1. The healing power of the right stone, gifted to me by dear friends, at just the right times in my life. 2. To really listen to my body. Not just to what it can do in order to push it, but more importantly, to what it can't do. There is empowerment in saying this is as far as I go, in setting my limits, in protecting what only I can know in my bones. 3. From Alexander Chee, during his keynote at the Writers League of Texas conference: "The things that matter are the things