Kristine Joy, Writer

To Whom It May Concern and FWIW,*

• I needed to see this post and this post because of what they captured and conveyed.

The Joy of Sports in a Bottle Social Media Post

• I needed to have read Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur because….
  • ….it didn’t take very long and I have a goal to read 25 books before the end of 2025!
  • ….the poetry made me smile, think, weep, anger, hopeful, brave…
  • …I was inspired to create my own poetry.

“how is it so easy for you to be kind to people…

…cause people have not been kind to me”

rupi kaur

• Years ago, I needed to have been smart enough to realize (before purchasing) that a maze like slow feeder dog bowl would not fulfill the designated purpose when used on a pug:

Scout’s flat face and a bowl slightly deeper than the one pictured made for a NO FEEDER DOG BOWL 🤣 and a SAD CONFUSED PUPPY.

• I needed not to have read the Title of the book that my husband was reading, The Hard Way, by Lee Child, and to have immediately thought, “How about you put that book down and we turn that fiction into non-fiction?“

How old am I?!?

45
(supposedly)

• While camping, I presented Em with a package of freeze dried chocolate chip cookie 🍪 dough bites. And they were awfully awful. But, I needed her to find humor in the moment such that I was less upset about having wasted the 💰:

“You should give these to people as a gag gift. Literally a gag gift!”

• And I needed to stumble across this note of hers from many moons ago while decluttering:

Schedule

1. Admire my hard work.
2. 10:00 Hot Tub
3. Have fun!

– Em (age 6-7ish)

• I need to stick to my own script, never falter, not hurt another, even one, and especially not the one, despite, at times, hurting myself.

• I needed for ChatGPT to help me start on a possible tattoo design. And for me to come up with the idea to put it on my side, just under my rib cage, because a symbolic tattoo would of course be part of my CORE being. 🤣

• I need to get some semblance of a golf game back before our end of the season staff best ball outing on Thursday. This is especially true after adding my commentary to the sh!t t@lk group text:

I will apologize before play,
if afterward, your sky is gray.
Is it even possible to avoid doomsday,
when it will be a typical workday 🥱
for I and Jay?!?

• I need not be living a life in which I go home to my TWO husbands and daughter on a weekend here and there. But since I am, I need the shared household sense of peace ☮️, harmony and love ❤️ to prevail by all and I must admit, we’re slaying it! 🗡️ 👏

• I need to be held now and again. But, only by ONE of the above mentioned husbands.

I appreciate your readership. I need the validation as writer; if there is a like or heart icon for you to depress, I’d most appreciate the support!

Sincerely,

K.J. Sculling

* The content is presented as “needs”, and some of them may front a harsh reality that evoke strong emotions. Others are expressed in pure jest to entertain myself (and maybe you?!?). Ultimately, the notion that we all live in a more idyllic world is at the core and not actual need. Life can be tough; regardless of your own circumstances, please keep up the fight because life can also be grand! The idea of ‘I Need…’ stemmed from my thought process while sitting at a red light listening to the song, Alright by Darius Rucker, on the radio (you can read the original ‘Idealist’ post here and all ‘Idealist’ posts here). If you’re inspired to submit your own ‘Idealist’ “needs” for future reader write-in posts, I’d love to hear from you via this form.