For the first time in ages I haven\u2019t shopped in stationery stores or drug stores for school supplies. I have enough to last me, and I won\u2019t purchase more. This \u201ccame home\u201d to me yesterday when I was at a Dollar Tree store, when in the past I would buy school supplies. No longer: I have enough!<\/p>\n
I have enough?? What kind of statement is that?? I do have enough, though—it\u2019s true! I have enough to last me. I have a beautiful, wonderful wife. I am fulfilled. I have a wonderful set of kids I figure that if I aim higher then the \u201ccosts\u201d of getting begin to exceed the costs of having. Luxury enough beats out too much luxury. I didn\u2019t think this before, though. Maybe I\u2019m growing smarter as I grow older. (There\u2019s a saying in German that we grow \u201ctoo soon old and too late smart\u201d—but I seem to have gotten off that the crucial moment.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the first time in ages I haven\u2019t shopped in stationery stores or drug stores for school supplies. I have enough to last me, and I won\u2019t purchase more. This \u201ccame home\u201d to me yesterday when I was at a Dollar Tree store, when in the past I would buy school supplies. No longer: I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20,15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-follies","category-favoritethings","category-whassup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2964,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}