I remember being a passenger in a car full of teachers back in the 1970s.  We had been to a meeting in Columbia, SC, as part of the South Carolina Education Association.  Six of us shoulder to shoulder in someone’s sedan.

“What would you wish for if you had one wish?” posed our driver, a lady named Pat from Fort Mill.  I remember what I said. “A Corvette.”  Conversation flowed and time flew.

I only recall one other answer. “Money to buy all the groceries I want in the supermarket” or something close to that.  I was struck by that humble longing and felt a little ashamed of what I had offered up and said.

Today’s wishes:

Banish Nita’s pain.

Have the magic ability to speak other languages and place myself in another country for a few weeks with my language ability.  I would love to drop into China and see into the rise of the new leading country of the world from the perspective of a native speaker.