https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:28:00 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/kerr-jean/83080/ https://wist.info/kerr-jean/83080/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:02:10 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=83080 Oftentimes, in the evening after they have finished spreading the fertilizer, the writer and his wife sit on the fence — with a wonderful sense of “togetherness” — and listen to the magic symphony of the crickets.
I can understand that. Around our house, we’re pretty busy, and of course we’re not the least bit integrated, but nevertheless my husband and I often sit together in the deepening twilight and listen to the sweet, gentle slosh-click, slosh-click of the dishwasher. He smiles and I smile. Oh, it’s a golden moment.

Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Essay (1955-08-01), “Greenwich, Anyone?” Vogue Magazine
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Collected in Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957). ]]> https://wist.info/kerr-jean/83080/feed/ 0 83080 https://wist.info/kingsley-charles/37042/ https://wist.info/kingsley-charles/37042/#respond Wed, 24 May 2017 00:03:10 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=37042 When all the world is old, lad,
And all the trees are brown;
And all the sport is stale, lad,
And all the wheels run down;
Creep home, and take your place there,
The spent and maimed among: —
God grant you find one face there,
You loved when all was young.

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) English clergyman, historian, essayist, novelist (pseud. "Parson Lot")
“Water Babies,” Song 2, st. 2 (1863)
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