{"id":8084,"date":"2010-10-16T12:33:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T18:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8084"},"modified":"2010-10-16T12:33:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T18:33:29","slug":"8084","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8084","title":{"rendered":"Grounded"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fall\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Harvest Moon<\/p>\n

As many readers know, my sister and brother live in Southeast Asia, Mary in Singapore and Mark in Bangkok.\u00a0 It’s different for me.\u00a0 Kate and I have lived in Andover, in the same house with \"potato670050210\"the same land, for 16 years. I’ve driven the same car for 15 years and Kate’s driven the same truck for 10.\u00a0 I’ve now been married to Kate much longer than the total of my first two marriages:\u00a0 22 years versus 15.\u00a0 I’ve lived in Andover longer than anywhere else:\u00a0 Oklahoma-2 years, Alexandria-15 years.\u00a0 I’ve lived in this house far longer than any other residence.<\/p>\n

This came up today when Kate and I headed out to lunch.\u00a0 I feel a part of this land, as if it’s part of me and I of it.\u00a0 But.\u00a0 I don’t feel the same about Andover.\u00a0 There’s no here, here.\u00a0 I have no memories of school here or my children in school.\u00a0 My political involvement has been limited, recently to being an election judge.\u00a0 Andover doesn’t feel like home to me, though 3122 153rd Ave NW does.<\/p>\n

You might say I live a grounded life, if not close to the soil, certainly in partnership with it.\u00a0 Perhaps the uncertainty and turmoil in my late high school and immediate post-high school years lead me to seek some stasis, I don’t know.\u00a0 What I do know is that with Kate and with this land I have made a home.\u00a0 And I’m glad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fall\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Harvest Moon As many readers know, my sister and brother live in Southeast Asia, Mary in Singapore and Mark in Bangkok.\u00a0 It’s different for me.\u00a0 Kate and I have lived in Andover, in the same house with the same land, for 16 years. I’ve driven the same car for 15 years and Kate’s … Continue reading Grounded<\/span> →<\/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":[65,9,246,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-great-work","category-minnesota","category-our-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084","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=8084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8087,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084\/revisions\/8087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}