{"id":186,"date":"2022-11-04T08:43:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T08:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2022-11-04T08:43:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T08:43:28","slug":"someone-should-start-laughing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/someone-should-start-laughing\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Should Start Laughing\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-component=\"text\">\n<div class=\"kartra_text\">\n<p><strong>Today I was sitting with beautiful poetry by Hafiz-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"icon\">\n<div class=\"kartra_icon kartra_icon--dark kartra_icon--center kartra_icon--margin-bottom-small kartra_icon--medium\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text\">\n<div class=\"kartra_text\">\n<p><strong>\u201cI have a thousand brilliant lies<br \/>\nFor the question:<br \/>\nHow are you?<br \/>\nI have a thousand brilliant lies<br \/>\nFor the question<br \/>\nWhat is God?<br \/>\nIf you think that the Sun and the Ocean<br \/>\nCan pass through that tiny opening<br \/>\nCalled the mouth,<br \/>\nO someone should start laughing!<br \/>\nSomeone should start wildly Laughing-<br \/>\nNow!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>I admit that I tend toward the serious. \u00a0I tend toward the gravity of \u201cimportant things\u201d and I have been reminded as of late that humor can be a blessing to move us toward flexibility and love. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I worked with a couple this week who agreed to try something new instead of having that same old argument. \u00a0They decided to use a code word and then to make up a spontaneous song each before proceeding with their agendas. \u00a0They decided to take the opportunity to play with the edges of difficulty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>True that my journey right now sometimes feels like prying my hands open to let go and to receive. \u00a0And true that my instinct is to buckle down and really let go\u2026.to chant my litany again and again. \u00a0Tonight I want to remember the absurdity of this habit in me. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tonight I want to look at my earnest little self striving to let go well enough, and bust a gut instead. What abundance do I lose sight of when I\u2019m busy working on letting go? \u00a0What brilliant lie do I tell myself when I claim it is possible\u00a0to surrender well enough? \u00a0Tonight I can find the humor in my small vision. \u00a0I am surrounded by love. \u00a0I am love. \u00a0I am gifted with an absolutely absurd bounty of blessings. \u00a0Maybe all I need is to laugh and say thank you. \u00a0Maybe I need to let the Sun and the Ocean be the truth of\u00a0me without having to do anything at all. \u00a0Maybe that is all the generosity I need.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit that I tend toward the serious. \u00a0I tend toward the gravity of \u201cimportant things\u201d and I have been reminded as of late that humor can be a blessing to move us toward flexibility and love. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}