{"id":376,"date":"2004-04-30T10:55:32","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T18:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/04\/30\/whats-left\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:18:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:18:58","slug":"whats-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/04\/30\/whats-left\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Brobeck of <a href=\"http:\/\/sainteros.com\/weblog\/archives\/000590.html#000590\">The Coffee Sutras<\/a> writes inspired entries he dubs &#8220;morning verses.&#8221;  This one struck me as especially eloquent.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td>\nYesterday I felt discouraged. <br \/>\nIt hangs over me this morning, as well.<br \/>\nI tell myself chop wood, carry water.<br \/>\nBut the woods grow thicker.<br \/>\nThe water is over my head.<br \/>\nI have only these old bones<br \/>\nto hack and paddle, picked<br \/>\nclean by time and overuse.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re dull. And silence, the clear<br \/>\nspring, well, maybe in the next life.<br \/>\nHere in this one, the birds<br \/>\ntear silence like an old blanket,<br \/>\nhoard it in their nests,<br \/>\nout of reach, woven in twigs<br \/>\nand dead grass. What&#8217;s left?<br \/>\nI put my hope in the furious<br \/>\nscouring of storms.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Brobeck of The Coffee Sutras writes inspired entries he dubs &#8220;morning verses.&#8221; This one struck me as especially eloquent. Yesterday I felt discouraged. It hangs over me this morning, as well. I tell myself chop wood, carry water. But the woods grow thicker. The water is over my head. I have only these old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-nature","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","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=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12977,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/12977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}