Every so often I get filled up with happiness and it’s gotta go somewhere.\u00a0 I try to make it tangible, to articulate this joy because I love to think in words.\u00a0 So I make these lists I call “Keys to the Universe,” of things that make me happy, whether mundane or poetic.\u00a0 Things or activities or dynamics that are no-fail, from the superficial to the significant.<\/p>\n
I think we should all create these lists every now and then, just as reminders that there are good and great things in our lives.<\/p>\n
1) A hard bike ride that turns out to be easy.<\/p>\n
2) Alleve muscle relaxant.<\/p>\n
3) Paul Simon’s song Graceland<\/em>.<\/p>\n 4) Turning the corner on Clovelly Road.<\/p>\n 5) A “yes” from the Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n 6) The three sons I’ve created in my novel, Dirt<\/em>:\u00a0 A Story of Gardening, Autism, and Other Messy Business<\/em>.<\/p>\n 7) Ned’s face.<\/p>\n 8) My new bike shoes.<\/p>\n 9) Boca burgers, the flame-grilled ones.<\/p>\n 10) Hot shower<\/p>\n 11) Great nap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every so often I get filled up with happiness and it’s gotta go somewhere.\u00a0 I try to make it tangible, to articulate this joy because I love to think in words.\u00a0 So I make these lists I call “Keys to the Universe,” of things that make me happy, whether mundane or poetic.\u00a0 Things or activities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-wy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}