{"id":10010,"date":"2019-11-09T10:52:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T18:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=10010"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:13:18","slug":"practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2019\/11\/09\/practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/49039254577\/in\/datetaken-ff\/\" title=\"witches brew\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49039254577_f19f3fed65.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" alt=\"witches brew\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had this mug over 30 years. I received it as a thank-you gift for supporting my local PBS station in Syracuse. It&#8217;s one of the best things I&#8217;ve owned, in that it is lovely to look at, comfortable to hold, a just-right size, and made of a clay that retains heat. To my amazement, it has survived 15 household moves, including two cross-country ones. <\/p>\n<p>Every single morning, unless I&#8217;m ill in bed, I brew one pour-over mug of coffee. It&#8217;s a small ritual that anchors my day. As I looked at it this morning with steam wafting up, it reminded me of a witch&#8217;s brew in a cauldron. I&#8217;m entering my crone years, and I embrace the creativity and crazy wisdom that emerges in this age.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer I realized there is another practice that I have inconsistently applied, one that opens me to appreciating and awakening to life. A practice that I need, because it really does help me be sane, and that can only help the world. I realized that if I can take time to make a single cup of coffee without fail every single day, surely I can do this other practice every single day. So, I committed. And 132 days later, it has become integral to my life. <\/p>\n<p>Now I am looking at other practices that I know support my life and, indirectly, other people. I am setting an intention to do them, which means designating a time and place, and treating it as if I am meeting a loved one.  <\/p>\n<p>I would like to share this reflection on the power of small practices: <a href=\"http:\/\/karenmaezenmiller.com\/your-bed-is-your-head\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Your Bed Is Your Head<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this mug over 30 years. I received it as a thank-you gift for supporting my local PBS station in Syracuse. It&#8217;s one of the best things I&#8217;ve owned, in that it is lovely to look at, comfortable to hold, a just-right size, and made of a clay that retains heat. To my amazement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,214,217,219],"tags":[224,261,260,207,245],"class_list":["post-10010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-domestic-arts","category-meditation","category-spirit","tag-buddhism","tag-coffee","tag-practice","tag-ritual","tag-zen"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10010"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10016,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010\/revisions\/10016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}