{"id":2327,"date":"2018-08-26T13:21:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2018-08-26T13:21:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T17:21:37","slug":"in-further-studies-of-me-as-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=2327","title":{"rendered":"in further studies of me&#8230;  as flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When every day becomes the practice<br \/>\nof letting go<\/p>\n<p>of things..<br \/>\nold things, no longer useful things<br \/>\nold beliefs<br \/>\nold certainties<br \/>\nold<br \/>\nwishes<\/p>\n<p>extra things<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nexcess things<br \/>\nand things that just don\u2019t serve<\/p>\n<p>things thought to be in our control<br \/>\nand things<br \/>\nthat never were\u2026<\/p>\n<p>old fears (a constant with me)<br \/>\nold<br \/>\ntears<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nold scars<\/p>\n<p>even beautiful things<br \/>\nand cherished things<br \/>\nand<br \/>\npeople we.. can\u2019t..\u00a0 \u00a0 lose<\/p>\n<p>(breathe with me here&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>you see then,<br \/>\nwhen every day becomes the practice<br \/>\nof letting go\u2026<\/p>\n<p>we become<br \/>\nmost grateful<br \/>\nmost<br \/>\nopen<br \/>\nmost mindful<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nfree<\/p>\n<p>we more easily become<br \/>\njoy<\/p>\n<p>we then allow ourselves to spread our wings<br \/>\nwith ease we become a kind of<br \/>\nflow<br \/>\nand then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>we<br \/>\nsoar<\/p>\n<p><em>(Easier said than done?\u00a0 That\u2019s why we use the word \u2018practice\u2019 .)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*today in conversations with my dear thistle\u00a0 \u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When every day becomes the practice of letting go of things.. old things, no longer useful things old beliefs old certainties old wishes extra things and excess things and things that just don\u2019t serve things thought to be in our&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=2327\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,123,122],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gratefulliving","tag-letitgoletitgo-toapractice","tag-wisdomoftheflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","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=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}