{"id":1606,"date":"2006-07-27T22:10:17","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T05:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/07\/27\/this-and-that-and-the-other\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:43:14","slug":"this-and-that-and-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/07\/27\/this-and-that-and-the-other\/","title":{"rendered":"This And That And The Other"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things that please me and make me a nice person to be around.<\/p>\n

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  1. The car engine light remains off and it’s running great.<\/li>\n
  2. My car passed smog inspection.<\/li>\n
  3. I got a free cup of coffee this afternoon when I happened upon a grand opening party of a new Starbucks in San Mateo.<\/li>\n
  4. There was a musician performing for the party whose style and voice I found very striking. Her name is Katie Knipp<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  5. I spent an enjoyable evening packing safe sex kits for the AIDS program in San Mateo.<\/li>\n
  6. I am scheduled to get a massage tomorrow (my annual trip).<\/li>\n
  7. One of my new social groups at LibraryThing<\/a> has taken off. It’s a group for people who like tea, of all things.<\/li>\n
  8. The temperature is cool again.<\/li>\n
  9. I had dinner with a friend and caught up over coffee at Borders while in SF yesterday. We hadn’t seen each other in nine months.<\/li>\n
  10. I am eating fresh, sweet cherries as I write this post.<\/li>\n
  11. I will attend the Collard Greens Festival<\/a> on Saturday. It’s in East Palo Alto; if you live in the Bay Area, you should come! I can hardly wait to sample the collard green ice cream!<\/li>\n
  12. As of August 1, I will have only three months of my service to complete. <\/li>\n
  13. I have decided to let go of anxiety about what will happen next and just enjoy the abundant life I am blessed with.<\/li>\n
  14. While the past week has been creatively quiet in terms of knitting and visual art, I wrote two poems for the first time in three months.<\/li>\n
  15. This means that I’m “getting back on the horse again” after my dreadful experience with an online poetry forum and a raking over by one critic\/troll in particular.<\/li>\n
  16. Meanwhile I discovered some new books with techniques and bought some more supplies (rubber stamps, paper, ink), which has been like taking a super-creativity vitamin. My hands are itching to make something!<\/li>\n
  17. There are brilliant, incisive, creative people out there, such as Ze Frank<\/a>, who amuses me daily, and the occasional You Tube video such as Keep Your Jesus Off My Penis<\/a> by Eric Schwartz (thanks to Emy<\/a> for that one).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Things that please me and make me a nice person to be around. The car engine light remains off and it’s running great. My car passed smog inspection. I got a free cup of coffee this afternoon when I happened upon a grand opening party of a new Starbucks in San Mateo. There was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13,27,29,31,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-humor","category-recreation","category-regional","category-social-science","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","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=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11093,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/11093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}