In the coldest months of the year, we look to the spring for hope. My eagerness for spring manifests in The List. Each year I am giddy to write The List on a small scrap of paper, the back of a receipt, a post it. To make a plan.

I awaken to the buzzing vibration of my cell phone on the bedside table. Without opening my eyes, I swat at the alarm. After a moment of deep breathing, I prop myself up, switch on the small light next to the bed, and, swinging my legs from under the covers, retrieve my morning journal and favorite pen from their place just out of reach if I’m still lying down. Armed with my writing tools, my slippered feet pad down the hall — silent. An awakened child would halt this morning ritual in its tracks. The necessary smell of coffee drifts throughout the house — the automatic coffee maker is worth more than its weight in gold. Full coffee cup now in hand, my writing tools and I retreat to the cozy desk I have laid claim to in my conquered corner of the living room. Sunbeams are beginning to illuminate the sacred blank pages that I have at my fingertips each day.

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