{"id":829,"date":"2020-09-20T18:58:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T18:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=829"},"modified":"2020-09-20T19:14:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T19:14:19","slug":"829","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/09\/20\/829\/","title":{"rendered":"Interconnectedness of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-20-2020-Interconnectedness-of-Us-2-1024x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-20-2020-Interconnectedness-of-Us-2-1024x226.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-20-2020-Interconnectedness-of-Us-2-300x66.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-20-2020-Interconnectedness-of-Us-2-768x170.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-20-2020-Interconnectedness-of-Us-2-1536x340.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-20-2020-Interconnectedness-of-Us-2-604x134.jpg 604w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-20-2020-Interconnectedness-of-Us-2.jpg 1560w\" 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\/Interconnectedness%20of%20Us.m4a?_t=1600627612\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.3\"><strong><em>Interconnectedness of Us<\/em><\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>A feather flutters, silent, to the ground<br>as my heart beats a message, loud and clear.<br>Racing rivers shout joy, without a sound.<br>Thoughts spark matter into a new frontier<br>and I search for the ones ascribed to me.<br>\u00a0<br>Dumped like a puzzle from a cardboard box<br>I know the pieces fit, but can\u2019t see how.<br>We race through forests to June\u2019s equinox<br>defending promises, keeping our Vow<br>and we hunt for the ones we sense came back.<br>\u00a0<br>Up runs the hawk into indigo\u2019s sky<br>down past the drowning of fields, runs the stream:<br>sweeps through hushed valleys releasing its sigh<br>embroidering sanctity in our dreams.<br>Can we recognize we are lost again?<br>\u00a0<br>Brave synchronicities hallmark our Way.<br>Striking for Truth ~ our singular intent.<br>Many surrender; others drift, astray.<br>I feel them let go: ending their torment<br>and with each loss, escapes a part of me.<br>\u00a0<br>Some few endure ~ some feel attractions pull<br>pull like a magnet: \u00a0will the fuller felt?<br>None can make the felt, who loosens the wool.<br>None can play the hand unless it is dealt.<br>And we will conclude as it is written.<br>\u00a0<br>Each puzzle piece, a lesson, sound and true<br>not always pleasant ~ we get what we need.<br>Learn to watch for ego as you pass through.<br>Learn to release what\u2019s not, this time, for you.<br>Never recoil from those rivers of tears<br>and always embrace those who make you brave<br>and always acknowledge your darkest fears<br>and never care how the others behave.<br>\u00a0<br>Don\u2019t despair if your courage drifts away.<br>We each will find the ones who need to stay.<br>We bask in the interconnectedness<br>of us.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>by Barbara Helvey Hughes, 9-17-2017 finished 9-20-2020<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":831,"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-829","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\/829","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=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}