Happy Remarks

What was on the wall that day.

My mother sang to all her grandchildren the same lullaby she sang to me.

The summer my brother and I biked to the convenience store every afternoon for orange popsicles. We never told our mother.

I'm grateful my body finally accepted the new medication. I have a chance now.

Holding a baby who's just fallen asleep.

The exact taste of the cherry slushies at the snack bar of the public pool.

My dad and I built a treehouse when I was eight. I tore it down with my own son this summer.

My grandfather wrote my grandmother love notes every morning. We found them in a tin.

My father had a record collection. He cleaned every record before playing it. The ritual taught me something I'm still learning.

A flock of starlings turning together over the field.

First fire of the season. The house smells like a hundred good winters at once.

Putting the bird feeder back full.

The kitchen smelling like soup.

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