My Best Reasons for Joy.

• Oliver is alive despite our terrible birth experience.
• I'm alive.
• My mother and I are close friends.
• My husband is kind, gentle, and patient with me. 
• He also seems genuinely to adore me.
• I got some good step parents.
• I have most of what I want, abstractly and concretely.
• I have a wonderful friend who is sensitive to my needs and challenges and who makes me feel good about myself.
• I have family friends who encourage me and my writing. They treat it as more than a hobby.
• Books! They exist, and I have access to them. 
• Easy access to clean water, especially since lithium makes me so thirsty.
• Easy access to movies ($3 on Amazon)
• A good ten years' worth (or more) of paper and pens.