{"id":130,"date":"2010-02-15T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2010-02-15T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:00:59","slug":"off-kilter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/2010\/off-kilter\/","title":{"rendered":"Off Kilter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting at my computer with the sun streaming through the frigid air outside and into my warm room, sipping coffee brought to me from across the ocean by a friend, it&#8217;s rich flavor blunted by local raw cream and a bit of honey.  The dichotomies of life seem harsh and stark today.  <\/p>\n<p>The world seems off-kilter, tilted, like the deck of a boat in uncertain weather.  The thoughtless routine of daily life goes on, and yet it seems ever more important to elude it&#8217;s pull.  And to find meaning; if not outside of that routine, then somehow within it.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m eating my local organic eggs with a mango, which I see (after scrounging the label from the trash in curiosity) is from Peru.  And I&#8217;m remembering a sustainable local dinner provided by a lovely vibrant woman, a woman who would embrace my mango from Peru and yet, also inspire me to notice, to appreciate, to live with awareness and conscious choice.  A woman who is suddenly gone.   Somehow I just can&#8217;t find the meaning in that, quite yet.  But I can sip my coffee with awareness and appreciation, and I can give out unconditional love, and that will have to be enough for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting at my computer with the sun streaming through the frigid air outside and into my warm room, sipping coffee brought to me from across the ocean by a friend, it&#8217;s rich flavor blunted by local raw cream and a bit of honey. The dichotomies of life seem harsh and stark today. The world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}