{"id":1607,"date":"2008-12-30T22:04:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T04:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2008-12-30T22:04:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T04:04:11","slug":"home-and-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1607","title":{"rendered":"Home and Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/winter-solstice-08cbe2.jpg\" title=\"winter-solstice-08cbe2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/winter-solstice-08cbe2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"winter-solstice-08cbe2.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>1\u00a0 bar steep rise 30.42\u00a0 WSW0\u00a0\u00a0 windchill 1\u00a0 Winter<\/p>\n<p>Waxing Crescent of the Wolf Moon<\/p>\n<p>Oh, man.\u00a0 To get the trash out I had to blow the snow.\u00a0 Underneath the snow is ice.\u00a0 The snowblower with its knobby tires spun out and the only reason I stayed on my feet was the firm grip I had on the snowblower.\u00a0 Never before had taking out the trash had a hint of danger to it.\u00a0 Tonight it did.\u00a0 After the snowblower and I went slip sliding away, I still had to roll both the trash containers down the long slope of our driveway.\u00a0 Risky business.\u00a0 Made it ok.<\/p>\n<p>In doing research for Homecomer I looked back over many of my sermons for Groveland and noticed that I&#8217;ve written several that deal with home as an idea.\u00a0 Home has a certain poignancy for me, since my estrangement from my father and his subsequent marriage to a woman who made the problem worse.\u00a0 The town and the house where I grew up seem faraway to me, as if the warm and comfortable feelings associated with home got eaten away by the acids of my family quarrel.<\/p>\n<p>The rightness or wrongness of it all has long been moot, yet the hollowness with which I&#8217;m left when it comes to home and nuclear family must have lead me to consider this theme.\u00a0 It is a rich concept, one with so many layers and metaphorical possibilities that I have not tired of it.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps out of this search of mine for home I&#8217;ll\u00a0 find ideas useful to others.\u00a0 The current environmental crisis both has its roots in and is made more intractable by our American sense of mobility, of looking over the next horizon for a new frontier.\u00a0 This makes it hard to learn about the home that greets us each evening.\u00a0 Well, more on that in Homecomer.<\/p>\n<p>The cold has come again and that will make the sleeping even better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1\u00a0 bar steep rise 30.42\u00a0 WSW0\u00a0\u00a0 windchill 1\u00a0 Winter Waxing Crescent of the Wolf Moon Oh, man.\u00a0 To get the trash out I had to blow the snow.\u00a0 Underneath the snow is ice.\u00a0 The snowblower with its knobby tires spun out and the only reason I stayed on my feet was the firm grip I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1607\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home and Heart<\/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":[14,243,3],"tags":[403,1109,1193,1332,28],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-memories","category-weather-climate","tag-america","tag-dad","tag-home","tag-ice","tag-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","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=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}