{"id":4723,"date":"2015-09-16T23:23:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T03:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2015-09-17T00:18:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T04:18:42","slug":"tiny-dancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4723","title":{"rendered":"Where you go. Or do."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dude\"<\/a> \"grate\"<\/a> \"pod\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Have you ever been somewhere in your childhood, and then\u2026 as an adult\u2026 return to that \u201cplace\u201d?<\/p>\n

Like a home where you lived as a kid?\u00a0 Or an amusement park?\u00a0 A baseball field? Or some such deal?\u00a0 It seems like nine times out of ten, it is much smaller, or darker, or WAY less grand, than when you were a kid.<\/p>\n

Well.\u00a0 This changes when you get older.\u00a0 I think.\u00a0 We went back to Charleston, SC.\u00a0 It was our home away from home for a while.\u00a0 I anticipated that it would feel very different.\u00a0 I guessed it would be less magical, not nearly as splendid, or a bit lack-luster.<\/p>\n

I was wrong. It was every bit as majestic as I remembered.\u00a0 Truly, a great city.\u00a0 Culture, people, charm, food, food, food. \u00a0 Did I mention the food?<\/p>\n

I had missed a lot about Charleston though.\u00a0 A lot.<\/p>\n

But there were little things that made me happiest.\u00a0 These photos are some of them.\u00a0 Everywhere I looked, were tiny trinkets\u2026 just asking for it.<\/p>\n

Asking for what?\u00a0 Well.\u00a0 That\u2019s between each individual, and every little sparkly spark in time… which you might deem a\u00a0 trinket.<\/p>\n

It is really the same during the every day, everywhere …. … I guess.<\/p>\n

It is taking notice, is what I suspect.\u00a0 Waking up enough in the \u201ceveryday\u201d to actually take the time to look.\u00a0 To see.\u00a0 To hear.\u00a0 To feel.<\/p>\n

So much of our time, we spend wishing it was another time, or another place.\u00a0 \u201cI can\u2019t wait until I get out of work.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cOh, when will this meeting ever be over?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI hate sitting in this traffic.\u201d\u00a0 And on, and on.<\/p>\n

Maybe it is better when we shake those thoughts out of our minds, and appreciate each heartbeat, each breath, and each glimpse.\u00a0\u00a0 We can notice the little gifts that way.\u00a0 We can see those trinkets\u2026 no matter where we are.<\/p>\n

Like tonight.\u00a0 When we returned back to our Home in Ohio.<\/p>\n

And in that way, every moment might be just as grand as the next.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.<\/strong><\/em>
\n— Malala Yousafzai<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.<\/strong><\/em>
\n— Joseph Campbell<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

— Epictetus<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever been somewhere in your childhood, and then\u2026 as an adult\u2026 return to that \u201cplace\u201d? Like a home where you lived as a kid?\u00a0 Or an amusement park?\u00a0 A baseball field? Or some such deal?\u00a0 It seems like nine times out of ten, it is much smaller, or darker, or WAY less grand, […]<\/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-4723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723","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=4723"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4732,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions\/4732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}