{"id":394,"date":"2010-05-04T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2010-05-04T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T18:23:00","slug":"a-different-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"A Different Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_t8QqmnputW4\/S98TPDVBfxI\/AAAAAAAAAVg\/Opfso_Jo9YY\/s1600\/bike-on-lane_diane.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_t8QqmnputW4\/S98TPDVBfxI\/AAAAAAAAAVg\/Opfso_Jo9YY\/s400\/bike-on-lane_diane.jpg\" width=\"300\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a path that&#8217;s new to me, it is the one I eventually return to when I&#8217;ve had enough. Enough of my dark night of the soul.<\/p>\n<p>May &#8212; a new month, the month of Mary, of mothers, of flowers, Beltaine,  soft blooms, and new beginnings all staggered according to genus and  species. Mine will be staggered according to mood, inspiration and  whimsy. Just finished the book The Happiness Project, and I gotta say, I  liked it. It got me thinking. About changing my attitude. Which can be  slow going when past demons start licking like tiny flames at past hurts  that still aren&#8217;t resolved. There&#8217;s a saying, sh!t or get off the pot.  I&#8217;ve been in this spot before (the stuck spot), and I&#8217;ve turned it around. It really does  work. Changing my attitude I mean. And it does seem to change my life  &#8212; open up more doors, more possibilities. I&#8217;m all for my woo woo  therapies, and what have you, but sometimes I just need a good (and  swift) kick in the arse.Sometimes tenderness and tolerance, time and so  on are in order. But enough is enough. It&#8217;s time to start my own  <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.happiness-project.com\/\">happiness project<\/a><\/b>. And honor divine inspiration when it hits me. And it  does hit.<\/p>\n<p>**photo of bicycle in Thatcher Lane, Yarmouthport courtesy of my writer gal pal <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianehanna.com\/blog\/\">Diane<\/a><\/b>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a path that&#8217;s new to me, it is the one I eventually return to when I&#8217;ve had enough. Enough of my dark night of the soul. May &#8212; a new month, the month of Mary, of mothers, of flowers, Beltaine, soft blooms, and new beginnings all staggered according to genus and species. Mine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=394\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Different Path&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}