a small desk facing south as the sun rises and meters across the sky out the edge of the window top warming the top of my head and allowing in just for the hour or so it is there in that frame my mind to alight this Sunday morning to the possibility that despite anything regardless of anything anything at all my life here now since and now and forward is

brightness.

There is always a place remembered above the rest because the external and internal conditions were such that they most nearly always produced happiness. Willa Cather