{"id":688,"date":"2020-08-08T15:14:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T15:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=688"},"modified":"2020-08-08T19:45:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T19:45:26","slug":"we2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/08\/08\/we2\/","title":{"rendered":"We2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"317\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-8-2020-Of-Consequence-1-1024x317.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-8-2020-Of-Consequence-1-1024x317.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-8-2020-Of-Consequence-1-300x93.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-8-2020-Of-Consequence-1-768x238.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-8-2020-Of-Consequence-1-604x187.jpg 604w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-8-2020-Of-Consequence-1.jpg 1084w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/Of%20Consequence%20-%20We2.m4a?_t=1596901398\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.3\"><br><strong><em>Of Consequence (We2)<\/em><\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>We are better, together, than apart.<br>Our consequence and what we can<br>accomplish magnifies, when we join:\u00a0<br>diminishes, when we separate.<br>Two are better than one.\u00a0<br>United, we stand.\u00a0<br>Divided: crash, fall, burn.<br>\u00a0<br>Singularly, we might achieve remarkable things.<br>But, miracles awaken when we join.<br>You are never alone ~ we are here, too.<br>\u00a0<br>We can think too much: feel too little.<br>Lonely numbers abide, quietly desperate.<br>\u00a0<br>We can fight our intentions ~ wrestle them to the ground.<br>Nail them to the wall, so they won\u2019t spring after us.\u00a0 That works;<br>if we\u2019re brain dead, heart dead, Spirit dead.<br>It\u2019s those damn walls we build ~ all that effort and,<br>still, no protection.\u00a0 We are not brain, heart, or Spirit dead.<br>\u00a0<br>We cannot chisel emotions in stone. To emote implies action:<br>movement.\u00a0 Our intentions circle their wagons and right<br>when we believe we\u2019ve outsmarted them: the universe shifts,<br>a light goes on, the veil lifts, a Truth becomes evident.<br>\u00a0<br>We are better, together, than we are, alone.<br>\u00a0<br>Nothing grows in a vacuum.<br>It is simply a vacuum.<br>Waiting to be filled.<br>Awaiting fulfilment.<br>\u00a0<br>To be ~ of consequence.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>Barbara Helvey Hughes, 2017\/2020<br>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}