{"id":10726,"date":"2020-10-23T08:43:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=10726"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:28:22","slug":"a-recent-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2020\/10\/23\/a-recent-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Recent Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently went to the mountains, and while sitting among the trees this poem came.<\/p>\n<p>When I go to the woods<br \/>\nI bring no books along<br \/>\npreferring instead to read<br \/>\nthe primary sources:<\/p>\n<p>the opinion columns of pines<br \/>\npersuasive essays by incense cedars<br \/>\nan array of novels from oak trees.<br \/>\nQuaking aspens are poetry of light<br \/>\nand movement.<\/p>\n<p>There is philosophy in fallen logs.<br \/>\nI study the hieroglyphs of former<br \/>\nwildfires to glean memories<br \/>\nof the Before time.<\/p>\n<p>Even dead trees have purpose<br \/>\nas nurseries for animals and plants;<br \/>\nthe rhymes arising from them<br \/>\nare kissed by the wind,<br \/>\nthen float away.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/36580347815\/in\/photolist-XJtQXZ-XEoghN-WKdmWw-WKdsBu-UHSPve-UHSRHa-UtztLj-U8LdTj-U8LddG-U8Lfs1-U8Lf3U-U8Li4J-UHSYgF-TuiVXx-UHT6uP-TroDew-TroH2S-UwmNKD-TroG5G-TroJe1-UwmPWB-SQt6Z7-SQt5d1-U4ixJu-U4iyK7-SQtaS7-U4iEHE-SQtc7w-SQteYd-TwY7py-TwYabW-U7Ucz2-TSZLm5-TVmNRv-STgKc8-TVmPB8-U4iSxS-SQtx19-SQty4b-SQtvyS-STgP9X-U4j1tG-STgWNV-STgXWB-TT11to-TT12sY-STh4YM-STh6Kn-TwYqrq-STh8Jn\" title=\"Lassen-Crater Lake-Oregon Caves-Jed Smith 2017\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4410\/36580347815_490c48020f_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Lassen-Crater Lake-Oregon Caves-Jed Smith 2017\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently went to the mountains, and while sitting among the trees this poem came. When I go to the woods I bring no books along preferring instead to read the primary sources: the opinion columns of pines persuasive essays by incense cedars an array of novels from oak trees. Quaking aspens are poetry of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,16],"tags":[270,251,221,229,252,67],"class_list":["post-10726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aenigmas","category-nature","tag-attention","tag-books","tag-nature","tag-poetry","tag-reading","tag-trees"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10726","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=10726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10728,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10726\/revisions\/10728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}