What is fruitful?
Lying
Being honest
Confessing love,
If you don’t mind a bruised heart
Staying in the shadows on a hot day
My fruit bowl, red with a pedestal
My mouth, during peach season
Opening the windows when it is cool out
Writing thank you notes
Writing your grandmother
Laughing with people you care for
Smelling the back of a baby’s neck
Trimming the tops off of a bowl of strawberries
Carefully putting old photos into a box
Visiting a friend who is sick
Petting a stranger’s dog
Eating outside, preferably with wine
Dancing
Slicing bread
Noticing the rhythm of your neighborhood
Christmas dinner
Standing in a conifer forest
Periodic solitude and silence
Enjoying the same song with 500 people
Walking
Putting honey on toast
Hearing a friend’s stories for the second time
Sleeping, just long enough