{"id":12399,"date":"2023-02-16T11:45:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T18:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=12399"},"modified":"2023-09-16T16:01:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T23:01:22","slug":"wants-in-a-world-of-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wants-in-a-world-of-plenty\/","title":{"rendered":"Wants In a World of Plenty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Memorable writing that sparks imagination. Lean in. Hear the writer\u2019s voice on the page.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wants In a World of Plenty<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By DSBriggs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just want to\u2026<\/p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laugh aloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay Alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep mobile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep learning to let go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep loving.<\/p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just want to\u2026<\/p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shout at the Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shout at prejudice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shout at stupidity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shout at injustice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shout at the mess.<\/p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just want to\u2026<\/p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

See Children playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hear laughing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taste warm bread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smell fresh rain in the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Touch my dog\u2019s velvety ears.<\/p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just want to \u2026<\/p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accept the pain that comes with death of loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accept that I do the best I know how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accept help graciously as I age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accept that my way is only one<\/strong> way of many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accept forgiveness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accept that some things are unforgivable.<\/p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just want to:<\/p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continue to write,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and be a committed listener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appreciate where I have been,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and accept that this is where I am now.<\/p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay! Okay! <\/p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also want to\u2026<\/p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conquer dust and dog hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finish some projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sort my mountains of paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laugh daily at something funny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irony is okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DSBriggs <\/strong>is a retired educator. She has lived in Northern California most of her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She still loves to write and has been honored to be published in The Write Spot Collections: \u201cThe Write Spot to Jumpstart Your Writing: Discoveries,\u201d The Write Spot: Possibilities,\u201d and \u201cThe Write Spot: Writing as a Path to Healing. Available in print and as ereaders at Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mostly she likes to write about her dog and life in the past century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donna has recently added to her want list: more travel and a pen that doesn\u2019t skip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Memorable writing that sparks imagination. Lean in. Hear the writer\u2019s voice on the page. Wants In a World of Plenty By DSBriggs I just want to\u2026   Laugh aloud. Stay Alive. Keep learning. Keep mobile. Keep learning to let go. Keep loving.   I just want to\u2026   Shout at the Government. Shout at prejudice. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1474],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sparks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-3dZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12400,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399\/revisions\/12400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}