She Hopes for Five Things

  1. To be safe and to have her family safe.
  2. To tie up and fold and categorize and otherwise organize the ideas floating around in her head that, when she ponders or at least manages pluck a single for inspection it does not dissolve like a snowflake in her hand.
  3. For a door. Not one that locks up and keeps her and her family safe, but one that opens to a new, rommier, well-decorated space.
  4. A child who loves her and who at least wants to be behave but can’t beause they have their own swirling ideas and pluckings to do.
  5. Love for humanity. A big word–no, Two Big Words: Love. Humanity.

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