{"id":1490,"date":"2019-03-26T23:14:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T23:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2019-03-26T23:14:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T23:14:59","slug":"a-humorous-look-back-look-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/a-humorous-look-back-look-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"A humorous look back, look forward :)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes, you just got to laugh&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The subconscious or unconscious level can be brutally honest, and humorous, too! This exercise has two different but related pieces:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>She seemed to be having a fruitful conversation with herself<br>She was always \"special\" in the wink-wink way<br>Her demeanor politely described as other-worldly<br>Always longing for some reconciliation<br>But she was totally missing the significant in front of her<\/em><br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>There, in the universe of saints<br>Perfumed and fragrant as apple blossoms<br>Colors blazing like the orange in a sunrise<br>Sumptuous bounty beyond measure<br>Fantastic beyond imagination<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The first part is about me (my family, especially my blessed mom, would get a chuckle out of it). When I was a young girl, I was practically consumed by this need to know, something, to make sense of life, existence. A for instance, I had a tree I would climb and sit in, reading my dad&#8217;s metaphysics textbook, or frustrating myself to the point of tears trying to &#8220;know&#8221; concepts such as infinite regression, intellectually. Yeah, I was (am) <em>that <\/em>kid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;missing the significant in front of her&#8221; took me a while to digest. With &#8220;seasoning&#8221; (age), I&#8217;m learning the truth &#8212; it&#8217;s not happening &#8220;to&#8221; me, it&#8217;s all happening &#8220;for&#8221; me. All the lessons are there, right in front of me, like a patient teacher &#8212; this keeps coming up in your experience, why don&#8217;t you think about why that might be, wouldn&#8217;t a different choice be better? No? Sigh, all right, let&#8217;s try again. (Needless to say, I have not been a quick study!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-src=\"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kingdom-of-Heaven-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1495 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kingdom-of-Heaven-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kingdom-of-Heaven.jpg 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/169;\" \/><figcaption>Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/typographyimages-3575871\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1910658\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darwin Laganzon<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1910658\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The second part is certainly about &#8220;the kingdom&#8221; promised as the veil of knowing, remembering, who am I? lifts. I&#8217;d love to think it was some sort of foreshadowing, but, likely, it&#8217;s ego input. In this case, I doubt it matters &#8212; it will be a lovely end to the dream, someday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, you just got to laugh&#8230; The subconscious or unconscious level can be brutally honest, and humorous, too! This exercise has two different but related pieces: She seemed to be having a fruitful conversation with herselfShe was always &#8220;special&#8221; in the wink-wink wayHer demeanor politely described as other-worldlyAlways longing for some reconciliationBut she was totally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}