{"id":1802,"date":"2013-05-19T16:54:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T15:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2013-05-19T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T15:54:33","slug":"the-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/?p=1802","title":{"rendered":"the island"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>The end of one thing always heralds the beginning of something new.\u00a0 In the same way the beginning of something marks the end of an order.\u00a0 In times of diminishment especially, we need to be made aware of other shores, even of eternal reaches.\u00a0 <\/i><i>For all of us, as long as we are alive there are always horizons (David Adams, Tides &amp; Seasons).<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She sat, hypnotised by the tide\u2019s rhythm as it ebbed and flowed in a time set out at the dawn of creation, powerfully balanced between danger and safety.\u00a0 That predictable journey of leaving one shore flowing into another and back again; perfect timing and nothing lost.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting.\u00a0 Not long now.\u00a0 Patience.<\/p>\n<p>Soon the causeway would emerge allowing them to cross.\u00a0 Butterflies betrayed her composure and a smile tugged at her lips and her heart.\u00a0 As the tides waited so did she.\u00a0 There would be no rush.\u00a0 Waiting was part of this journey.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling down the window she breathed in deeply the crisp October air before exhaling slowly.\u00a0\u00a0 Practiced mindfulness played its part in every movement, every sensation, every unspoken request and response, as cool air filled her lungs again and again and again.\u00a0 She squinted as the autumn sun captured her face and taking in the cloudless bright blue sky that she loved so much she couldn\u2019t help but smile.\u00a0 Lizzie felt good.<\/p>\n<p>The traffic moved and as she crossed the causeway in her little white vintage car her spirit leapt!\u00a0 She understood only too well how the wild and sometimes brutal elements could apply a vice like grip especially as the cycle of seasons turned autumn into winter. But there was also something magical, spiritual and beautiful about this island.\u00a0 No one who visited left without being touched\u00a0by its remarkable fortitude.\u00a0 Stories of monks and Vikings, of raids and suppression, survival, journeys and community, laid the foundations for spiritual awakenings and pilgrimage over centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Today was no different for there was a sense of the past and the present and the future\u00a0in the air.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of one thing always heralds the beginning of something new.\u00a0 In the same way the beginning of something marks the end of an order.\u00a0 In times of diminishment especially, we need to be made aware of other shores, even of eternal reaches.\u00a0 For all of us, as long as we are alive there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2zQgS-t4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}