{"id":556,"date":"2008-09-24T11:35:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T15:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2008-09-24T11:35:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T15:35:54","slug":"window-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Window to the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking up at the stars before dawn.\u00c2\u00a0 Just woke up and realized that I could stare &#8211; almost straight up &#8211; at the sky and see the constellations clearly. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">It was late last night when I went to bed and I went straight to sleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. I failed to look out at the two huge windows on one side of the room that had a clear view of rolling green lawns, lush trees, and a clear sky.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">I am in Spartanburg visiting friends in their new home. I came early to get ready for an important meeting in Greenville later today. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in a transition in my life &#8211; like we all find ourselves in from time to time &#8211; and spending more time these days focusing on my surroundings and me again.\u00c2\u00a0 I had lost some touch with those things lately and am so glad to be re-energizing and channeling my energies more positively. \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">As I transition, I reflect on how I got to where I was, what I want to avoid doing again, and where my hopes and dreams lie.\u00c2\u00a0 I am focusing on taking better care of myself both emotionally and physically.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good time of year to do this.\u00c2\u00a0 The leaves are getting ready to change, the air is cooler &#8211; at least in the morning, fall is upon us and the promise of cold weather is not far behind. My favorite time of year is fast approaching.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><strong>My wish for you today <\/strong>is that you take the time to look around wherever you are and be grateful for what you have as you look out of the windows of your life!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking up at the stars before dawn.\u00c2\u00a0 Just woke up and realized that I could stare &#8211; almost straight up &#8211; at the sky and see the constellations clearly. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-events","category-living-life-to-the-fullest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}