{"id":1788,"date":"2012-11-21T05:58:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T10:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2014-02-09T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T20:10:09","slug":"roses-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/2012\/11\/21\/roses-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Roses in December"},"content":{"rendered":"

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”<\/span><\/strong>
\n~J. M. Barrie<\/p>\n

Today, I am wondering where my mind went.<\/p>\n

I nearly forgot to do this blog post.\u00a0 How is that possible?\u00a0 I know I have to do a daily blog post.\u00a0 I’ve done one, day after day, for months.\u00a0 Nearly six months now.\u00a0 And, today, it is only by accident, it seems, that there will be something appearing.<\/p>\n

I thought of it several times yesterday.\u00a0 I had a couple of topics in mind.<\/p>\n

And then. . .I forgot.<\/p>\n

This is a somewhat disturbing trend.<\/p>\n

Definitely something to wonder about\u2014where my mind went.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, one could wonder about the equally amazing phenomenon that nearly the first thing I thought of when I awoke\u2014far<\/em> too early this morning\u2014was OMG! I never did my blog post<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Memory is a strange thing.<\/p>\n

An odd tightrope.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, it seems like the more you put into it the more it can hold.\u00a0 When I am very, very busy with multiple projects and hundreds of details, I can often track them like a bloodhound.\u00a0 When I have less to do, it’s like the old brain goes on a slow boat to Bermuda.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, though, when I am very, very busy with multiple projects and hundreds of details, the whole thing springs a leak.\u00a0 Multiple leaks.\u00a0 Things start slipping through the cracks, and the cracks\u2014well, they start to resemble the proverbial sieve.\u00a0 Then, when I have less to do, a single-minded purpose, that one thing can become nearly an obsession.<\/p>\n

An odd tightrope.<\/p>\n

Some days, you over-balance in one direction; some days, it’s the other.<\/p>\n

I’ve always had a really good memory.\u00a0 It’s a bit disconcerting when this kind of thing happens.\u00a0 As I get older, too, the occasional missed connection gets more worrying.\u00a0 Is this a trend<\/em>? I wonder.<\/p>\n

I think I’ll spend part of today learning a poem or something.<\/p>\n

Memory is a muscle, too.<\/p>\n

And I like roses. . .December or otherwise.<\/p>\n

(But first, I’m going back to bed.\u00a0 Later, ‘gators.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” ~J. M. Barrie Today, I am wondering where my mind went. I nearly forgot to do this blog post.\u00a0 How is that possible?\u00a0 I know I have to do a daily blog post.\u00a0 I’ve done one, day after day, for months.\u00a0 Nearly six […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84],"tags":[79,245],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-life-in-general","tag-wondering-wednesdays","tag-memory"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}