1. Buttercups that light up the underneath of your chin, as if you’ve swallowed a firefly.   2. Wildflowers found on rainy afternoon walks.   3. A peppermint stick in your coffee in the fall.   4. The watery smell of the garden hose on an April day.   5. The deep smell of fresh honeysuckle carried on the warm summer wind.   6. The slow feeling of decomposing as the ocean takes the sand from underneath you, burying you deeper into the earth.   7. Kissing your loved one in the

1. Making breakfast to the gentle touch of piano music, and dinner to the crackling lull of a jazz record. 2. Counting my blessings in the mornings as I swing on my back porch and gaze at the trees with a steaming coffee cup in hand. 3. Smelling my baby’s soft hair and kissing her plump cheeks as I walk slowly from room to room. 4. The pleasing, fermented smell and warm supple feel of sourdough in my hands as I give the flour and water its first mix in the quiet of the mornin