{"id":1276,"date":"2011-07-01T07:42:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2011-07-01T07:42:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:42:53","slug":"wishful-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/01\/wishful-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishful Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/36-wishfulthinking.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-779\" title=\"36.wishfulthinking\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/36-wishfulthinking.jpg?resize=590%2C294\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hello faithful readers and welcome to you new subscribers who joined during my break, I\u2019m back!\u00a0 It was an intense month (not surprising since I was taking a 4 week American Sign Language 3 <em>intensive<\/em> in Sacramento) as well as teaching a two day art workshop in Mendocino.\u00a0 I slept (or as is often the case with me, laid) in so many different beds and places my head was spinning.\u00a0 Over the month I kept thinking about the dandelion I left you with at the beginning of June, pondering the thoughts and ideas the image was conjuring.\u00a0 It is common practice to pluck a dandelion, make a wish and blow your wishes to the wind.\u00a0 That image seemed a fitting symbol for my state of being by the end of June, I found myself wishful and wistful.\u00a0 My wishing wasn\u2019t focused on anything grand or monumental or noble.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t wishing to win the lottery or land a big show at the Modern Museum of Art or to end world hunger, as I held my little internal dandelion the thing I kept wishing for was ordinary time, to just have normal, regular\u2026 ordinary time.\u00a0 Not driving, not visiting, not planning,\u00a0 just ordinary time.\u00a0 In the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (and maybe others too for all I know) there are seasons.\u00a0 There is Advent, Epiphany, Lent, Easter and then, the day after Pentecost, there is ordinary time.\u00a0 It seems to me that ordinary time, both liturgically and personally, gives a bit of space, a bit of breathing room, a time for respite, recovery and reflection.\u00a0 And so as I set my dandelion seeds adrift on the wind of my wishes I find myself wishing for nothing more than run of the mill, common, normal, ordinary time with a little <em>turtle-time<\/em>* mixed in.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Turtle-time\u00a0 is what my son Ivan dubbed alone time back when he was 6.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To\u00a0 purchase todays post and others from past weeks follow the link to my website:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/mandala.html\">http:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/mandala.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello faithful readers and welcome to you new subscribers who joined during my break, I\u2019m back!\u00a0 It was an intense month (not surprising since I was taking a 4 week American Sign Language 3 intensive in Sacramento) as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,88],"tags":[278,566,815],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-inspiration","tag-dandelion","tag-ordinary-time","tag-wishful-thinking"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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