{"id":117,"date":"2012-12-02T10:26:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T19:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/?p=117"},"modified":"2012-12-08T14:18:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T23:18:02","slug":"everything-made-sense-because-i-tried-not-to-make-sense-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/everything-made-sense-because-i-tried-not-to-make-sense-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything made sense because I tried not to make sense of it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Everything was quiet then. I had yet to wake the children. My husband was gone. The dogs were resting. The slightest snow fell to the ground dusting, just dusting the world beyond. I had yet to open the curtains, yet to turn the computer on, yet to have a sip of hot tea. The notion that I lacked nothing settled upon me as the snow outside the window settled on the frozen ground. Everything made sense because I tried not to make sense of it. For the moment, in the still dark room, I sat and listened.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is from<a href=\"http:\/\/open.salon.com\/blog\/bridgett_jensen\/2011\/01\/19\/william_stafford_and_the_tao_follow_the_golden_thread\" target=\"_blank\"> a beautiful essay by Bridgett Jensen<\/a> on Oregon&#8217;s late great poet: <a href=\"http:\/\/open.salon.com\/blog\/bridgett_jensen\/2011\/01\/19\/william_stafford_and_the_tao_follow_the_golden_thread\">William Stafford and the Tao: Follow the Golden Thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jensen is a creative writing teacher who works with troubled kids and adult learners in Ohio (more on that work <a href=\"http:\/\/sussitout.org\/introduction-to-poetry\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everything was quiet then. I had yet to wake the children. My husband was gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[67,66,70,71,68,51,65,52,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}