{"id":9324,"date":"2011-02-04T22:52:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T04:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9324"},"modified":"2016-05-14T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T22:25:15","slug":"transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9324","title":{"rendered":"Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\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 Bridgit Moon<\/p>\n<p>On occasion the Woolly retreats have transformed me, given me energy for a project I had not imagined or that I had set aside.\u00a0 When I talked about Missing tonight (my novel underway since sometime last year), I got feedback, positive feedback about my idea.<\/p>\n<p>As it played in my head, a conviction grew, as it had in other years, before the Pilgrimage work, for example, that I had to get back to the writing, to Missing, to finish it and send it out.\u00a0 Perhaps, too, I will\u00a0 unbox those others, long dormant, spruce them up and send them out into the world again.<\/p>\n<p>Here I was seen as myself, but also as writer, as fiction creator and that reflection back has warmed the heart and the hearth, both the precincts of Bridgit.\u00a0 So the Goddess has come here, in this her holy week, to inflame and inspire me.\u00a0 I will return to a new resolve.\u00a0 Finish Missing and market the others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\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 Bridgit Moon On occasion the Woolly retreats have transformed me, given me energy for a project I had not imagined or that I had set aside.\u00a0 When I talked about Missing tonight (my novel underway since sometime last year), I got feedback, positive feedback about my idea. As it played in my head, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9324\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transformation<\/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":[10,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woolly-mammoths","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324","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=9324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40896,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324\/revisions\/40896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}