{"id":1994,"date":"2007-07-16T14:47:46","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T21:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/07\/16\/round-and-rounder\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:40:04","slug":"round-and-rounder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/07\/16\/round-and-rounder\/","title":{"rendered":"Round and Rounder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something comforting about coloring. I wanted to do something creative but had no ambition for unstructured play on the weekend. I also was thinking about making a &#8220;focal point&#8221; to focus on during labor. I pulled out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Peace-Mandala-Coloring-Monique-Mandali\/dp\/1585920614\">Peace Mandala Coloring Book<\/a> and began with the flower manadala (at the bottom). It was pretty, feminine. I wanted the colors to suggest the power of the female anatomy. Yet when it was done I didn&#8217;t feel connected to it. So I tried another mandala and instead of using complementary colors, I aimed for vibrancy. These mandalas are 12 x 12 inches. Not sure which I&#8217;ll use, if either. Only six more weeks until my due date! We&#8217;re getting cramped inside. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/830582359\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1121\/830582359_e73e59c90c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"mandala 2\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/830582329\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1146\/830582329_6ea2e80e6d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"mandala 1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something comforting about coloring. I wanted to do something creative but had no ambition for unstructured play on the weekend. I also was thinking about making a &#8220;focal point&#8221; to focus on during labor. I pulled out the Peace Mandala Coloring Book and began with the flower manadala (at the bottom). It was pretty, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","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=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11308,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/11308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}