{"id":5206,"date":"2012-12-07T02:03:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T10:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=5206"},"modified":"2012-12-07T13:39:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T21:39:33","slug":"the-two-lists-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2012\/12\/07\/the-two-lists-in-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Lists in One"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Mug-Baja-Back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5214\" title=\"Mug-Baja-Back\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Mug-Baja-Back.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><em>Painting? Thinking? Moving on . . .<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>Yesterday I said that\u00a0the list of things that I want and the list of things I have are the same list.\u00a0Here&#8217;s the list, at least in partial:<\/p>\n<p>A wife and companion whom I love and who loves me&#8230;<br \/>\nFriends&#8230;<br \/>\nFamily&#8230;<br \/>\nHealth&#8230;<br \/>\nRelationship with God&#8230;<br \/>\nPeace with self&#8230;<br \/>\nA house and grounds\u2014for shelter, comfort, hospitality, entertainment, and self-expression&#8230;<br \/>\nAn occupation that I enjoy\u2014that satisfies me, fills my hours, and offers continual challenge for growth&#8230;<br \/>\nA means for ongoing income, and even occasional \u201cjumps\u201d in income&#8230;<br \/>\nA regular opportunity for teaching, occasional lecturing, pulpit speaking, etc&#8230;.<br \/>\nOccasional mentoring&#8230;<br \/>\nAn avenue for writing, expressing ideas, developing that craft\u2014and getting feedback (thank you)&#8230;<br \/>\nAccess to the whole world&#8217;s library for my reading, intellectual growth, curiosity&#8230;<br \/>\nA small community of friends with whom to meet regularly, enjoyably, and meaningfully&#8230;<br \/>\nOne best friend with whom to share all thoughts, always accepted, regularly, weekly, year after year&#8230;<br \/>\nA great son, great daughters, great spouses of each, and many grandchildren&#8230;<br \/>\nFreedom\u2014by virtue of living in America, California in particular, and southern California especially&#8230;<br \/>\nLife in surroundings with pleasant weather and beauty\u2014with hills, trees, and ocean all at hand&#8230;<br \/>\nA garden&#8230;<br \/>\nA studio\u2014with all equipment, and for Anne, same, and shared&#8230;<br \/>\nFreedom of schedule\u2014to wake and make my own decisions what I would do that day&#8230;<br \/>\nA church\u2014for nurture, contribution, and wider society of more-or-less like-minded people&#8230;<br \/>\nTwo great cars, paid for, and good roads&#8230;<br \/>\nFreedom, time, and wherewithal to travel to any destination that appeals to the two of us&#8230;<br \/>\nA life-style of trips to interesting places to stay in for awhile, get to know, and make art&#8230;<br \/>\nAn ongoing purpose to provide any aid within family, for parents and children, when appropriate and as necessary&#8230;<br \/>\nSame with friends&#8230;<br \/>\nMusic\u2014any kind accessible any time&#8230;<br \/>\nInformation\u2014also all accessible (what with Internet)&#8230;<br \/>\nA busy life, which as I&#8217;ve said, is a gift&#8230;<br \/>\nOur possessions, which we enjoy and which in part describe us, but do not hold us and are not our meaning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To summarize, there&#8217;s nothing I can think of that I want that is beyond my having.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want that much.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m rediscovering Jesus and the immensely deepenable life that is available through mediation on his.<br \/>\nAll this seems plenty enough for now and the years to come.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m grateful.<\/p>\n<p>(And that&#8217;s another thing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking precedent, here&#8217;s a blog post only a day following the last. But thought you&#8217;d enjoy yesterday&#8217;s alluded-to list. Maybe it&#8217;ll stimulate your own.<\/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\/5206"}],"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=5206"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5234,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions\/5234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}