{"id":561,"date":"2020-07-21T20:53:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T20:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=561"},"modified":"2020-07-21T20:56:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T20:56:57","slug":"known-when-where-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/07\/21\/known-when-where-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Known? When? Where? How?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"505\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-21-2020-Barb-1978-with-her-Fiat-X19-edit-1024x505.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-21-2020-Barb-1978-with-her-Fiat-X19-edit-1024x505.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-21-2020-Barb-1978-with-her-Fiat-X19-edit-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-21-2020-Barb-1978-with-her-Fiat-X19-edit-768x379.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-21-2020-Barb-1978-with-her-Fiat-X19-edit-548x270.jpg 548w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-21-2020-Barb-1978-with-her-Fiat-X19-edit.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.3\"><br><strong><em>Known<\/em><\/strong> by Barbara Helvey Hughes<br>\u00a0<br>This morning, I awoke thinking of you. \u00a0I do not<br>know you ~ not in this life, not really.\u00a0 You seem<br>familiar and so, these past few months it has been<br>an easy road we have walked as we talk, share and<br>become known to one another.\u00a0 How much residual<br>energy do we carry from life to life?\u00a0 I do not know.\u00a0<br>But, once in a while, someone enters my life,<br>whom I recognize.\u00a0 I have stopped ignoring it.\u00a0 These<br>meets are important and I have vowed to acknowledge<br>them.\u00a0 It is not the face or voice or anything visibly organic<br>I can point to and say, \u201cAh, yes, I remember you!\u201d\u00a0 No,<br>it is far subtler, less pinpointable: a familiar energy.\u00a0<br>People often smile, shake their heads ~ think I am some<br>sort of bimbo.\u00a0 I am not.\u00a0 These recognitions are genuine.\u00a0<br>Known.<br>\u00a0<br>And, so, this morning when I awakened it was with<br>gratitude, because yesterday\u2019s nightmares lingered<br>as I fell off the edge of my supposed reality, last<br>eve, and I was skittish to enter back into deep sleep:<br>needed rest.\u00a0 Then, you appeared and guided me<br>through my maze of hopes and fears and all I<br>recalled, upon waking, was soft laughter and a<br>calm sense ~ trust.\u00a0 I felt emotionally safe as I<br>wandered back to here.\u00a0 We all find one another<br>at the most perfect moment, don\u2019t we? We arrive<br>from out there, amongst all those billions of souls<br>and we may not even understand we are searching.<br>And, yet, we find one another.\u00a0 Again and again.\u00a0<br>Less chance, in this technological age, than in ages,<br>past.\u00a0 Now, we are energy connected by energy.<br>Known.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>8-7-2017\/ with edit 7-26-2018 11:15am\/7-21-2020<br>For Peter ~ Love is the language spoken here.<br>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep. There you are. 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