The Nice Thing About Strangers
Creative Non-Fiction Short Stories. :) Travel, Oldsters, Love, and Compassion.
Pretty Much Every Love Story
She wanted things to be somehow as they had been, or as they had never quite been but might have been, or might be if only things were different which could not be different. -Iris Murdoch. Nuns and Soliders
(Also, well wishes to the firefighters and folks facing the High Park Fire, Colorado.)
The Nice Thing About Strangers 
What a GREAT quote!!! (probably because I’ve said it in similar words, a million times)