In these dark times when the world is so unsettled and uncertain, we are all struggling to find the good, looking for joy and love and affirmation and finding it in loving even the smallest of living things.

She held my hand as she sat up and I turned to look to see what she was going to do. Sometimes, she simply holds my hand but other times, she reads my palm and tells me my fortune. This time, she gently turned my hand over and said, "I want to see your age spot."