May love and peace nurture every fiber and soothe every loss, whether death or change: a child’s first day of kindergarten or exit to college, an older adult saying farewell to one too many friends, the lingering touch of a lost lover, a career, a disease, a flag at half mast, a move across county, a loved one’s passing, a sad childhood, daddy’s hands across mama’s empty belly. So much loss, yet somewhere the valley meets the mountaintop and seeds of hope grow, birthing flowers with smiles wide open like dimpled hydrangeas cheering, “Yes, there you are!”