Abstractions:

• Early morning Economics
• Wilco
• 'A Long and Happy Life'
• Conversation over coffee and pastries
• Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring
• "Good girl"
• Awkward waves good-bye
• Shabu-shabu fiesta
• A first birthday for a 54 year-old man
• An 'I love you'
  • Said in jest, but in earnest