{"id":12851,"date":"2023-10-11T11:35:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T18:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=12851"},"modified":"2023-10-11T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T18:36:04","slug":"the-thing-about-grief-prompt-754","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/the-thing-about-grief-prompt-754\/","title":{"rendered":"The thing about grief . . . Prompt #754"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Inspired by an email from Susan Bono: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was at Dollar Tree the other day and didn\u2019t have quite enough cash to cover my Halloween garlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I fumbled with my card, the cashier said, \u201cI never carry cash anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I said, \u201cI don\u2019t either, but I miss it sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She looked at me full in the face and said, \u201cThere are things I miss every single day about the way things used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw such grief in her face before she smiled and urged me to have a nice day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prompt: Write whatever comes up for you . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shopping at the Dollar Tree store<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Halloween<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cash vs credit card<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I miss . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The way things used to be . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing about grief is . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan Bono<\/a> is the author of “What Have We Here: Essays about Keeping House and Finding Home<\/a>.” Available on Amazon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The world is full of stories. Mine collect in journals, spill onto postcards and scraps of paper, come to conclusions in computer files, call to me in dreams. I write what I believe is true about my experiences, not just events that happened to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not sure what\u2019s more important: the raw aliveness of a dashed-off journal entry or the carefully developed and edited essay, finally (one hopes) complete.\u00a0 I only know that every story is a shard of mirror that shows me pieces of who I am and what it means to be human.” \u2014Susan Bono<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inspired by an email from Susan Bono: I was at Dollar Tree the other day and didn\u2019t have quite enough cash to cover my Halloween garlands. As I fumbled with my card, the cashier said, \u201cI never carry cash anymore.\u201d I said, \u201cI don\u2019t either, but I miss it sometimes.\u201d She looked at me full […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[4],"tags":[1935,113,106,578,1190],"class_list":["post-12851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-grief","tag-personal-essay","tag-susan-bono","tag-what-have-we-here","tag-writing-freely-just-write-writing-prompts-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-3lh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12851","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=12851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12854,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12851\/revisions\/12854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}