{"id":957,"date":"2020-10-24T15:36:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T15:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=957"},"modified":"2020-10-24T18:38:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T18:38:58","slug":"story-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/10\/24\/story-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"Story\/Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1012\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10-24-2020-Story-witness-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10-24-2020-Story-witness-2.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10-24-2020-Story-witness-2-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10-24-2020-Story-witness-2-768x272.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10-24-2020-Story-witness-2-604x214.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/Story%20Witness.m4a?_t=1603564699\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.5\"><strong><em>Story\/Witness<\/em><\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>It doesn\u2019t matter who you think you are ~ we are<br>one and the same.\u00a0 We are connected on a far<br>deeper level than you might realize.\u00a0 You and I are<br>made of the same stardust.\u00a0 We\u2019ve sailed through<br>infinity and, literally, crossed worlds together,<br>voyaging through dreams and realities, time and space.<br>\u00a0<br>The colour of your eyes is a mathematically and<br>genetically controlled chance. Whether you have<br>grey or green or blue or brown eyes peering out<br>from your protein~built skull simply reflects your<br>parent\u2019s and grandparent\u2019s and great~grandparent\u2019s<br>particular genes shooed on to you.\u00a0 Same for your hair.<br>The colour of your skin will help you endure heat and sun<br>and will protect you in hot climes ~ or, not.\u00a0 So, why<br>continually try to make skin-colour meaningful?<br>\u00a0<br>In the end, it is the colour of your MIND, which brands<br>you, identifies your largess or pettiness and which narrates<br>who you are and what tale you tell. \u00a0It\u2019s all about Stories.<br>Your story and mine and everyone\u2019s: and, stories can change.<br>\u00a0<br>As we continue to sail this dream across the sea of<br>Time and as we continue to mark the passing days:<br>leaving what we do and what we say as our \u2018this time\u2019<br>story, many of us become more deliberate and move<br>more consciously into each choice, each moment.\u00a0<br>We weigh our expressions. We, at least, attempt<br>to err on the side of Love.\u00a0 We edge away from those<br>who seek to divide and hate and belittle: the stuff of<br>bullied childhoods and insecurities.\u00a0 We seek to<br>encompass rather than to exclude, because we have<br>begun to learn our genuine purpose, Love, and to<br>understand that life, throughout ages, has an<br>indelible way of remembering each of our markers.<br>Our choices follow us in very many ways, branding us.<br>\u00a0<br>In the end, which means when we each die and<br>escape the chains binding us to here\/now, it won\u2019t<br>mean a thing how much power or money or \u2018influence\u2019<br>we believed we had, or genuinely DID possess.\u00a0 We<br>may have made this particular story more comfy<br>because of those fluffs, but our Core will remember<br>throughout our navigation of many more journeys<br>what we thought, what we expressed and what we did<br>in every life we chanced.\u00a0 Whether or not we dance<br>along one stage or another, often or seldom, won\u2019t<br>matter.\u00a0 Whether or not we Love, we care, we help:<br>those shadows following us around will be our only<br>Witness.\u00a0 How amazing!\u00a0 We CHOOSE the Story<br>we decide to tell:\u00a0 whether or not we hate and hinder<br>or advocate and alleviate will become the energy trails<br>shooting in front of us, out to our sides, trailing behind.<br>\u00a0<br>We each shoulder the weight of every one of our<br>\u201cbeings\u201d. We carry the weight of our words, our<br>deeds and we walk tall or stooped, because of them.<br>\u00a0<br>Nothing ends here\/stops here when we do, and it<br>doesn\u2019t matter if you choose to believe that, or not.<br>\u00a0<br>Look deep.\u00a0 Think hard.\u00a0 I know you feel the warmth<br>of that Light buried inside you.\u00a0 Center on your Light.<br>\u00a0<br>Story.\u00a0 Witness.\u00a0 It\u2019s never too late.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>by Barbara Helvey Hughes, 10-24-2020<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":959,"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-957","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\/957","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=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}