent and all they do Dreaming about someone who has died

Buttercup Days by Ethel Cook Eliot Good news Waking up feeling extraordinarily peaceful

The wine-dark sea The fragrance of lily-of-the-valley Persian lilac essential oil

A walk in the spring rain The long twilight in late spring The island of Delos