{"id":490,"date":"2010-05-09T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T22:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.181.224.157.134\/~sommerme\/blog\/?p=490"},"modified":"2015-03-19T10:20:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T00:20:53","slug":"visual-inspiration-365-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/visual-inspiration-365-54\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Inspiration 365 \/\/ 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/54-Visual-Inspiration-365-The-art-of-mothering-is-to-teach-the-art-of-living-to-children-Elain-Heffner_900_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2962 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/54-Visual-Inspiration-365-The-art-of-mothering-is-to-teach-the-art-of-living-to-children-Elain-Heffner_900_web.jpg\" alt=\"Visual Inspiration 365 - The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children - Elain Heffner\" width=\"900\" height=\"897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/54-Visual-Inspiration-365-The-art-of-mothering-is-to-teach-the-art-of-living-to-children-Elain-Heffner_900_web.jpg 900w, https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/54-Visual-Inspiration-365-The-art-of-mothering-is-to-teach-the-art-of-living-to-children-Elain-Heffner_900_web-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/54-Visual-Inspiration-365-The-art-of-mothering-is-to-teach-the-art-of-living-to-children-Elain-Heffner_900_web-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Quote \/\/ The art of mothering, is to teach the art of living to children &#8211; Elain Heffner<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span> Dearest Mother,<\/p>\n<p>I know you will be reading this sooner or later cause your pretty much one of biggest fans, as you check this most days (bless your cotton socks!) so thought I would wish you a Happy Mother\u2019s Day from this platform : )<\/p>\n<p>Now I could wax lyrical about the 1001 things that make you the best Mother\u2026or I could write you a pseudo-haiku as I know how much you like them\u2026or maybe its just that you tolerate my absurdity ; )<\/p>\n<p>Golden words she sings,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDragon, fly inside a jar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years mistaken.<\/p>\n<p>(For as early as I could remember, you would sing me a song\/lullaby which unbeknownst to me at the time was actually the first verse and chorus from \u201cThe Circle Game\u201d by Joni Mitchell\u2026\u2026.and for a good twenty or so years I believed with all my heart that the second line of the song was about catching a dragon that \u201cfly\u201d (flew) into a jar\u2026NOT an actual dragonfly.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently my brain synapses missed the logical connection of dragonfly vs. dragon + jar completely.)<\/p>\n<p>So now I will forever and always sing dragon. Thank you for this and a million more things.<\/p>\n<p>Love always,<\/p>\n<p>Sommer x<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0************************<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Circle Game \u2013 Joni Mitchell<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yesterday a child came out to wonder<br \/>\n<strong>Caught a dragonfly inside a jar<br \/>\n<\/strong>Fearful when the sky was full of thunder<br \/>\nAnd tearful at the falling of a star<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then the child moved ten times round the seasons<br \/>\nSkated over ten year frozen streams<br \/>\nWords like \u2018when you\u2019re older\u2019 must appease him<br \/>\nAnd promises of \u2018someday\u2019 make his dreams<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And the seasons they go round and round<br \/>\nAnd the painted ponies go up and down<br \/>\nWe\u2019re captive on the carousel of time<br \/>\nWe can\u2019t return we can only look behind from where we came<br \/>\nAnd go round and round and round in the circle game<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now<br \/>\nCart wheels cross to car wheels through the town<br \/>\nAnd you tell him take your time it won\u2019t be long now<br \/>\nTill you drag your feet to slow those circles down<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So the boy who dreamed tomorrow now is twenty<br \/>\nThough his dreams have lost some grandeur, coming true<br \/>\nThere\u2019ll be new dreams maybe better dreams a plenty<br \/>\nBefore the last revolving year is through<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And the seasons they go round and round<br \/>\nAnd the painted ponies go up and down<br \/>\nWe\u2019re captive on the carousel of time<br \/>\nWe can\u2019t return we can only look behind from where we came<br \/>\nAnd go round and round and round in the circle again<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote \/\/ The art of mothering, is to teach the art of living to children &#8211; Elain Heffner&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/visual-inspiration-365-54\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[165,166,293,424,545,719,1767,20,1636,1176,1768,1450],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/54-Visual-Inspiration-365-The-art-of-mothering-is-to-teach-the-art-of-living-to-children-Elain-Heffner_900_web.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}