{"id":13478,"date":"2012-03-20T22:06:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T04:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=13478"},"modified":"2016-05-02T09:40:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T15:40:18","slug":"leave-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=13478","title":{"rendered":"Leave Taking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \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>At the dentist this morning I told them Kate and I planned to use a dentist closer to our home here in Andover. \u00a0This was what got me thinking about leave taking. \u00a0We&#8217;ve been with Centennial Dental for over 22 years and making the change was not a trivial decision.<\/p>\n<p>In part we switched because our new dental insurance doesn&#8217;t include them, reason enough for sure; but, this was more a decision about not wanting a trip to the dentist to take three hours or so. \u00a0Centennial Dental is in Edina near the Macy&#8217;s Homestore. \u00a0They are great dentists. \u00a0That&#8217;s why we stayed so long.<\/p>\n<p>After that, a nap, and then off to Champlain High School and my third and last, for now, class on the Adobe Creative Suite. \u00a0This class is on Adobe InDesign. I&#8217;m cranking up to sell my books on Amazon, through the Kindle store. \u00a0InDesign will let me format my books myself and save them in a file congenial with the Kindle operating system, perhaps others, too.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the <em>verdammt<\/em>\u00a0melancholy. \u00a0After the dentist I drove right at a car coming from my left. \u00a0I missed her, but my attention was not there. \u00a0Vacillating now between acting as if I&#8217;m fine and seeing if that will lift my spirits or biting the bullet, calling my old analyst John Desteian and my gp Tom Davis, take arms against this sky of clouds and by opposing them grow more cheerful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \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 At the dentist this morning I told them Kate and I planned to use a dentist closer to our home here in Andover. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=13478\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leave Taking<\/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":[60,3967,3996],"tags":[671,4017,612],"class_list":["post-13478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-feelings-2","category-third-phase-2","tag-dentist","tag-indesign","tag-melancholy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13478","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=13478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36267,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13478\/revisions\/36267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}