{"id":5247,"date":"2025-10-29T15:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=5247"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:59:11","slug":"soup-and-crackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=5247","title":{"rendered":"soup and crackers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night at dinner,<br>my first spoonful of tomato soup<br>and soda crackers<br>aw, looooook I say to him<br>the broken bit of cracker on my spoon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a perfectly lovely heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the other day at work,<br>it\u2019s the time of year that the whitewash comes off<br>of the greenhouse<br>and I remind myself that I<br>can see the sky&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this morning in the garden<br>on yet another gorgeous fall day<br>it occurs to me<br>that the cedar really is a most wonderful<br>display<br>of how autumn is to be<br>the warm, spicy sort of orange against the<br>greenest greens<br>and the rough, beautiful browns<br>of the bark<br>the scent that smells of<br>comfort<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>at the weekend, last<br>we had dinner and spent the night with<br>the kindest most comfortable<br>of friends<br>to which I, involuntarily<br>walked in masking the most horrible of<br>moods<br>completely unnoticed, on the threshold<br>I seem to misplace<br>the cloud I\u2019d been under<br>and once again, loving kindness proves<br>the best medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this weekend a birthday approaches<br>and today, the one who loves me most<br>does a little late shopping<br>for something special<br>to<br>surprise<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(as my closest confidante, I can tell you, in secret<br>it\u2019s me!)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>maybe all I can tell you today, my friend<br>is<br>find something to celebrate<br>in your day<br>even if its just crackers in your<br>soup<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>remind yourself, regularly<br>that you<br>can see the sky<br>all you have to do is look<br>up<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>always appreciate those<br>in your corner<br>of which there are<br>many<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and do<br>whatever you do, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>surround yourself<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with <br>love \u2665<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at dinner,my first spoonful of tomato soupand soda crackersaw, looooook I say to himthe broken bit of cracker on my spoon a perfectly lovely heart the other day at work,it\u2019s the time of year that the whitewash comes&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=5247\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[380,689,1266,896,446,223,201,74,85],"class_list":["post-5247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alwayslookingup","tag-begoodtoyou","tag-cedar","tag-falldays","tag-inthiswritersgarden","tag-noticelife","tag-openlikesky","tag-toyouthisday","tag-writelife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247","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=5247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5249,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions\/5249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}