Fill a bottle with soil and seal the end, drop it from the bow of a ship, with a kind goodbye and a soft wink.

Take a feather from a duck, console her for her pain and thank her for her trouble with a bag of crusts. Leave the feather on a train track.

Make a circle with chalk on the floor of a bank.

Be nice to somebody new.

Give the world a second chance.

Be brave.

Climb a tree.

Sleep in.

Climb a tree.

Sleep in.

Climb in.

Sleep a tree.

Be nice to the ducks.

Climb.

Sleep.

(Daily advice imparted from my father’s hospital bed.)