{"id":2058,"date":"2021-02-17T17:04:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T22:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2021-02-17T17:04:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T22:04:21","slug":"finding-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2058","title":{"rendered":"Finding Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, I announced to a large group of state leaders that I am a daily meditator and that lessons I was learning from that practice were helping me think deeper and ask different questions. I didn\u2019t intend to do it, but I\u2019m also not beating myself up about it. In fact, I encouraged them to read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/24730464\">Sharon Salzberg\u2019s book <\/a><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real Change<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that I referenced in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2056\">my previous post<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The book is a guide to making change, written almost specifically for the people in that meeting: advocates and activists who have committed to creating an equitable, accessible, innovative public education system. It is hard work, demanding, and can be all consuming. How can you take a break when you see so much need, when you feel angry and frustrated?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salzberg argues, and I can speak from personal experience, even a few minutes of meditation each day has helped me find a space within the work where I can rest and then return refreshed. It sharpens my focus and allows me to gauge my reactions in a more thoughtful way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I open my eyes after practicing and look out on the world, I know it is the same broken place, I feel the familiar anger, but I also feel as though I have more courage to keep moving forward even as I accept the current circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I announced to a large group of state leaders that I am a daily meditator and that lessons I was learning from that practice were helping me think deeper and ask different questions. I didn\u2019t intend to do it, but I\u2019m also not beating myself up about it. In fact, I encouraged them to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2058\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finding Space<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[95,532,31],"tags":[531],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-meditation","category-thinking-out-loud","tag-sharon-salzberg"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-xc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}