{"id":16,"date":"2007-09-18T04:24:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T12:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net?p=16"},"modified":"2007-09-18T04:24:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T12:24:28","slug":"celebrate-non-manifestation-of-anger-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate non-manifestation of anger day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was surprisingly un-angry, un-resentful, un-irritable. It was a highly-scheduled day&#8212;I think that when I&#8217;m doing, I&#8217;m not so apt to find comfort in the distraction of anger. I already have the distraction of busy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenjones.canyonlink.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/pistachetree.jpg\" title=\"pistachetree.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/pistachetree.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"pistachetree.jpg\" alt=\"pistachetree.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" \/><\/a>I was pretty much asleep-in-the-Zen-sense all day, caught up in my personal drama of doing, doing, doing. But there was a break after a job interview and before dinner with my goddaughter when I went to the plaza in Mill Valley. I bought a book and sat in the waning light, one of the last summer evenings. The sound of children laughing and crying, of parents talking, balls bouncing, and cars driving by mixed with the warmth of the sunshine on my face. I could see a Pistache tree, halfway between green and brilliant orange. It was a heart-wrenching external manifestation of the day, my life right now, and maybe life all the time. I go along thinking this is my life, and the next second, it&#8217;s something completely different.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing I remember being resentful about was when I fulfilled my commitment not to read while eating. I was angry at Ezra! It was all his fault I couldn&#8217;t do my normal, mechanical behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Ezra!<\/p>\n<p>Today I will be aware of borders. Like the border between summer and fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was surprisingly un-angry, un-resentful, un-irritable. It was a highly-scheduled day&#8212;I think that when I&#8217;m doing, I&#8217;m not so apt to find comfort in the distraction of anger. I already have the distraction of busy. I was pretty much asleep-in-the-Zen-sense all day, caught up in my personal drama of doing, doing, doing. But there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}