{"id":1713,"date":"2019-01-02T16:18:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T21:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2019-01-02T16:24:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T21:24:53","slug":"the-inevitable-let-down-or-taking-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1713","title":{"rendered":"The Inevitable Let Down Or Taking A Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Our Myrtle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/therichardsons\/27496074667\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/886\/27496074667_a1b40c487c_n.jpg?resize=320%2C238&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Our Myrtle\" width=\"320\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>I just needed a day, I think, to do not much after months of doing, doing, doing. I had planned to travel today for a last bit of holiday vacation\u00a0 but slept badly last night and woke late feeling low, not prepared for a long car drive even with a decent book to listen to. I messaged my old friend who was lovely and supportive; thank goodness for old friends, indeed. We&#8217;ll meet up tomorrow at an annual get together of other old friends, mostly women I worked with at my first teaching gig in the late 80s, and then spend a few days recuperating from it all with sales shopping and binge watching and at least one movie theater movie, probably Mary, Queen of Scots. I look forward to this annual trek and know it will be restorative, but I just needed a day to make the transition.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I did do was set up my feed reader as part of my general goal of being better connected. I emptied it completely and decided to just start with the people Jen Orr mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/jenorr.com\/?p=4174\">her blog post<\/a>. I recognized all the names as thoughtful people who were doing good work around creativity and equity. It is a good start, I think, and I am trying to keep things sustainable. I plan to have this group as a core of regular reading because I know they will connect me with a wider community and then I can add others to the core list. I hope it is a better strategy than filling the feed with every person I might possibly read and then being overwhelmed by the number of posts.<\/p>\n<p>My organizational efforts\u00a0 were immediately rewarded with <a href=\"https:\/\/edifiedlistener.blog\/2019\/01\/02\/yes-and\/\">this beautiful prose poem by Sherri Spelic<\/a> reflecting on the holiday and the coming year, what we bring with us, what we leave behind, what we look forward to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just needed a day, I think, to do not much after months of doing, doing, doing. 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