{"id":308,"date":"2017-10-24T13:01:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T16:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sleeperswake.com\/wordpress\/?p=308"},"modified":"2017-10-24T13:33:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T16:33:01","slug":"spartan-living-spaces-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sleeperswake.com\/wordpress\/spartan-living-spaces-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartan Living Spaces; Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-310\" src=\"http:\/\/sleeperswake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/One-Wild-and-Precious-Life.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sleeperswake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/One-Wild-and-Precious-Life.jpg 253w, http:\/\/sleeperswake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/One-Wild-and-Precious-Life-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/>I enjoyed this video, and I particularly like the saying on their back wall, not that I agree with it fully.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the parameters of the game of life: You have to choose because you really can&#8217;t do it all.<\/p>\n<p>The saying: &#8220;Tell me. . . what is it\u00c2\u00a0you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I found that this is from a poem:<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Summer Day<\/em><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Mary Oliver<\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Who made the world?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Who made the swan, and the black bear?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Who made the grasshopper?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>This grasshopper, I mean-<\/em><br \/>\n<em>the one who has flung herself out of the grass,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-<\/em><br \/>\n<em>who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know exactly what a prayer is.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down<\/em><br \/>\n<em>into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>which is what I have been doing all day.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tell me, what else should I have done?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t everything die at last, and too soon?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tell me, what is it you plan to do<\/em><br \/>\n<em>with your one wild and precious life?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>from\u00c2\u00a0New and Selected Poems, 1992<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Beacon Press, Boston, MA<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Copyright 1992 by Mary Oliver.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7sLQ-2rCdmw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You have to embrace change if you are to have the new and the different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed this video, and I particularly like the saying on their back wall, not that I agree with it fully.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the parameters of the game of life: You have to choose because you really can&#8217;t do it all. &hellip; 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