The force is strong in you Luke – I feel that is what my aunt and uncles and others keep telling me. You’re strong. Well this year is aging me more than Katrina, more than my divorce, more than a lot of other things because my mother is dying, I’m trying to adopt a child, my work is all consuming and I can’t seem to stop the world for one moment and take a breath.<\/p>\n
I am grateful every day that I look out at the bayou, I’m happy that I am healthy, and I’m grateful for all the support I have around me from T to all of my friends and family.<\/p>\n
But anyone tell you that their parent is dying, you better believe there is a deep well of sadness inside of them. Anyone tell you that it is frightening trying to have\/adopt a child, you better believe there is fear and excitement that alternate so rapidly you can’t distinguish one from the other.<\/p>\n
I’m blessed to have this one moment to say thanks for all the good things BUT can’t we just take a breath here, for one moment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The force is strong in you Luke – I feel that is what my aunt and uncles and others keep telling me. You’re strong. Well this year is aging me more than Katrina, more than my divorce, more than a lot of other things because my mother is dying, I’m trying to adopt a child, my work is all consuming and I can’t seem to stop the world for one moment and take a breath.… <\/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-5159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-1ld","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5160,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions\/5160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}