{"id":5850,"date":"2018-03-18T08:38:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T12:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2018-03-18T21:37:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T01:37:02","slug":"being-quiet-and-learning-to-breathe-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=5850","title":{"rendered":"Being Quiet and Learning to Breathe Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, I need to be quiet. That&#8217;s my excuse for silence here. I can be a talker but recently I&#8217;ve needed to <em>listen<\/em> to the wind, the birds, the waves and an often elusive silence. I&#8217;ve been cultivating quiet inside of me even as I hear the endless hum of cars on the nearby highway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?attachment_id=5852\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5852\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5852\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Swirling-Sea.jpg?resize=640%2C853\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Swirling-Sea.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Swirling-Sea.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Swirling-Sea.jpg?w=1320 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Swirling-Sea.jpg?w=1980 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past month, I have started paragraphs of posts and then abandoned them as I wrestle with what this blog is for me. It&#8217;s personal yet not my journal. I write memoir and that requires raw honesty and so in this space where I have a kind community of readers and fellow bloggers, I should work on that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?attachment_id=5853\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5853\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5853\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Tree-down.jpg?resize=640%2C853\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Tree-down.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Tree-down.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Tree-down.jpg?w=1320 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Tree-down.jpg?w=1980 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had some dramatically rough patches but that&#8217;s just the stuff of life, right? Everyone has a story and together we&#8217;re here in a sea of waves of sadness and joy churning away on this remarkable planet spinning through the universe. Somehow we all do our best to hold on for the ride.\u00a0I&#8217;m determined to live this downward slope of my life in as much joy as I can muster. I aspire to not be burdened by the past nor to worry about the future because it is only in the present that breath exists. And I&#8217;m filling my lungs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, I need to be quiet. That&#8217;s my excuse for silence here. I can be a talker but recently I&#8217;ve needed to listen to the wind, the birds, the waves and an often elusive silence. I&#8217;ve been cultivating quiet inside of me even as I hear the endless hum of cars on the nearby highway. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=5850\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Being Quiet and Learning to Breathe Again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grief-and-healing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPzTS-1wm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5855,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions\/5855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}