- The new leaves of spring
- The last leaves of fall
- Television commercials (despite knowing they are designed to cause tears)
- Chopping onions
- Birth
- Death
- Everything in between
- Laughter
- Kindness
- Pain
- Exhaustion
- A single special moment that will never be repeated
- Remembering
- The anguish of shouting into an abyss
- The relief when it answers back eventually
- Injustice
- Those little disappointments that come when dreams aren't realized
- Those little disappointments that come when dreams are realized
- Knowing we're all alone
- Knowing we're not alone
- Watching two birds fly overhead
- Reading words that someone else has written that say what you couldn't say
- Writing lists like this
why we cry
in writing