{"id":790,"date":"2009-08-27T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2009-10-31T16:57:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T16:57:33","slug":"wondering-as-we-wander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"Wondering As We Wander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/2818980400\/\" target= _blank title=\"Kelvingrove Park 166 by wishiwerebaking, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=10 align=left  src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3278\/2818980400_34579d9d97_m.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Kelvingrove Park 166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;All my life I&#8217;ve been drenched in this sense of wonder and gratitude.  And yet I can also feel broad stripes of sadness, the full tarot deck of anticipated loss and, these days, a real peristalsis of worry.  As we age, we face the reality of many new and impending losses.  We succumb easily to our fears.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/2806647863\/\" target= _blank title=\"Kelvingrove Park 158 by wishiwerebaking, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=10 align=right src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3005\/2806647863_deaef41b3a_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Kelvingrove Park 158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But wonder is a bulky emotion.  When it fills the heart and mind, there simply isn&#8217;t room for anything else.  The sun rises, nature reblooms, birds pursue their own rich dramas, and Earth spins on, a rare garden in space.  I have only to pay attention and my spirit levels.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<div align=right>&#8211; Diane Ackerman<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div align=center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/2989198983\/\" target= _blank title=\"Kelvingrove Park Magpies 41 by wishiwerebaking, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3221\/2989198983_221eb32edd_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Kelvingrove Park Magpies 41\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"Indent\"><i>&#8211; D &amp; T<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/80x15.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>This work is licensed under a<br \/>\n<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All my life I&#8217;ve been drenched in this sense of wonder and gratitude. And yet I can also feel broad stripes of sadness, the full tarot deck of anticipated loss and, these days, a real peristalsis of worry. As we age, we face the reality of many new and impending losses. We succumb easily to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}