{"id":4463,"date":"2015-08-17T23:18:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T03:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4463"},"modified":"2015-08-17T23:55:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T03:55:58","slug":"now-you-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4463","title":{"rendered":"Now you see it…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"flowerewatch\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The last couple of days have been a little sideways for me. I think my planetary alignment has gone kablllooooey.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I went to see my Mom this morning, as I do most days.\u00a0 She is 91 and has dementia.\u00a0 She lives at Greenbriar.\u00a0 Sometimes she knows this, other times she does not.\u00a0 Depending on the day, I may find her in any number of mental states.\u00a0 Some visits are good, and others\u2026 well\u2026 not so good.<\/p>\n

Today was not so good.\u00a0 There are times when her mind is swirling in a non-stop vortex of muddled time, reality, and trenchant confusion.\u00a0 Yet, in the midst of all of this, she will occasionally have incredible intuitive insight.<\/p>\n

Out of nowhere.<\/p>\n

Thus, today, Mom says\u2026 \u201cWhat are you searching for?\u201d
\nMe: \u201cHow do you know I am searching for something?\u201d
\nShe:\u00a0 \u201cYou are.\u00a0 What kind of treasure are you looking for?\u201d
\nMe:\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t know Mom.\u201d
\nShe:\u00a0 \u201cWell, here is what you have to do.\u00a0 You have to dive.\u201d
\nMe:\u00a0 \u201cDive?\u00a0 Where Mom?\u201d
\nShe:\u00a0 \u201cDive like into the water.\u00a0 What you are looking for is underneath the big rock.\u00a0 You have to lift up the rock and look underneath.\u00a0 Then you will find the treasure.\u201d
\nMe: \u201cI\u2019ll try Mom.\u201d
\nShe: \u201cThe big rock wont\u2019 be so heavy since is under the water.\u00a0 You just have to tip it up and look underneath.\u00a0 That\u2019s where you\u2019ll find what you are looking for.\u00a0 That\u2019s where the treasure will be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Okay.\u00a0 While this might sound like mumbo-jumbo to you, it was incredibly profound, and apropos.\u00a0 In fact, I wish she had told me sooner.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how any of this works.\u00a0 Her mind.\u00a0 Or more to the point\u2026. the universe.\u00a0 I know there are a lot of people who believe in grand design… everything happening according to plan, just as it should.\u00a0 And there are others who think this is all an arbitrary assemblage of swirling randomness.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know which one is true.\u00a0 Or maybe both.
\nBut.\u00a0 I am supposed to dive deep today.\u00a0 I just know it.<\/p>\n

My Mom told me so.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0 Stephen Hawking<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0\u00a0 John Muir<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last couple of days have been a little sideways for me. I think my planetary alignment has gone kablllooooey. At any rate, I went to see my Mom this morning, as I do most days.\u00a0 She is 91 and has dementia.\u00a0 She lives at Greenbriar.\u00a0 Sometimes she knows this, other times she does not.\u00a0 […]<\/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-4463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4468,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions\/4468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}