{"id":2786,"date":"2019-03-15T17:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T21:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2019-03-15T17:17:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T21:17:12","slug":"how-it-is-we-spend-our-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=2786","title":{"rendered":"how it is we spend our days&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>how it is we spend our days,<br \/>\nis<br \/>\nhow it is<br \/>\nwe spend our<br \/>\ndays<\/p>\n<p>today I\u2019m thinking \u00a0briefly about<br \/>\nwhat it is I could have done<br \/>\nif only I had\u2026<\/p>\n<p>and<br \/>\nwhat I would be like<br \/>\nif only I was\u2026<\/p>\n<p>where I would be<br \/>\nif I were\u2026<\/p>\n<p>and what that would be like<br \/>\nfor me<\/p>\n<p>I catch sight of myself in a mirror<br \/>\none of those, <em>objects may be closer than they appear<\/em><br \/>\nrather tired and I suppose, I look it<br \/>\npensive<br \/>\nslightly puffed<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m thinking what it would be like<br \/>\nto list all of the things we like about ourselves<br \/>\nin appearance in<br \/>\ncharacter, in<br \/>\nvirtues<br \/>\nand then, make a list of all of the things<br \/>\nwe<br \/>\ndon\u2019t<br \/>\nlike<br \/>\nwhich list comes easier<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nwhich list is it do you think, we would remember<br \/>\nmost<br \/>\nwhich one stays with us<br \/>\nlike a small spike in one\u2019s side<br \/>\nuntil<br \/>\nthe words of someone kind<br \/>\ntouch us<br \/>\nand how very soft we become<br \/>\nwhen once we are<br \/>\nadored<\/p>\n<p>what if we spent our days<br \/>\nlooking kindly on ourselves<br \/>\nknowing what a joy it is to be here<br \/>\nas we<br \/>\nare<br \/>\nexactly,\u00a0 as we are<\/p>\n<p>knowing that love travels through us<br \/>\nswirls around us<br \/>\ngathers<br \/>\nin us<br \/>\nevery day<br \/>\n(it&#8217;s all an inside job)<\/p>\n<p>how would it be<br \/>\nif we smiled at ourselves<br \/>\nmore<br \/>\nand lamented<br \/>\nless<\/p>\n<p>if we appreciated the things that make us<br \/>\nus<br \/>\nand honoured them<br \/>\nkindly<br \/>\ngratefully<br \/>\nreverently<\/p>\n<p>we are curious creatures,\u00a0 and how we choose<br \/>\nto spend our days<br \/>\nis<br \/>\nprecisely, how<br \/>\nwe choose<br \/>\nto spend our days<\/p>\n<p>sat here, by my window to the world<br \/>\nwhat I\u2019m thinking about today is<br \/>\nthe realness of beauty<br \/>\nand how very much I value<br \/>\nnot only the<br \/>\nflower and the flourish<br \/>\nbut also<br \/>\nthe gentle softening nature<br \/>\nof\u00a0 rain\u00a0 \u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>how it is we spend our days, is how it is we spend our days today I\u2019m thinking \u00a0briefly about what it is I could have done if only I had\u2026 and what I would be like if only I&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=2786\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[195,211,209,210],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-livingmygratitude","tag-loveyou","tag-realbeauty","tag-windowtotheworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","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=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}