{"id":862,"date":"2006-01-30T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=862"},"modified":"2015-01-26T12:49:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T20:49:58","slug":"mindful-of-teachers-all-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/mindful-of-teachers-all-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindful of teachers all around"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good old whiskey river<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mindful
\nEvery day
\nI see or hear
\nsomething
\nthat more or less
\nkills me
\nwith delight,
\nthat leaves me
\nlike a needle
\nin the haystack
\nof light.
\nIt was what I was born for –
\nto look, to listen,
\nto lose myself
\ninside this soft world –
\nto instruct myself
\nover and over
\nin joy,
\nand acclamation.
\nNor am I talking
\nabout the exceptional,
\nthe fearful, the dreadful,
\nthe very extravagant –
\nbut of the ordinary,
\nthe common, the very drab,
\nthe daily presentations.
\nOh, good scholar,
\nI say to myself,
\nhow can you help
\nbut grow wise
\nwith such teachings
\nas these –
\nthe untrimmable light
\nof the world,
\nthe ocean’s shine,
\nthe prayers that are made
\nout of grass?
\n– Mary Oliver<\/div>\n

Yesterday my five year old son and I went for a walk in a remote and wild part of our island to a point where the waves riding the southeasterlies up the Strait of Georgia break on a basalt reef littered with driftwood. And in that place, in that moment, with rain washing our faces and wind lashing at our ears, we talked about seeing with the close-seeing eye that watches where we step and seeing with the long-seeing eye that knows where we are in the forest. So turning, we made our way back through the trees with our close-seeing eyes and long-seeing eyes both tuned. We learned that it is important to stay aware of our feet below us and the turns in the forest path ahead of us, and that getting lost is a result of losing the manner of both modalities.<\/p>\n

Such a trove of teachings in a simple, slippery path on a rainy day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good old whiskey river: Mindful Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. It was what I was born for – to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world – to instruct myself over and over in joy, and acclamation. Nor am I talking about the exceptional, the fearful, the dreadful, the very extravagant – but of the ordinary, the common, the very drab, the daily presentations. Oh, good scholar, I say to myself, how can you help but …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[10,56,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","category-featured","category-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-dU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4514,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/4514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}