{"id":4898,"date":"2024-05-31T17:42:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T21:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2024-05-31T17:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T21:42:43","slug":"thinking-small-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=4898","title":{"rendered":"thinking small thoughts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I\u2019m thinking about<br>playing small<br>and the expression of<br>such<br>how we are warned against<br>and advised to<br>never<br>it\u2019s a big money maker, this expression<br>all the self-help, and the<br>to boldly go, kinda thinking<br>Go Be More, to get More, to have<br>MORE!!!<br><br>seems to me it all kind of goes against<br>the whole, You are enough<br>of things<br>suggests rather that<br>You<br>clearly<br>are Not<br>enough<br><br>unless\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I am thinking about<br>playing small<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in the garden, in the<br>sunshine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this being, my<br>place<br>to walk quietly, to<br>watch<br>to see<br>to<br>listen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not feeling very well<br>off my allergy medication for several days<br>doctor&#8217;s orders<br>as to get a more accurate test<br>currently unable to take in much food,<br>mostly sticking to water<br>moving slow<br>as to steady the queasiness<br>in my head<br>and even though I know it won\u2019t help much<br>and my face will start to<br>swell<br>and itch<br>I still spend a good part of the day<br>outside<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am greatly enamoured, as a matter of fact<br>in my communications with<br>nature<br>at<br>playing small<br>after all, standing under a vast bright blue sky<br>peering up<br>at the tops of the trees<br>I do believe, I am<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>quite<br>small<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>never really had the need<br>to be a<br>show stopper<br>a<br>climb higher<br>a<br>go getter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>think I\u2019m much more of <br>a <br>perfectly<br>content-er <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and there&#8217;s nothing<br>less<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>about that! \u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I\u2019m thinking aboutplaying smalland the expression ofsuchhow we are warned againstand advised toneverit\u2019s a big money maker, this expressionall the self-help, and theto boldly go, kinda thinkingGo Be More, to get More, to haveMORE!!! seems to me it all&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=4898\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1123,836,446,250,1122,74,85,1124],"class_list":["post-4898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clover","tag-inthegarden","tag-inthiswritersgarden","tag-measaflower","tag-playingsmall","tag-toyouthisday","tag-writelife","tag-youdoyou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898","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=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4902,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions\/4902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}