What Heals?, 21

1. observing nature at work, perhaps blossom in the northern hemisphere
2. strolling a quiet museum early one weekday
3. talking one-to-one, hand-in-hand
4. taking a decision, long delayed
5. hugs
6. a great movie seen again
7. writing
8. helping someone
9. baking bread
10. a plan
11. ironing a long abandoned stack of shirts and realising it wasn’t so bad
12. switching off all screens for a while
13. a really good, dedicated cheese shop
14. changing scale and reminding oneself of the grandeur of it all
15. polishing shoes
16. lego played with an industrious toddler
17. any Beatles track
18. sharpened pencil on paper
19. hot water and grated ginger, sipped
20. making lasagne, carefully and authentically layered
21. stacking wood for the wood-burner