{"id":1142,"date":"2024-03-21T11:53:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2024-03-21T11:56:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:56:28","slug":"following-the-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/following-the-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Following The Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Your-heart-is-broken-long-before-it-is-broken.-You-sometimes-die-long-before-you-are-dead-wake-up-there-is-still-everything-to-play-for-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1143\" src=\"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Your-heart-is-broken-long-before-it-is-broken.-You-sometimes-die-long-before-you-are-dead-wake-up-there-is-still-everything-to-play-for-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Your-heart-is-broken-long-before-it-is-broken.-You-sometimes-die-long-before-you-are-dead-wake-up-there-is-still-everything-to-play-for-1.png 1080w, https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Your-heart-is-broken-long-before-it-is-broken.-You-sometimes-die-long-before-you-are-dead-wake-up-there-is-still-everything-to-play-for-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Your-heart-is-broken-long-before-it-is-broken.-You-sometimes-die-long-before-you-are-dead-wake-up-there-is-still-everything-to-play-for-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Your-heart-is-broken-long-before-it-is-broken.-You-sometimes-die-long-before-you-are-dead-wake-up-there-is-still-everything-to-play-for-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Your-heart-is-broken-long-before-it-is-broken.-You-sometimes-die-long-before-you-are-dead-wake-up-there-is-still-everything-to-play-for-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Your-heart-is-broken-long-before-it-is-broken.-You-sometimes-die-long-before-you-are-dead-wake-up-there-is-still-everything-to-play-for-1-550x550.png 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, I asked\u00a0 myself why I continue to do things that make no sense to anyone else but me. I love it when questions that are posed by myself are answered by the universe. It answered the question this morning, via a poem by William Stafford:<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a thread you follow. It goes among<br \/>\nthings that change. But it doesn\u2019t change.<br \/>\nPeople wonder about what you are pursuing.<br \/>\nYou have to explain about the thread.<br \/>\nBut it is hard for others to see.<br \/>\nWhile you hold it you can\u2019t get lost.<br \/>\nTragedies happen; people get hurt<br \/>\nor die; and you suffer and get old.<br \/>\nNothing you do can stop time\u2019s unfolding.<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t ever let go of the thread.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Way It Is\u201d by William\u00a0Stafford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#x27a1; My thread is the love of story. The power it has to transform not just the self but others.<br \/>\n&#x27a1; When I am doubting and about to embark upon a journey that makes no sense (which I currently am), I have found it really helpful to take a moment to reflect and feel its pull.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re on a journey that appears to make no sense to anyone but yourself, I hope you find this poem both helpful and hopeful &#x1f64f; &#x2728;<\/p>\n<p><strong> #Keep going<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>#storytelling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#knowyourwhy<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I asked\u00a0 myself why I continue to do things that make no sense to anyone else but me. I love it when questions that are posed by myself are answered by the universe. It answered the question this morning, via a poem by William Stafford: There\u2019s a thread you follow. It goes among things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6M31y-iq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}