{"id":757,"date":"2010-06-30T12:25:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T16:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/?p=757"},"modified":"2010-06-30T13:51:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T17:51:58","slug":"happy-birthday-rosie-%e2%80%93-sorry-there%e2%80%99s-oil-on-your-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/30\/happy-birthday-rosie-%e2%80%93-sorry-there%e2%80%99s-oil-on-your-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Rosie \u2013 Sorry There\u2019s Oil on your Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rosie<\/a>Rosie, my wife, has great energy. She runs barefoot each morning to the beach. She\u2019s braver than I. Returning to the house, this morning, her birthday, we discovered that the soles of her feet were coated with brown oil. Going again to the Dauphin Island Bird Sanctuary beach we verified that oil was washing ashore.<\/p>\n

Last post I shared about positive energy. Negative energy must be dealt with too. Oil on our beaches! Oil on our feet! Is this Happy Birthday? It\u2019s also my mother’s birthday who has passed from this life. Torrent rivers of feelings flow through our lives.<\/p>\n

In his book, Peace is Every Step<\/em>, Thich Nhat Hanh shares many ways to transform our negative energy. Here are some thoughts inspired from his book that work. Let\u2019s recognize our feelings and recognize their ultimate source, ourselves. Let\u2019s be real and one with our feelings, \u201cOil on my feet! Huge oil still coming! It\u2019s my birthday! I am so upset!\u201d Let\u2019s calm our storms, \u201cBreathing, calming myself, not getting overwhelmed, I am grateful for the valuable information my feelings give me.\u201d Let\u2019s call to mind what is encouraging in our lives and call to mind what needs to be fixed. Then, with great strength, let\u2019s embrace our capabilities and do what needs to be done.<\/p>\n

Each day is a new day. Each year is a new year. \u201cHappy Birthday, Rosie, let me help you get the oil off your feet!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rosie, my wife, has great energy. She runs barefoot each morning to the beach. She\u2019s braver than I. Returning to the house, this morning, her birthday, we discovered that the soles of her feet were coated with brown oil. Going … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,55,27,83],"tags":[86,85],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-real","category-encouragement","category-oil-spill","category-positive-energy","tag-peace-is-every-step","tag-thich-nhat-hanh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}