{"id":2433,"date":"2017-10-18T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T04:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:53","slug":"oct-18-the-connecticut-shore-while-leaves-change-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/10\/18\/oct-18-the-connecticut-shore-while-leaves-change-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct 18 &#8211; The Connecticut shore while leaves change color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For me retreat offers stillness and a soft pace for breathing. \u00a0 One of my neices sent me a new poet, for me that is, Lisa J Starr\u2019s\u00a0<u>Mad With Yellow<\/u>\u00a0was published in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>blessings<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0My Inner Voice Speaks to Me in Mid-October\u201cListen, dear one,\u201d it whispers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou only think you have<\/p>\n<p>forgotten the impossible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Go now, to that marsh beyond<\/p>\n<p>Fresh Pond and consider how the red<\/p>\n<p>burgeons into crimson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Go see how it&#8217;s been preparing<\/p>\n<p>forever for today. Notice the stirring,<\/p>\n<p>silent beauty of bog;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>watch how summer lingers at the door.<\/p>\n<p>Get there as the heron makes its lacy landing<\/p>\n<p>and consider, then, the possibility<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>that for ten thousand years, that sleek,<\/p>\n<p>white whisper of bird has been waiting for you<\/p>\n<p>to arrive \u2014 so it could land just like that,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>just then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/10\/Lisa-Starr.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2434\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/10\/Lisa-Starr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/10\/Lisa-Starr.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/10\/Lisa-Starr-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me retreat offers stillness and a soft pace for breathing. \u00a0 One of my neices sent me a new poet, for me that is, Lisa J Starr\u2019s\u00a0Mad With Yellow\u00a0was published in 2008. blessings john sj Today\u2019s Post \u00a0\u00a0My Inner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/10\/18\/oct-18-the-connecticut-shore-while-leaves-change-color\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}