{"id":10079,"date":"2020-03-17T11:26:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T18:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=10079"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:13:17","slug":"a-message-from-my-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2020\/03\/17\/a-message-from-my-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message From My Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent conversations, Mom shared with me several poems she would love to be read at her service. Since we don&#8217;t know when that will be, due to travel restrictions and pandemic, I thought I&#8217;d share here. This is the first one.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do not stand at my grave and weep.<br \/>\nI am not there. I do not sleep.<br \/>\nI am a thousand winds that blow.<br \/>\nI am the diamond glints on snow.<br \/>\nI am the sunlight on ripened grain.<br \/>\nI am the gentle autumn rain.<br \/>\nWhen you awaken in the morning&#8217;s hush<br \/>\nI am the swift uplifting rush<br \/>\nOf quiet birds in circled flight.<br \/>\nI am the soft stars that shine at night.<br \/>\nDo not stand at my grave and cry;<br \/>\nI am not there. I did not die.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Mary Elizabeth Frye<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><strong>MacKerricher State Park 2019<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/49674353357\/in\/datetaken\/\" title=\"mackerricher state park\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49674353357_d66e288923_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"260\" alt=\"mackerricher state park\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent conversations, Mom shared with me several poems she would love to be read at her service. Since we don&#8217;t know when that will be, due to travel restrictions and pandemic, I thought I&#8217;d share here. This is the first one. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep Do not stand at my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,34,16,215,30,219],"tags":[140,69,152,141,229],"class_list":["post-10079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-poetry","category-quotes","category-spirit","tag-death","tag-grief","tag-love","tag-mother","tag-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079","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=10079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10083,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions\/10083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}