Soon the notebook had drawings of three different birds and a list of names for them.

I did not know when she had started looking forward to tomorrow again.

I was simply grateful to notice it.

It had two bedrooms, a simple kitchen, and a small fenced yard.

The first weekend after moving in, I opened a wooden toolbox I had kept since my father’s passing.

PART 15

The tree was not a grand monument.

It was a young redbud from a local nursery, small enough to fit in the back of my car.