{"id":12,"date":"2013-01-02T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jamieaswenson.com\/studious-cat\/2013\/01\/braving-the-storm\/"},"modified":"2013-03-18T13:04:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:04:42","slug":"braving-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamieaswenson.com\/studious-cat\/2013\/01\/braving-the-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Braving the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Snowy<\/a><\/div>\n

Jan. 2, 2013<\/p>\n

Today, I give you\u00a0 – Snowy Pine Tree Early Morning, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012.<\/p>\n

This tree is significant for at least two reasons:<\/p>\n

1) Like everything else on the planet (other than humans)\u00a0— it continued on its path not even stopping to consider that Dec. 21, 2012 may have been its last day on the planet.<\/p>\n

2) Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 ended up being a snowy, stormy, slushy day … and while the planet might have just kept on spinning — a fair number of trees did not make it to Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. The winds were too strong. The snow & ice too heavy. The freezing temperatures too extreme (even for a fur tree). So many of its neighbors ended up on the ground (an undignified place for a tree).<\/p>\n

But a fair number did survive. They stood their ground. Held tight – maybe they swayed and flexed in the wind — but they did not budge. Saturday, Dec. 22 arrived — just as it should have.\u00a0 And they stood as tall as they were able to meet the sunrise.<\/p>\n

A woman, a man, a young girl, and two dogs tromped out into the brilliant snowy\u00a0morning and saw how beautiful it was — it was the type of bitter-cold, glittery day that you only get every so often. The whole world was hushed and shushed due to a thick insulating layer of snow.\u00a0 It was glorious.<\/p>\n

What am I getting at? We spend an awful lot of our time worrying about the End of Days, but\u00a0the world continues. People are born, people die — expectedly and unexpectedly. We have no contract, no calendar, no guarantee. We have only this day. Make the most of it — honestly — do.<\/p>\n

Tromp out into the snow. Leave some tracks for others to follow.<\/p>\n

Happy 2013.<\/p>\n

p.s. I believe expectedly SHOULD be a word. So it is (no matter what Blogger is telling me).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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