At the end of a busy week

And here is what I am thinking about after running around all week, balancing personal and professional responsibilities, and now preparing for a lovely weekend of dinners outside, a soccer game, the annual Buddy Walk, hippotherapy, and spending the last warm weekend of the fall with my family.

"And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth."

-Raymond Carver