{"id":2764,"date":"2012-05-06T08:34:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T15:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2012-05-06T08:34:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T15:34:20","slug":"having-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2012\/05\/06\/having-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Having Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>From an old journal,
\na ballpoint sketch I drew in the air. The caption just says, “Between Buenas Aires and Houston, 5\/28\/09.”
\nIs she content? You decide.<\/h6>\n

Better what the eyes see than the roving of the appetite.*<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contentment is a greatly underrated value, until you don’t have it.<\/p>\n

It sounds so Vanilla<\/em> when Double Chocolate Whipped Rocky Mountain Mousse<\/em> is right there . . . just out of reach.<\/p>\n

Why settle for what you already have when something better is looming in the mirage of your mind?<\/p>\n

Well, for one reason, your eyes look better when focused.
\nYour mouth looks better without the drool.
\nYour conversation is better in the moment.
\nAnd your Attention Deficient Disorder is less obvious.<\/p>\n

Question:<\/strong> How much time is misspent wishing things were different?
\nAnswer:<\/strong> All of it.<\/p>\n

I read an account of a man in prison who chose solitary confinement so he could better focus. Doing time<\/em>, he had plenty of it, and didn’t want to waste a minute. He became a scholar in his chosen field (Egyptology), communicating with researchers on the outside. He’s getting out early for good behavior, well cured of the lifestyle that got him in, and now a man with a future.<\/p>\n

Seeing value in the potential of his present situation was the key to everything.<\/p>\n

The eyes are beautiful things to reveal what’s in front of us. But they also take in a lot of what we don’t have and leave us dry. It may be a hodge podge of mixed metaphor, but the roving appetite is the mother of a sunken rib cage of the mind.<\/p>\n

To have “more” is a pretty human preoccupation. But I’ve often wondered, “Would I be happier?”<\/p>\n

Or wishing for more again?<\/p>\n

Happiness is a present tense state of mind.<\/p>\n

Having all is never enough.
\nBut having enough is all.<\/p>\n

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______________________<\/p>\n

*Ecclesiastes 6:9<\/p>\n

PS My sister Sue’s blog today features a pictorial tribute to my parents’ 70th anniversary. She was fourth of five, myself eldest. Take a look\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Next: The e-gallery<\/em>. Coming Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The roving eye, instigator of wasted time. Ecclesiastes, a book on life’s vanity, would have something to say about it. Here are a few thoughts, plus a PS tribute to my parents’ 70th anniversary today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3259,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions\/3259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}