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I was thinking today of the things I got done, chores mostly, and feeling some relief that I am a useful human being. Bought groceries, paid some bills, filed medical for reimbursements, did laundry. Whew, I have justified my existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well that is just a stupid waste of brain, to have to justify your existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So instead, I thought about what I’m grateful for in my life. No justification or explanation or rationale necessary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strong marriage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

House<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Healthy sons<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extended Family<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guitar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My guitar pedal (Screamer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jerry Garcia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Hunter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob Weir<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Perry Barlow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob Dylan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bike<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing ability<\/p>\n\n\n\n

21st Century science and medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nat’s group home\/service provider TILL<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles River Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BILT, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Max’s happiness and independence<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ben’s happiness and independence<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nat’s happiness and recent independence from me– hurts so much but is great<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cake <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belly dance always and eternally<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certain friends scattered here and there <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Survival shows<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good comedians<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Favorite books<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was thinking today of the things I got done, chores mostly, and feeling some relief that I am a useful human being. Bought groceries, paid some bills, filed medical for reimbursements, did laundry. Whew, I have justified my existence. Well that is just a stupid waste of brain, to have to justify your existence. […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5936","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-1xK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936","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=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5950,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions\/5950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}