On this day of days to remember what’s worth living for and what’s precious to protect, I offer you three beautiful things from the past week:

1. When I stop at the garden on Sunday to pick cherry and pear tomatoes and some of the last beans of the season, neighbors are also harvesting. As I string the tomato tree back up off the ground, the guy wanders over, holding out a baby eggplant. He apologizes for its small size as he offers it to me, but I gratefully accept.

2. The day after the remnants of Hanna wander through the area dawns clear and blue. You could eat off that sky.

3. Della lies on my lap with her head on my knee. Periodically she reaches out to add a few spaces or periods to my post.

What’s beautiful in your life?