Contentment.

my breakfast and the Word.
oatmeal with peaches, Daniel.

hopeful orange, yellow flowers
on a windy, gray day.

resting under seas of blankets.
a heavy, warm cocoon.

my aunt and i sitting in the small kitchen.
like mother to daughter.

"We should all do what, in the long run,
gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes
or sorting the laundry."
-E.B. White