What was most enormous about this trip was love.

Even with all of the barriers I've welded in place.

Across the country, wherever I landed: sons, very dear friends, teachers and their families, co-students, the wife of my former husband, people on buses and behind counters, people far away who popped up now and again via internet, a wise and funny aunt.

It is possible, even in the more difficult situations or in places you might least expect, to find love. To see it radiating from faces like the sun.

You might miss it if too preoccupied with the clutter in your mind and life, the preconceptions and old histories and new ideas.

I studied many faces.

The sun's light is rising through the curtains. Time to get moving.

Tonight, don't forget, the Perseid shower!