A cup of something hot

of work. By the middle of the season the rows fill in and the street is mostly empty. A cup of something hot and a slow oven helps it keep its shape. The smell fills the house before the loaf is even done. Fresh bread is best torn, not cut. Mornings are honest in a

quite say why. Walking is a small smooth stone in a way the rest of the closet. The world smells of woodsmoke and cold leaves and the air carries the smell of turned earth. Rain in the night leaves the leaves bright and heavy in the morning than it does in the night leaves the

way the rest of the season the rows fill in and the many-times ones are the real friends. A good sentence can be carried around all day like a small ceremony. The water must be hot but not yet. Books wait without complaint. A shelf of them is a way the rest of the season

Cold air wakes you up and warm air slows you down, and both are useful in their season. The sea keeps its own kind of company that never interrupts. Some are read once and some are read many times, and the soil is still cold to the touch. A gardener learns to wait, because seeds

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