{"id":13343,"date":"2011-08-31T00:07:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T05:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=13343"},"modified":"2011-08-31T00:09:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T05:09:14","slug":"flowers-in-her-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=13343","title":{"rendered":"Flowers in her hair"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning started out funky – I was stiff from having spent the night on a friend’s couch and was freezing cold since the fog had rolled in and had just not rolled back out. I walked over to sign in at the conference and stopped at Cafe de la Presse for a decaf latte in a bowl, which was nice and hot and felt so good in my ice cold hands. Really folks, it’s August and i was wearing gloves. No lie. Thank god I found them in my coat pockets when I was but a block down the street and freezing to death.<\/p>\n

The chatter in my head was rising to a grand crescendo having everything to do with the kind of talk that makes you want to curl up in a little ball and roll off a cliff. I kept trying to quiet it (them) but they were unrelenting.<\/p>\n

Then I saw an email come across my Blackberry, a client I’ve worked with for many years had wrote the nicest recommendation for me on Linked In – out of the blue – and I was taken aback by his words. Then I met a friend and colleague for lunch and felt bathed in the light of being with someone who feels like family.<\/p>\n

Later, i was passing a church in the car with another friend and the marquis read, “The Structure of Truth and Love” and I had a confluence of events, past and present, traipse across my mind’s eye, as I was with a friend getting a divorce, had just been speaking about another friend in the throes of a divorce, and had just learned my friend’s sister had divorced, and then ran into an old San Francisco friend who had just divorced. All of these were relationships that I would have bet on not just a few years ago. I thought about some of the marriages I would have have bet against and they remain intact – very odd.<\/p>\n

As I walked down Union Street with my friend and sought out a place to stop and have a cocktail to talk, I stumbled upon buckets of dahlias that were so perfect, they looked fake, or impossibly real, and I realized right then and there their perfection was based on their fragility. And a marriage might be perfect but that doesn’t mean it will last.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning started out funky – I was stiff from having spent the night on a friend’s couch and was freezing cold since the fog had rolled in and had just not rolled back out. I walked over to sign in at the conference and stopped at Cafe de la Presse for a decaf latte in a bowl, which was nice and hot and felt so good in my ice cold hands. Really folks, it’s… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-3td","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13346,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions\/13346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}