{"id":276142,"date":"2024-10-07T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=276142"},"modified":"2024-10-02T07:09:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T06:09:58","slug":"looking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/10\/looking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>1 Oct 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I realized recently<br \/>\nThat<br \/>\nIf you look up at a pine tree<br \/>\nFrom a certain angle<br \/>\nWith both of your feet<br \/>\nPlanted deep in its shadow<br \/>\nIts branches become never-ending.<br \/>\nStanding there like that, you can see<br \/>\nHow they reach out like wings<br \/>\nOf a pinwheel<br \/>\nOr the arms of a person receiving a hug.<br \/>\nThese arms are<br \/>\nForever pushing<br \/>\nLayering one on top of the other<br \/>\nUpwards toward a multitude of realities<br \/>\nUpward toward eternity<br \/>\nUpward bravely into<br \/>\nThe unknown.<br \/>\nEvery day now, I strive to look at my whole life<br \/>\nFrom the same perspective<br \/>\nThat I looked up at that<br \/>\nTree.<\/p>\n<p><em>__________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Sophie Michel is Edward J. Curtin&#8217;s 16-year-old granddaughter. Curtin is a widely published author and a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a><em>. His new book is <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/product\/seeking-truth-in-a-country-of-lies\/\" >Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies<\/a><em> \u2013 His website: <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/edwardcurtin.com\/\" ><em>Behind the Curtain<\/em><\/a><em> &#8211; email: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:edcurtinjr@gmail.com\"><em>edcurtinjr@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/edwardcurtin.com\/looking-up\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 edwardcurtin.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized recently<br \/>\nThat<br \/>\nIf you look up at a pine tree<br \/>\nFrom a certain angle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-276142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276168,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276142\/revisions\/276168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}