{"id":20790,"date":"2015-06-09T10:56:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T15:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=20790"},"modified":"2015-07-15T14:44:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T19:44:49","slug":"entering-the-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=20790","title":{"rendered":"Entering the cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tin had a playdate with some friends at the pool and so I had a couple of hours to shake off my heaviness. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0819.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20791\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=20791\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0819.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1433616861&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0063694267515924&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0819\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0819.jpg?fit=640%2C480\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0819.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"IMG_0819\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0819.jpg?w=3264 3264w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0819.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0819.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0819.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0819.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A friend took me to the French Quarter to amble around. We stopped in Exodus Goods, a shop owned by Solange, which is tucked inconspicuously on Conti street a few feet from Decatur. There on the counter sat these spiral earrings calling my name. The artist calls them &#8220;entering the cosmos&#8221; and what they reminded me of is Flower&#8217;s philosophy that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3989\" target=\"_blank\">life is a spiral<\/a> and with growth, we move up to the next <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=17096\" target=\"_blank\">rung<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>$35 and I walked out with them on my ears. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0821.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20792\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=20792\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0821.jpg?fit=2448%2C2448\" data-orig-size=\"2448,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0083333333333333&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0821\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0821.jpg?fit=640%2C640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0821.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" alt=\"IMG_0821\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0821.jpg?w=2448 2448w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0821.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0821.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0821.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0821.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0821.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friend said, &#8220;They were made for you. Only a bald woman could wear those earrings.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>More importantly, they remind me that life is a spiral in a different way as well; when we find ourselves in a storm it&#8217;s good to remember this too shall pass. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tin had a playdate with some friends at the pool and so I had a couple of hours to shake off my heaviness. A friend took me to the French Quarter to amble around. We stopped in Exodus Goods, a shop owned by Solange, which is tucked inconspicuously on Conti street a few feet from Decatur. There on the counter sat these spiral earrings calling my name. The artist calls them &#8220;entering the cosmos&#8221; and&hellip; <\/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-20790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-5pk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20790","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=20790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20886,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20790\/revisions\/20886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}