{"id":5169,"date":"2009-10-03T11:51:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T16:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2009-10-03T11:51:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T16:51:06","slug":"enjoy-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=5169","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy every day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met a man the other day who I have been speaking to for many years by phone but have never seen in person. We were at a bustling bar in New York and I was sipping a glass of champagne and we were just chit chatting the way people do who have been talking about a subject for a long time but hardly ever talking about the things that matter most to a person. I learned that he found a little piece of Valhalla 25 years ago and he built himself a getaway house, which had always been a dream of his. I told him about the LaLa and the all the trials and tribulations that led to my Valhalla dream.<\/p>\n<p>I sent him a photo of the bayou as seen from the dining room when I got back to New Orleans and he said he was surprised as it looked so pristine and he had expected mossy trees and spooky shadows.<\/p>\n<p>I said, we have that too but it&#8217;s in the park a few blocks down.<\/p>\n<p>But the last email he sent was the one that resonated most. He said, &#8220;Rachel, Enjoy Every Day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5170\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=5170\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/dining_room_.jpg?fit=449%2C672\" data-orig-size=\"449,672\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D200&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1185466126&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dining_room_\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/dining_room_.jpg?fit=449%2C672\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5170\" title=\"dining_room_\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/dining_room_.jpg?resize=449%2C672\" alt=\"dining_room_\" width=\"449\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/dining_room_.jpg?w=449 449w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/dining_room_.jpg?resize=200%2C300 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met a man the other day who I have been speaking to for many years by phone but have never seen in person. We were at a bustling bar in New York and I was sipping a glass of champagne and we were just chit chatting the way people do who have been talking about a subject for a long time but hardly ever talking about the things that matter most to a person.&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-5169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-1ln","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169","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=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5171,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions\/5171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}