A collection of mindful, intelligent stories by a group of authors as diverse as their story telling. Some of us are family; we’re all friends. Some of us were at school together in the 1960s, or were house-mates in the 1970s. Some of us only know each other online. Our ages range from the early twenties to the early eighties. Most of us are native English speakers, but Grace’s mother-tongue is Hindi, Lovie’s is Icelandic, Marko’s is Croatian, and Meryem’s is French. We all wrote in English apart from Meryem, whose story Clive translated with her approval. Please enjoy reading as much as we enjoyed writing.