{"id":2495,"date":"2006-04-05T19:46:26","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T02:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:44:09","slug":"enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/04\/05\/enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Isn\u2019t It Enough?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To feel a chill as you rise from a warm<br \/>\nbed, stumble to the bath and with<br \/>\nnimble fingers tend to your body\u2019s<br \/>\nneeds, button your shirt, balance<br \/>\nas you put pants on one leg at a time?<\/p>\n<p>To hear the morning news, the coffee<br \/>\nmaker gurgling as you eat your<br \/>\nWheaties with skim milk, to listen in<br \/>\nthe comfort and illuminated safety of<br \/>\nyour kitchen as rain rattles the roof?<\/p>\n<p>To inhale the earth\u2019s perfume of wet<br \/>\ndirt, worms, roses and jasmine blooms,<br \/>\nto smell even the faint fumes of the<br \/>\nworld\u2019s morning commute as you join<br \/>\nwith humanity for the day\u2019s business?<\/p>\n<p>To taste the fresh tender day and<br \/>\nsavor the strong bitter brew from<br \/>\nyour steaming paper cup as<br \/>\nyou wait for the train under the shelter<br \/>\nwith the others, huddled like pigeons?<\/p>\n<p>To observe the blur of cinderblock<br \/>\nfortresses adorned with graffiti, the<br \/>\nlonely artifacts of life strewn across<br \/>\nanonymous backyards, to notice the<br \/>\nwindow cat watching the morning?<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nPoem #5 for NaPoWriMo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn\u2019t It Enough? To feel a chill as you rise from a warm bed, stumble to the bath and with nimble fingers tend to your body\u2019s needs, button your shirt, balance as you put pants on one leg at a time? To hear the morning news, the coffee maker gurgling as you eat your Wheaties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,28,16,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aenigmas","category-humanities","category-nature","category-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10341,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/10341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}