{"id":99976,"date":"2021-06-27T01:49:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99976"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:49:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:49:31","slug":"balance-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/balance-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(for hour 17)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Balancing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A kind woman in my MeWe homesteading group said,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have to pull all the weeds, just the weed in front of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her words in reverse on a black computer monitor resonated deeply within me,<\/p>\n<p>vibrating my bones with a harmonizing frequency that made me cry.<\/p>\n<p>Was this anxiety releasing?<\/p>\n<p>Depression?<\/p>\n<p>It was as if she knew me,<\/p>\n<p>knew I would be reading the messages,<\/p>\n<p>knew my Blessings Jar begun January 2020 atop the fridge is currently stressing me out.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the responsibilities mounting<\/p>\n<p>adding to the growing list of to-dos<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s a radically joyful thought to remember<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t have to accomplish all the tasks, just the task in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>One line item at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Until I get to the fantasy: clone myself<\/p>\n<p>and then teach my clone to fold and put away the laundry<\/p>\n<p>after getting the washer re-balanced.<\/p>\n<p>And isn\u2019t balance what it\u2019s all about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(for hour 17) &nbsp; &nbsp; Balancing &nbsp; A kind woman in my MeWe homesteading group said, \u201cI don\u2019t have to pull all the weeds, just the weed in front of me.\u201d Her words in reverse on a black computer monitor resonated deeply within me, vibrating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[3019,262],"class_list":["post-99976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-hour-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99989,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99976\/revisions\/99989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}