{"id":7824,"date":"2019-01-15T00:43:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T04:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7824"},"modified":"2019-01-15T00:43:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T04:43:09","slug":"joy-across-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7824","title":{"rendered":"Joy Across the Street"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mason-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mason-15.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mason-15-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mason-15-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet why are we so slow to appreciate, why do we even studiously ignore the very things that bring us deep joy?  No doubt it&#8217;s because the moment we awaken to joy we feel (rightly) responsible to give it expression, to allow more opportunities for its release.  This can be unsettling to our cherished routines.  If driving in the country makes me happy, I may need to do more of it.  If I love the colors of nature, why not spend more time looking?  Do I esteem joy so little that I won&#8217;t cross the street to get some?&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joy need not be sought outside of the lives we already have.  No, it is right under our noses, often in the most ordinary experiences.  If we spent the next year simply enjoying who we are and what we have, we&#8217;d be much further ahead than by striving for more.  What we need most, more than something dramatically new, is a quiet realization of what already is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Mike Mason, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/champagne_for_the_soul.html\">Champagne\u00c2\u00a0for\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0Soul<\/a>,<\/em> p. 116<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo:  South Riding, Virginia, January 14, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet why are we so slow to appreciate, why do we even studiously ignore the very things that bring us deep joy? No doubt it&#8217;s because the moment we awaken to joy we feel (rightly) responsible to give it expression, to allow more opportunities for its release. This can be unsettling to our cherished routines. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7826,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions\/7826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}