{"id":3145,"date":"2018-10-02T10:04:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2018-10-02T10:04:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:04:04","slug":"this-is-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/02\/this-is-now\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3146\" style=\"width: 3010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3146\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3146\" src=\"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/this-is-now-2-panels-48x48.jpg?resize=1100%2C1100\" alt=\"This is Now 2 panels 48x48&quot;\" width=\"1100\" height=\"1100\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>This is Now &#8211; 48&#215;48&#8243; paint on wood panel<br \/><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is Tuesday morning and I&#8217;m enjoying the rain that continues to fall outside my window. I donned by rubber-boots, raincoat and rain-pants and went for my first rubber-boot walk of what I hope will be a nice wet rainy season here in parched Sonoma County, California. Fully protected from the downpour, I could rejoice in the sound, smell, touch and even taste of the rain. I found myself fully in the moment, relishing the plopping sound of the fat raindrops as they accumulated on the bay laurel and released to the leafy forest floor below. Oh and the smell, the smell is divine, a mixture of the spicy smell of the bay trees and the licorice smell of the wild fennel tall and dry along the road as well as a smell that is all its own \u2013 the smell of fresh rain on dry ground \u2013 to be more precise <em>petrichor<\/em>. I didn\u2019t know this word until my friend Jennifer shared it with me. Petrichor means \u201c<em>the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry grounds\u201d. <\/em>A pair of Australian scientists coined the word in 1964 and I found a surprisingly beautiful video that shows how this aroma is released into the air <a href=\"https:\/\/urnabios.com\/petrichor-the-smell-of-rain-video\/\">here is the link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I am blessed this day to have experienced this feast of the senses this morning and to be reminded once again to <strong><em>observe this brilliant moment. <\/em><\/strong>That phrase has become a bit of a mantra from me and I hope it will remind you to seek wonder every day.<\/p>\n<p>The painting above is a new one. It is titled <strong><em>This is Now<\/em><\/strong>. I finished \u00a0the painting last week and hung at Gallery 300 in Sebastopol CA, yesterday. 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