{"id":799,"date":"2008-07-11T17:35:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T23:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2008-07-11T22:54:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T04:54:37","slug":"one-thunder-storm-of-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"One Thunder Storm of a Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>88\u00a0 bar steep fall 29.48\u00a0 3mph SE dew-point 73\u00a0\u00a0 Summer, hot and sticky<\/p>\n<p>Waxing Gibbous Thunder Moon<\/p>\n<p>Passion.\u00a0 A violent word.\u00a0 One thunder storm of a word.\u00a0 An Angel Falls and Victoria Falls of a word.\u00a0 A 500 mile race, first-lap pile up in the first curve word. \u00a0 <font size=\"-1\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p>from the Latin, patior: <em>to bear<\/em>, <em>support<\/em>, <em>undergo<\/em>, <em>suffer<\/em>, <em>endure<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Latin words bad, anglo-saxon words good.\u00a0 To bear.\u00a0 To burn.\u00a0 To bind.<\/p>\n<p>Buddha cautions us against passion.\u00a0 Desire.\u00a0 It binds us to our weird.\u00a0 Throws straps around our hands and feet, lashes us to the pillar of the material world.\u00a0 To move toward nirvana, extinction, we must move away from passion.\u00a0 Eliminate desire.\u00a0 Exist in the moment.\u00a0 The self, the passionate self confined to a moment, gone in an instance.<\/p>\n<p>The world for now exists in me in two:\u00a0 the passionate one who would bear burdens, burn with the fire of action, bound to this world for I love this world.<\/p>\n<p>The calm one who watches.\u00a0 Observes.\u00a0 Lets things pass by.\u00a0 Become old or yesterday.\u00a0 Who lives right now.\u00a0 Here typing, interactive with the screen and the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>These two have me locked in an inner dance, twisting up then down.\u00a0 Around a helix shaped stairway down into the my soul and up into the Self.\u00a0 Opening a gothic iron gate into heaven.\u00a0 Wielding a hammer to crack apart the bonds of oppression and injustice.\u00a0 A whirling, sitting dervish in my own body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>88\u00a0 bar steep fall 29.48\u00a0 3mph SE dew-point 73\u00a0\u00a0 Summer, hot and sticky Waxing Gibbous Thunder Moon Passion.\u00a0 A violent word.\u00a0 One thunder storm of a word.\u00a0 An Angel Falls and Victoria Falls of a word.\u00a0 A 500 mile race, first-lap pile up in the first curve word. \u00a0 from the Latin, patior: to bear, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=799\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Thunder Storm of a Word<\/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":[14,100,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-politics","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","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=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}