{"id":1058,"date":"2023-07-25T15:34:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T16:37:00","slug":"a-thousand-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"A Thousand Wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wishes-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wishes-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wishes-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wishes-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">When I was a child, I loved to explore in the fields behind my house.&nbsp; During those childhood days, my friends and I would run freely through the countryside, building forts, and playing games in the trees and the long grass.&nbsp; In the summertime, these fields would be filled with countless numbers of bright yellow dandelions.&nbsp; I have a vivid memory of sunny summer days in which I would kneel down in the grass and carefully pick the most beautiful of dandelion flowers to create a flower chain that I could wear in my hair.&nbsp; In my childhood innocence, when I looked at those fields, I never thought of these flowers as weeds.&nbsp; Instead, I saw a magical place where every blossom represented a thousand wishes just waiting to be blown into the wind and whispered to the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background\">\n<strong>A Thousand Wishes<\/strong>\nBy Krista Longeway\n\nI have a dearly cherished childhood memory \nOf a field with dandelions all around me, \nTheir sunny yellow faces nodding in the breeze\nThe summer grasses grown up nearly to my knees\nI remember kneeling in the grassy bowers\nWhere I began to pick the sweet yellow flowers\nBraiding them carefully into flower chains there\nTo wear like a crown in my loosely blowing hair\nThose were the carefree, near forgotten childhood days \nWhen the whole word was magical in many ways\nAnd a field of wild weeds made me just as happy\nAs a field of beautiful flowers could make me\nWhere every seed was a thousand wishes that fly\nJust waiting to be whispered to the deep blue sky\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child, I loved to explore in the fields behind my house.&nbsp; During those childhood days, my friends and I would run freely through the countryside, building forts, and playing games in the trees and the long grass.&nbsp; In the summertime, these fields would be filled with countless numbers of bright yellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1,6,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hope","category-uncategorized","category-quiet-reflection","category-summer","category-the-garden"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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