I am entering a new way of being. I feel softened and content. I look up at the stars aware that, although minute, I am one of the few living beings in the huge universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I take a rare bus ride and watch weary and impoverished people feel relieved as the bus carries them and their bags a couple of stops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I tell a woman I have lost my travel cards; she gives me HOTEL Chocolat <\/em>santas as she struggles to her feet. I feel unworthy to receive them. Another woman with blue hair talks about her immobility and I have to remind her that she has reached her destination. That makes me feel better about the chocolates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I make soup and read kind Christmas messages as I eat alone. I listen to the Reith lecture which tells me about the need to transform suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the train to Quaker Meeting I read Philipa Perry\u2019s guidance to a man approaching 80 – \u2018turn inward to find a new deeper engagement with life. Contribute quietly to those around you\u2019<\/em>, she says. Yes that fits with how I am becoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of Meeting a man with a beaming face gives me fossils between 33 and 46 million years old. Gifts to connect me with eternity, to touch my heart, that I gladly accept, that fix my place in life. He reminds me that his name is Tim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I sit alone in my house, part of space, connected to time, overflowing with gratitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am entering a new way of being. I feel softened and content. I look up at the stars aware that, although minute, I am one of the few living beings in the huge universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jensthreads.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jensthreads.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jensthreads.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jensthreads.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jensthreads.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jensthreads.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/jensthreads.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jensthreads.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jensthreads.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jensthreads.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jensthreads.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}