{"id":1579,"date":"2015-06-01T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lorriejones.net\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2015-04-13T17:08:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T21:08:53","slug":"living-your-best-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/mindful-minutes\/living-your-best-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindful Minute: Living Your Best Life by Susan Hanson"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat might my life be like were I to give in to the rhythms of my own ragged dance? Like this, I imagine, walking down the trail, past grapevines and wine cups and huisache blooming in the sun. Just like this attentiveness, this pleasure, this being present to the world.\u201d \u2014Susan Hanson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This quote speaks to me for one basic and very important reason: it calls me beyond my \u201cto-do list\u201d \u2013 beyond my plans and even beyond what I hope will happen in the day. It calls me to move at my own pace and to breathe in the beauty of life.<\/p>\n<p>What might my life be like if I were true to myself? If I moved in a rhythm that was my own, allowing it all to be okay? And what might my life be like if I embraced the beauty of this blessed earth? What if it were enough to be alive \u2026and to be present to the world?<\/p>\n<p>I ask this question of all of us: what if we let go of urgency and the need to accomplish? What if we were wise: doing what was truly needed \u2013 like loving or forgiving \u2013 and letting that be enough? Tasks will get done. But loving life all over again everyday: what if that were our true calling?<\/p>\n<p>I welcome comments as each voice is important to me and we all need to be heard.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1582\" style=\"width: 658px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1582\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1582\" alt=\"tulips\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lorriejones.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tulips14.jpg\" width=\"648\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tulips14.jpg 648w, http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tulips14-300x266.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tulips14-150x133.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tulips14-400x355.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blooming in the sun<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What might my life be like if I were true to myself? If I moved in a rhythm that was my own, allowing it all to be okay? And what might my life be like if I embraced the beauty of this blessed earth? What if it were enough to be alive \u2026and to be present to the world? I ask this question of all of us: what if we let go of urgency and the need to accomplish? What if we were wise: doing what was truly needed \u2013 like loving or forgiving \u2013 and letting that be enough? Tasks will get done. But loving life all over again everyday: what if that were our true calling? <\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/mindful-minutes\/living-your-best-life\/\">Mindful Minute: Living Your Best Life by Susan Hanson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[287],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindful-minutes","tag-live-your-best-life","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}