{"id":1306,"date":"2012-05-04T07:29:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T14:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2012-05-04T07:29:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T14:29:28","slug":"a-life-measured-in-heartbeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/04\/a-life-measured-in-heartbeats\/","title":{"rendered":"A Life Measured in Heartbeats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/108-april.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1210\" title=\"108.april\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/108-april.jpg?resize=504%2C504\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well here it is May and I\u2019m posting my April Painting, a wee bit behind the curve, but that\u2019s how life goes sometimes. This April sprinted across my course like a startled lizard on the garden path, a flitting bluebird from field to fence.\u00a0 All month long April revealed her charms, spring has truly sprung now.\u00a0 I was drawn this month to the neighboring cows.\u00a0 At this time of year the young female cows are let to graze in the pasture bordering The Bishop\u2019s Ranch north and east sides.\u00a0 They are a happy lot gamboling and leaping, grazing and sleeping.\u00a0 They are in a charmed place in their lives, old enough to be let out on their own (lack pack of teens at the boardwalk in summer) but not old enough to have carry the burden of their destiny, milk, milk and more milk.\u00a0 So it seemed to me that these happy cows should be featured this month, along with the iconic poppies and bluebirds that grace our habitat zone here on a little hillside that could accurately be called paradise.<\/p>\n<p>So why in this rosy blush of spring am I thinking about life span, beginnings and endings?\u00a0\u00a0 Well it all started as I began to look at the pace of things, how days and weeks can seem to fly by sometimes, sadly, without notice.\u00a0 It got me thinking about a science radio show I\u2019d heard about lifespan measured in heartbeats.\u00a0 The average land animal has about 1 billion heartbeats of life.\u00a0 For a hamster those 1 billion heartbeats equal, on average, just under 3 years of life, for elephants 1 billion heartbeats gives about 69 years of life.\u00a0 In the half million year history of human existence on earth humans kept to that approximate 1 billion heartbeat equation too, which added up to about 35 years.\u00a0 In the last few hundred years of human history we have managed to up that to just less than 3 billion heartbeats in a life.\u00a0\u00a0 Again why am I focusing on this?!\u00a0 Well some where in the last few weeks in the lovely month of April now turned May, during a mediation the leader said something about turning down our brain, our willful mind, and turning up our hearts, our faithful beating hearts.\u00a0\u00a0 The loyal rhythmic ruler of our lifespan that needs no direction from our conscious self, the heart beats on, 3 billion heart beats, if we are lucky, best not let too many slip away unnoticed. Welcome May, whatever wonder and wisdom you reveal, my heart awaits.<\/p>\n<p><em>My sweet, busy husband\/webmaster has put this painting and the past 2 weeks art (teacup banner and still life) for sale on my website check it out&gt; <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/\"><em>http:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well here it is May and I\u2019m posting my April Painting, a wee bit behind the curve, but that\u2019s how life goes sometimes. 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