{"id":94599,"date":"2012-08-15T12:56:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T16:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/94599\/heart-6\/"},"modified":"2012-08-15T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T16:56:35","slug":"heart-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/94599\/heart-6\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST SOMETIMES &#8212; from the heart . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Times;font-style: italic\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"><strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i148.photobucket.com\/albums\/s4\/barbkaus\/Waimea%20Valley%20Botanical%20Gardens\/Beginning%20May%2010\/Beginning%201-1-11\/writing.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"times new roman,times\"><strong>JUST SOMETIMES<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"times new roman,times\">Sometimes,<br \/>\njust sometimes,<br \/>\nI am able<br \/>\nto find the words<br \/>\nto express what<br \/>\nhappens to be<br \/>\nwithin my heart<br \/>\nat the moment.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"times new roman,times\">I find myself arriving<br \/>\nto each new day at dawn<br \/>\nwith a sense of anticipation<br \/>\nof what I might find<br \/>\njust around the corner<br \/>\nof my mind<br \/>\nand my heart,<br \/>\nfully realizing,<br \/>\nas I&#8217;ve become so very aware,<br \/>\nespecially over the past few years,<br \/>\nof how each day is a precious gift<br \/>\nnot to be squandered.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"times new roman,times\">For we are so very fragile<br \/>\nin every way,<br \/>\nour physical well-being,<br \/>\nour emotions,<br \/>\nthe world around us,<br \/>\nour place in it,<br \/>\nwho we are<br \/>\nand what we have been<br \/>\nand who and what<br \/>\nwe will become.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"times new roman,times\">As strong as I can believe I am,<br \/>\nI know as well that<br \/>\nI am equally vulnerable,<br \/>\nevery part of me,<br \/>\nand each day reminded<br \/>\nin what I hear,<br \/>\nin what I see,<br \/>\nin what I feel<br \/>\nthat my life<br \/>\ncan change its course<br \/>\nin a split second<br \/>\nor less,<br \/>\nand without<br \/>\nany warning<br \/>\nat all.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"times new roman,times\">And I can only remain thankful<br \/>\nfor each moment I have,<br \/>\ntreasured gifts each one,<br \/>\nand make the best of them.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i148.photobucket.com\/albums\/s4\/barbkaus\/Waimea%20Valley%20Botanical%20Gardens\/Beginning%20May%2010\/Beginning%201-1-11\/eternal-clock-by-robert-van-der-steeg1-1-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"times new roman,times\">(c) barbara kausteklis 8-15-12<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"times new roman,times\">Written for today&#8217;s<br \/>\n&#8220;Wonderful Wednesday Meet and Greet.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"times new roman,times\">http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/94558\/wonderful-wednesday-welcoming-wonderful-poets\/<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"times new roman,times\">Thanks always for visiting my blog<br \/>\nand for finding this piece<br \/>\nand the others I&#8217;ve posted<br \/>\nhere on Friendburst<br \/>\nover the past couple of years.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"times new roman,times\">Big Hugs.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"times new roman,times\">~barb~<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUST SOMETIMES Sometimes, just sometimes, I am able to find the words to express what happens to be within my heart at the moment. I find myself arriving to each new day at dawn with a sense of anticipation of what I might find just around the corner of my mind and my heart, fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,2,29],"tags":[63,159,4,4192,64,4805],"class_list":["post-94599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-lifestyles","category-other","category-poems","tag-barbara-k","tag-cpc","tag-poetry","tag-thanks","tag-thanksgiving","tag-wonderful-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94599","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=94599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}