{"id":2155,"date":"2018-06-24T14:29:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T18:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2018-06-24T14:29:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T18:29:31","slug":"freedom-to-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=2155","title":{"rendered":"freedom to soar&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cBehave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ~ Henry David Thoreau\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday,\u00a0 I take a walk outside<br \/>\nthe only sounds are the birds and a faraway<br \/>\nairplane<br \/>\nlost in thought<br \/>\nI stop and stand on a rock that we have not yet sunken into<br \/>\nthe path<br \/>\nfeet together, my hands are on my hips, I stand looking up<br \/>\nat the sky<br \/>\nat the billows of white, some brightly\u00a0 touched by sunlight<br \/>\nsome grey..\u00a0 looming<br \/>\nI breathe in deep and lose myself in the silence<br \/>\nthat surrounds me<br \/>\nin the nature of leaves, trees and clouds<br \/>\nin an endless sky<br \/>\nabove me, as far up as I can see,\u00a0 maybe nine birds<br \/>\nsoaring in a graceful synchronized bit of<br \/>\nTai Chi<br \/>\nperfectly fluid in motion<br \/>\nand while I am still, I can feel myself soaring<br \/>\ntoo<br \/>\nI breathe in and notice I am now standing taller<br \/>\nstretching<br \/>\nI feel as if I have joined the vastness of the sky<br \/>\nand in this spot, in this silence<br \/>\nin this great poetry of motion above<br \/>\nI am<br \/>\nfilled<br \/>\nto overflowing<br \/>\nwith<br \/>\ngreat<br \/>\ngratitude<br \/>\nso much so that I can almost feel tears<\/p>\n<p>incredible<\/p>\n<p>some days it is as simple<br \/>\nas just<br \/>\nthat<\/p>\n<p>here I am<\/p>\n<p>open \u2026\u00a0 like sky\u00a0 \u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBehave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ~ Henry David Thoreau\u00a0 Yesterday,\u00a0 I take a walk outside the only sounds are the birds and a faraway airplane lost in thought I&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=2155\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}