{"id":89763,"date":"2012-05-30T14:32:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T18:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/89763\/fragrance-peaceful-with-photo\/"},"modified":"2012-05-30T14:32:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T18:32:06","slug":"fragrance-peaceful-with-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/89763\/fragrance-peaceful-with-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"WITHIN THE FRAGRANCE OF PEACEFUL (with photo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i148.photobucket.com\/albums\/s4\/barbkaus\/Waimea%20Valley%20Botanical%20Gardens\/Beginning%20May%2010\/Beginning%201-1-11\/DanaPointSanJuanCap11-29-09328.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"><strong><em>WITHIN THE FRAGRANCE OF PEACEFUL<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"><em>Within the stillness<\/em><br \/><em>of this moment<\/em><br \/><em>toward the end<\/em><br \/><em>of a very long day,<\/em><br \/><em>I stop here<\/em><br \/><em>for just a moment,<\/em><br \/><em>retracing the steps<\/em><br \/><em>that brought me here.<\/em><br \/><em>I come here to this place<\/em><br \/><em>where the fragrance of peaceful<\/em><br \/><em>bathes my sometimes weary heart<\/em><br \/><em>in sweet waves of serenity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I come here<\/em><br \/><em>to evening\u2019s garden<\/em><br \/><em>that brings closure to my day<\/em><br \/><em>in bands of sunset splendor<\/em><br \/><em>painted across the twilight sky.<\/em><br \/><em>And as I linger<\/em><br \/><em>for just a little while<\/em><br \/><em>among the precious blooms,<\/em><br \/><em>my spirit restored,<\/em><br \/><em>my senses soothed,<\/em><br \/><em>peace once more returns<\/em><br \/><em>to my ever so restless heart.<\/em><br \/><em>And within the stillness<\/em><br \/><em>of this moment,<\/em><br \/><em>as the moon rises<\/em><br \/><em>above the hills,<\/em><br \/><em>I inhale the peace<\/em><br \/><em>of the garden<\/em><br \/><em>with the setting<\/em><br \/><em>of the sun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"><em>(c) barbara kausteklis 5-24-12<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"><em>Written for CPC Thematic Attic\/<\/em><br \/><em>&#8220;Thematic Attic Celebrates Garden Meditation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"><em>http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/89314\/thematic-attic-thursday-celebrates-garden-meditation\/<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/><em> <\/em><\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"><em>Thanks always for all visits and comments<\/em><br \/><em>and I hope this has been a peaceful week so far.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"><em>Big Hugs.<\/em><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Times;text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"><em>~barb~<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITHIN THE FRAGRANCE OF PEACEFUL Within the stillnessof this momenttoward the endof a very long day,I stop herefor just a moment,retracing the stepsthat brought me here.I come here to this placewhere the fragrance of peacefulbathes my sometimes weary heartin sweet waves of serenity. I come hereto evening\u2019s gardenthat brings closure to my dayin bands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,837,2,42,29],"tags":[63,159,3446],"class_list":["post-89763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-nature-2","category-other","category-photography","category-poems","tag-barbara-k","tag-cpc","tag-thematic-attic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}