{"id":4801,"date":"2011-07-13T00:28:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T07:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:32:25","slug":"more-on-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2011\/07\/13\/more-on-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"More On Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I am standing upon the seashore.<br \/>\nA ship at my side spreads her white<br \/>\nsails to the morning breeze and starts<br \/>\nfor the blue ocean.<\/p>\n<p>She is an object of beauty and strength.<br \/>\nI stand and watch her until at length<br \/>\nshe hangs like a speck of white cloud<br \/>\njust where the sea and sky come<br \/>\nto mingle with each other.<\/p>\n<p>Then, someone at my side says;<br \/>\n&#8220;There, she is gone!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gone where?&#8221;<br \/>\nGone from my sight. That is all.<br \/>\nShe is just as large in mast and hull<br \/>\nand spar as she was when she left my side<br \/>\nand she is just as able to bear her<br \/>\nload of living freight to her destined port.<br \/>\nHer diminished size is in me, not in her.<\/p>\n<p>And just at the moment when someone<br \/>\nat my side says, &#8220;There, she is gone!&#8221;<br \/>\nThere are other eyes watching her coming,<br \/>\nand other voices ready to take up the glad shout;<br \/>\n&#8220;Here she comes!&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd that is dying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Henry Van Dyke <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,217,16,215,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-meditation","category-nature","category-poetry","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","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=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11865,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/11865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}