Writing during Lent, I will write forty words a day, but these are not Lent words, but may be writing “redemptively”

Today I am grateful for:

• nearly twenty crows in a leafless maple
• blue sky, sunshine and cirrus clouds (mares’ tails)
• an old brown dog
• friends in Malawi
• children learning to read and write
• spring flowers and bees

and to God, the maker – his handiwork is anywhere I look, if I take the time to see