{"id":5503,"date":"2010-03-28T08:45:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T15:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:33:36","slug":"something-about-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/03\/28\/something-about-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Something About the Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Something about the wind makes me feel alive\u2026the seagulls and the sky\u2026whether its sunny and bright or cloudy and grey or nighttime and I\u2019m surrounded by vast darkness\u2026I just feel\u2026FULL. Full of love and energy\u2026.almost as though I\u2019m porous and the wind soars through tiny holes in my body and I\u2019m part of it all\u2026the earth and the people and the relation of everything with everything\u2026as though I don\u2019t matter\u2026but its not scary\u2026its wonderful\u2026.i feel so free.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the only time I\u2019m not afraid to die. Cuz I can feel the wind and I know that I\u2019ll always be a part of life\u2026and the love and energy that are contained in my skin will be let loose into the wind and the world will just know how much I care and love and I will live forever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Eva Dien Brine Markvoort, 2006-2010 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eva was a lovely woman, full of spirit and beauty and fire, who battled Cystic Fibrosis and MRSA. She underwent a double lung transplant in 2007, but eventually her body rejected it. She went on the waiting list for another transplant. She fought to stay with this world until she could not. In February, she recorded this loving message to the world. She lived another six weeks, and died at age 25 on March 27, 2010. I&#8217;ve spent this morning <a href=\"http:\/\/65redroses.livejournal.com\/\">reading the archives of her blog<\/a>, looking at her photos, and marveling at how much life and love this young woman packed into her stay on earth. I wish I could have met her. I hope I can heed her words.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=viNEhFQe5o8&#038;feature=player_embedded\">this link<\/a> to see the movie, or watch it below. It might make you cry, but it&#8217;s important to listen. (And turn up the volume; her condition made her speak softly and slowly.)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/viNEhFQe5o8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/viNEhFQe5o8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something about the wind makes me feel alive\u2026the seagulls and the sky\u2026whether its sunny and bright or cloudy and grey or nighttime and I\u2019m surrounded by vast darkness\u2026I just feel\u2026FULL. Full of love and energy\u2026.almost as though I\u2019m porous and the wind soars through tiny holes in my body and I\u2019m part of it all\u2026the [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-meditation","category-nature","category-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","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=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11768,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions\/11768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}