{"id":3910,"date":"2011-06-16T15:40:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T19:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2011-06-16T15:40:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T19:40:50","slug":"dangling-my-feet-in-the-river-on-a-breezy-late-spring-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3910","title":{"rendered":"Dangling My Feet in the River on a Breezy Late Spring Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

For most of my life I had no idea I was an artist.\u00a0 I’ve loved words since I was young, but I certainly hadn’t seen them as\u00a0a medium for\u00a0my own artistic expression.\u00a0 Similarly, for most of my life I thought the voice in my head,\u00a0my\u00a0ongoing verbalized descriptions and reactions\u00a0to life around me, was only speaking\u00a0empty, idle thoughts meandering through my brain.\u00a0\u00a0I never dreamed it might be\u00a0an idea river<\/a> swollen with the content of my own creative voice interpreting the world around me.\u00a0 Over the last four years, I have come to recognize that I am an artist, my medium is (mostly) words, and those thoughts in my head are far from idle.<\/p>\n

I never leave home without pen, notebook and camera, the tools I\u00a0use to give expression to my creativity.\u00a0 Writing in The Life Literary<\/em> for six months now, I have not wanted to miss anything the creative idea river brought my way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today after a lunchtime walk, I sat in a favorite park (next to the landscaped area I have dubbed The Union Center<\/a>) on a bench in the shade of a tall pin-oak tree.\u00a0 I looked out over a large, open green lawn in the middle of the garden areas and felt a cool June breeze caress my face.\u00a0 I had at first intended to jot a few things down, a bit of flotsam and jetsam that had flowed into my consciousness as I walked.\u00a0 Instead, I sat there and simply enjoyed listening to my thoughts and ideas.\u00a0 I played with my own\u00a0creative voice, not writing a thing.\u00a0 It was like dipping my feet in the river with no other goal than to enjoy it.\u00a0 Creativity for its own sake and, at that moment, for my own pleasure.<\/p>\n

Simply pausing to\u00a0cool off on the banks of the Idea River satisfied and left me at peace and relaxed.\u00a0 I wished for a blanket\u00a0 to spread under a tree so that, lulled by the music of passing traffic, the murmur of lunchtime voices, and the nearby fountain, I could take a nap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For most of my life I had no idea I was an artist.\u00a0 I’ve loved words since I was young, but I certainly hadn’t seen them as\u00a0a medium for\u00a0my own artistic expression.\u00a0 Similarly, for most of my life I thought … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155,13],"tags":[588,587,255,586,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3930,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions\/3930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}