10:24am in the Library.

My head is bowed over books and Your word and Hebrew vocabulary and this wearisome computer screen. I put in my headphones to block out even the smallest library sounds; I select my Johann Sebastian Bach playlist and ease back in my chair as the piano hushes my heart and soothes my ears.

I lift my head. 

Austin is sitting beside me with Tolkien in hand.

Outside the window the leaves are churning with autumn.

And I realize how very happy I am.