{"id":2879,"date":"2019-04-19T18:09:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T22:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2019-04-19T18:09:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T22:09:39","slug":"not-always-shiny-side-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"not always shiny side up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is the time of year where I start to feel <br>restless<br>anxious and worrisome<br>spring starts to roll and life begins to move<br>at a pace,\u00a0 I feel trampled<br>by<br>maybe it&#8217;s this moon business, <br>maybe it&#8217;s <br>just me<br>a shift in hormones knocks me down<br>repeatedly<br>everything around me<br>feels crowded and stifling<br>things to do, things to do, things\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 do<br>as frustration mounts and I become <br>thinner of <br>skin<br>I spend much time just trying to keep my face<br>above <br>water<br>reminding myself to breathe\u2026<br>deep<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this is not to say that I don\u2019t still fill myself <br>with gratitude<br>because I do    (i always do)<br>I know well,  the two things that keep me afloat<br>are love<br>and gratitude<br>and just how much both<br>are an absolute and oh so necessary part <br> of me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this\u2026\u00a0 is just to say that you can indeed feel one,<br>as well <br>as the other<br>and both,\u00a0 are still ok<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>days are wonderful, and days are<br>tough<br>and days\u2026<br>are wonderful again<br>(much the same as people)<br>we just don&#8217;t always find ourselves<br>shiny side up<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>yet there is gratitude to be found<br>if you are open<br>there is<br>kindness in good hearts<br>there are kisses to<br>savour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and too&#8230;<br>there are love notes to send<br>out<br>on the wind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in hopes that they find you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>whole \u00a0\u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the time of year where I start to feel restlessanxious and worrisomespring starts to roll and life begins to moveat a pace,\u00a0 I feel trampledbymaybe it&#8217;s this moon business, maybe it&#8217;s just mea shift in hormones knocks me&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=2879\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[195,237,238,236],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-livingmygratitude","tag-savouringkisses","tag-sendingulove","tag-shinysideup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","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=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/2883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}