{"id":1430,"date":"2008-11-21T08:46:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T14:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2008-11-21T08:46:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T14:46:03","slug":"stories-told-by-mother-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1430","title":{"rendered":"Stories Told By Mother Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9!\u00a0 bar steady 30.57\u00a0 2mph WNW\u00a0 windchill 9\u00a0 Samhain<\/p>\n<p>Last Quarter of the Dark Moon<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?&#8221; &#8211; T. S. Eliot<\/p>\n<p>When I ponder the amount of life I give to considering my weight, I wonder what Life I lose in obsessing.\u00a0\u00a0 Fat or thin we all die.\u00a0 There may be a difference in quantity, may be, but what of the quality?\u00a0 The constant examination of ourselves and our bodies for signs of health (ok, my constant examination) may be just a shadowed manifestation of the fear of death.\u00a0 How will our world&#8217;s end?\u00a0 Not with a bang, but a whimper<\/p>\n<p>We live in an age awash in information and too few of us take the time to shape the information into knowledge, the useful form of information.\u00a0 Even fewer of us take the knowledge we have earned, then sit with it in patience and compassion long enough to gain wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to a world where the most accessible wisdom, the stories told by mother earth right outside wherever you are, return gently to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9!\u00a0 bar steady 30.57\u00a0 2mph WNW\u00a0 windchill 9\u00a0 Samhain Last Quarter of the Dark Moon &#8220;Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?&#8221; &#8211; T. S. Eliot When I ponder the amount of life I give &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1430\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stories Told By Mother Earth<\/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":[909],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myth-and-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","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=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}