{"id":19526,"date":"2014-05-08T19:57:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T00:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19526"},"modified":"2014-05-10T19:33:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T00:33:49","slug":"the-way-is-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19526","title":{"rendered":"The way is clear"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tao te Ching – the way – the method – the path. <\/p>\n

Back in 2011, I sat on the stairs on the Andalusian coast of Spain and watched ants<\/a> crawl up the wall and form a question mark. It was uncanny how the universe was painting my confusion for me to see it – detached and unexpectedly. <\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

Yesterday, at aikido class – did I mention I am taking aikido? – there was a framed drawing of a question mark that looked exactly like the one the ants drew – uncanny you say? Well isn’t it all done by the same hand, I say.<\/p>\n

Peaceful resistance – that’s what aikido is all about and for the life of me, I didn’t know what to expect, and now I can’t wait to go practice – it’s exhilarating and meditative all in one movement. <\/p>\n

But when I think back to what the summer of 2011 was for me – I was going around and up the wrung<\/a> and out I came into the vast new world with all the blood letting I thought behind me. <\/p>\n

Little did I know it was about to get real – career, home, partner, hair – and in losing everything, I found me. I was under all those identifiers. <\/p>\n

Falling down and getting up again never felt so good. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tao te Ching – the way – the method – the path. Back in 2011, I sat on the stairs on the Andalusian coast of Spain and watched ants crawl up the wall and form a question mark. It was uncanny how the universe was painting my confusion for me to see it – detached and unexpectedly. Yesterday, at aikido class – did I mention I am taking aikido? – there was a framed… <\/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-19526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-54W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19526","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=19526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19537,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19526\/revisions\/19537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}