{"id":3176,"date":"2019-11-08T14:27:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T19:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2019-11-08T14:27:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T19:27:30","slug":"befuddled-by-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=3176","title":{"rendered":"befuddled by life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What if you never do anything of any importance in the world?<br>What if you never did anything<br>good?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>who\u2019s the judge and what\nare the rules?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have this thing for voicing things I don\u2019t<br>understand<br>I don\u2019t understand the logic in this, the thought process, the end goal<br>the un-bothered cruelty<br>the<br>unthinking-ness<br>the subtly unkind<br>the unnecessary spite\u2026<br>I try to be open to understanding, to separate ego<br>not to be <br>easily bruised<br>but the tightness in my jaw, gives me away<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think often of things we allow<br>and should <br>not<br>of things we endure and bear witness<br>to<br>of things we spend our time on<br>or often run away from<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>yesterday I come home feeling rather beaten, in spirit<br>(as I have been for many weeks now)<br>I\u2019ve been annoyed and angered, frustrated and bothered<br>I feel as if a kind and peaceful self has been stomping around<br>in rather large and angry <br>boots<br>that really,\u00a0 are just not my size<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and today, I am wanting<br>still<br>the softening of a day, the gentleness of love<br>I am sitting with a book, while the sunshine caresses the skin on the back of my hand<br>(as it is,<br> \u00a0covered in small cuts and scars)<br>I am exhaling large sighs that feel like <br>a sinking <br>I am trying to unfurl, while leaving aside the swirl <br>of conversations in my head<br>that seem to want, <br>a going over<br>decisions to be made&#8230;<br>my chair becomes an island, where I can sit and listen to<br>the calm, cool, comforting lap of water<br>while gazing up at the beauty<br>and vastness<br>of a bluer than blue sky<br>that shines<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>yesterday Carrie Anne Moss brings me, <em>\u201cI am no longer willing to sacrifice my peace..\u201d<\/em><br>and today I try to breathe this in<br>s-l-o-w&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>because this is what I want to bring<br>to this world<br>a kind loving heart and a <br>peaceful spirit and mind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>whether that proves to mean anything on a <br>larger scale<br>isn\u2019t for me to know<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>what I do know,<br>is this is me<br>and this<br>is all I have\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>so today,\u00a0 I am resting  \u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if you never do anything of any importance in the world?What if you never did anythinggood? who\u2019s the judge and what are the rules? I have this thing for voicing things I don\u2019tunderstandI don\u2019t understand the logic in this,&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=3176\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[340,343,342,341],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kindunderstanding","tag-offertheworld","tag-restandrefuel","tag-sacrificingpeace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","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=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}