{"id":6649,"date":"2021-01-01T06:29:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T14:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6649"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:11:56","slug":"6649","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/6649\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking in Rain with Big Changes on My Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was barely light and I made my way down the beach as foam blew across my path. Rain fell. Much was on my mind as I contemplated the big changes in my life that are now underway. How will I fare? How will my father fare? Where am I going in my personal and creative life? What will it be like for a spell not living near the ocean after 23 years? What will I write in the coming days, weeks, months?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All will unfold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are always new, unforeseen and better opportunities when a calamity such as a pandemic, death or extinction of self occurs. Believe me, I know what I am talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I meandered I thought about the better opportunities that might be coming my way soon. Some are already arriving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For one thing, I can finally get a haircut from my on and off stylist since 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another thing: I will start playing tennis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet another thing: I will start riding a bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And still another thing: It will become so much easier taking a shower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was barely light and I made my way down the beach as foam blew across my path. Rain fell. Much was on my mind as I contemplated the big changes in my life that are now underway. How will I fare? How will my father fare? Where am I going in my personal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-of-walking-in-rain","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10395,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions\/10395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}