{"id":13389,"date":"2012-03-14T21:52:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T03:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=13389"},"modified":"2016-05-02T09:45:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T15:45:18","slug":"shadow-line-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=13389","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Line Approaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Woodpecker Moon<\/p>\n<p>Not sure how serious, but I can feel the clouds rolling in, a definite darkening of the inner horizon. \u00a0Missed a call tonight for the Sierra Club legislative committee through some technological foul up. \u00a0Maybe on my part.<\/p>\n<p>Sorting through my fear about exposing my writing to the light of day. \u00a0I know this needs to change and change can trigger a melancholic episode, too.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t have to be reasons when the light begins to dim. \u00a0I feel heavy, slow, molasses on the floor, thick curtains to push through. \u00a0Could be the unseasonable weather. \u00a0I know it seems weird, but I really like the cold and the gradual procession of seasons. \u00a0This tempering and sudden switching feels somehow wrong to me.<\/p>\n<p>As I said the other day, I know I can&#8217;t change the weather, so adapting to it makes sense. \u00a0Enjoy the beautiful day! \u00a0Sunshine and warm weather. \u00a0What&#8217;s not to like? \u00a0But a part of me, a strong part, wants March back in late winter.<\/p>\n<p>Or, maybe, I feel this way because I&#8217;m becoming melancholic.<\/p>\n<p>The melancholy is a family thing, a genetic inheritance. \u00a0The bipolar gene runs in my family, I&#8217;ve said it before here. \u00a0I&#8217;m not bipolar, but I have these melancholic episodes from time to time, sometimes with little or no trigger.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Woodpecker Moon Not sure how serious, but I can feel the clouds rolling in, a definite darkening of the inner horizon. \u00a0Missed a call tonight for the Sierra Club legislative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=13389\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shadow Line Approaching<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,14,3967],"tags":[612],"class_list":["post-13389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-feelings-2","tag-melancholy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36282,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13389\/revisions\/36282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}