{"id":2038,"date":"2007-08-31T00:05:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T07:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/08\/31\/chop-wood-carry-water-a-mothers-spiritual-practice\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:39:29","slug":"chop-wood-carry-water-a-mothers-spiritual-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/08\/31\/chop-wood-carry-water-a-mothers-spiritual-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Chop Wood, Carry Water: A Mother&#8217;s Spiritual Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no right way. There is always a <em>right now<\/em> way.<center><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8BRDOPqDnT0\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8BRDOPqDnT0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center>I&#8217;m thinking of my mother&#8217;s life work (mothering four children) as I watch this and as I imagine what path I will soon travel. Karen&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Momma-Zen-Walking-Crooked-Motherhood\/dp\/1590302966\">Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood<\/a>, is a small treasure &#8212; accessible, handy, and valuable. I have wanted to attend one of her talks but my schedule didn&#8217;t accommodate that. It&#8217;s a pleasure to see and hear her. You can read her too, at <a href=\"http:\/\/mommazen.blogspot.com\/\">Cheerio Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The video is also at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8BRDOPqDnT0\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no right way. There is always a right now way.I&#8217;m thinking of my mother&#8217;s life work (mothering four children) as I watch this and as I imagine what path I will soon travel. Karen&#8217;s book, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood, is a small treasure &#8212; accessible, handy, and valuable. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28,34,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humanities","category-motherhood","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","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=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11521,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/11521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}